History of Boucherville, Québec, Canada

Boucherville, Qué, pop 36 253 (2001c), 34 989 (1996c), incorporated as a city in 1957, is now a borough of the new city of Longueuil, created in January 2002 by the amalgamation of 8 distinct municipalities. Boucherville stretches for 7 km along the South Shore of the St Lawrence River connected to Montréal by the tunnel-bridge Louis-Hippolyte-Lafontaine (1967).

Boucherville is one of the oldest municipalities in Québec. In 1668, Pierre Boucher began farming in the area and 4 years later received his seigneury, consisting of Îles-Percées and the adjacent islands. Boucher secured the community against Iroquois attack by constructing a palisade. In 1843 a tragic fire destroyed almost the entire village. In 1856, Boucherville divided into 2 distinct municipalities: village and parish. In 1956, the parish lots with frontage on the St Lawrence River rejoined the village and a year later Boucherville was incorporated as a city. In 1963, the remaining territory of the municipality of the...

The Thermometer was 25 degrees below zero, at Boucherville, Canada, on the 15th inst.

seigniory, on the S. side of the St. Lawrence is in the co. of Chambly; bounded W. by the fief Tremblay, E. by the S. of Varennes and by Montarville in the rear. 114 arpents in front by two leagues in depth. Granted, 3d Nov. 1672, to Seiur Boucher and now belongs to Madame Boucherville. - The quality of the land, if not of the first class, is far above mediocrity, being for the most part a lightish mould inclining towards sand, and, with careful husbandry, by no means deficient in fertility. Nearly the whole is under cultivation, and generally produces very good average crops of all sorts. - The wood remaining is inconsiderable in quantity and only of inferior kinds. - Two small rivulets that fall into the St. Lawrence partially water this S. towards the front, one of which works the seignorial mill. There is no stream in the lower part. - A main road leads from the village of Boucherville to the Richelieu and thence to Chambly: several other roads, well kept up, pass through all the...

At Boucherville, the fashionable watering place of Lower Canada, fifteen miles from Montreal, the mercury, on Sunday last stood in the shade, at 94 degrees.

At the late fire at Boucherville, near Montreal, 52 houses, besides other buildings, were destroyed. Before the fire, it was one of the prettiest villages on the banks of the St. Lawrence.

Republican Farmer
Connecticut
June 27, 1843


From the Montreal Herald of Wednesday.

It is our melancholy duty to record one of the most disastrous events which Providence sees fit to direct against the works of man. The village of Boucherville, which stand about ten miles below Montreal, on the opposite side of the river, and contained a population of over a thousand souls, is no longer in existance. Yesterday morning the bright sun rose upon its happy dwellings, and its cheerful looking spires; at night be set, but the wretched inhabitants wept in anguish over the ashes of their homes.

The village was built on the right bank of the St. Lawrence, fronting the river for about a mile, and four principal streets ran back to the rear. There may have been about two hundred houses, most of...