History, News and Stories of Repentigny, Québec, Canada

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• The seigniory of Repentigny was established in 1640.
  Certain officers of the Carignan regiment obtained concessions that would eventually bear their name (Berthier, Lavaltrie, La Noraye, etc.), and they become some of the first seigneur-entrepreneurs.
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• 1670 - Repentigny was founded in 1670 by Jean-Baptiste Le Gardeur, son of Seigneur Pierre Le Gardeur. During the town's first 250 years, Repentigny was only inhabited by a few hundred peasants, or habitants, and was an agricultural community.
  Repentigny was founded in 1670 by Jean-Baptiste Le Gardeur, but in fact the seigneury of Repentigny had existed since April 16, 1647. That year, his father, Pierre Le Gardeur, Sieur de Repentigny, born in Calvados and Admiral de the French fleet in New France, received in Paris the acts of the... Read MORE...
  
  
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• 1674 - Parish of La-Purifiation-de-la-Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie-de-Repentigny is established at Repentigny
  
  Le Programme de recherche en démographie historique - Univeriste de Montreal
  
• In 1677, the first population census only shows 30 inhabitants in Repentigny.
  
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• 1684 - Église de la Purification-de-la-Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie established in Repentigny
  
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• 1691 - Killed
  April: Point Aux Trembles is attacked, with thirty homes being burned. In retaliation, at Repentigny; a few miles down river, forty or more Iroquois are discovered sleeping and are killed. The captives are burned at the stake in Repentigny, Point Aux Trembles and Boucherville by the French. As ... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1718 - Pierre LeGardeur, son of Jean-Baptiste, granted many lands to settlers mainly from Pointe-aux-Trembles.
  
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• 1832 - The Parish of Repentigny or Notre Dame d l'Assomption (L'Assomption seigniory)
  is nearly in the shape of a Presq' Isle in the front of the fief; it extends to the S.W. limit of St. Sulpice, and is otherwise bounded by the rivers L'Assomption and St. Lawrence, including the settlers on the N. bank of the former river and Isle Bourdon at its mouth. All the lands in this P. are... Read MORE...
  
  
• However, until the beginning of the 20th century, Repentigny was only inhabited by a small group of peasants and the first municipality was not incorporated until July 1855. A century later, in 1957, the municipality was erected as a town.
  
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• 1859 - REPENTIGNY, a town of Lower Canada, in the district and 18 m. N. of Montreal, and co. of Leinster, on the l. bank of the St. Lawrence.
  
  A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Volume 6 Publisher A. Fullarton,
  
• 1873
  L'ASSOMPTION, a river of Quebec, takes its rise in the rear of Joliette co., and following a very serpentine course of over 100 miles through much rough and mountainous country, discharges itself into the St. Lawrence above the village of Repentigny, where the united waters of the Rivers Jesus and... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1895 - Repentigny
  Repentigny, reh-posteen'yee', a post-village in L'Assompption co., Quebec, on the St. Lawrence, 18 miles N.E. of Montreal. Pop. 300.
  Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
  
• 1906
  Repentigny, a post-village in L'Assomption co., Quebec, on the St. Lawrence, 18 miles NE. of Montreal. Pop. 100.
  Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906
  
• Repentigny
  Repentigny, Qué, City, pop 72 218 (based on the 2001c), 53 824 (1996c), 49 630 (1991c), area 61.77 km2, was created on 1 June 2002 by the amalgamation of the former cities of Repentigny (incorporated 1957) and LE GARDEUR. Repentigny is located 24 km northeast of MONTRÉAL where the Rivière... Read MORE...
  
  
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