Boucherville, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Famille-de-Boucherville)
1832 - BOUCHERVILLE,

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 settled parts of the S. - All the lands in this S. were conceded prior to 1759, and have been subdivided among a great number of inheritors, whose mode of concession has not been uniform, nor have their conditions, rents, &c., been equal; for the particulars of these differences it would be necessary to examine the contracts of each fief. - The village of Boucherville is most agreeable and conveniently seated on the bank of the river St. Lawrence: it contains from 90 to 100 houses, a church and parsonage-house, a chapel and a convent or rather a residence for two or three of the sisters of the congregation of Notre Dame at Montreal, who ware sent here from the chief establishment as missionaries for the education of females. There is likewise a school for boys. In this place many families, who still retain some of the titles of the ancient noblesse of the country, have fixed their residence and formed a society, in which much of the ceremony and etiquette that used to characterise the titled circles of the French nation is still observable; diminished indeed in splendour, but unabated in precision. Many of these residents have built some very good-looking houses, rendered rather conspicuous by forming a strong contrast with the major part of those belonging to the other inhabitants, which are by no means calculated to attract notice, for symmetry and proportion seem to have been as much set at defiance in their construction as regularity has been neglected in the laying out of the streets. This omission, however, detracts little or nothing from the general amenity of the situation...

Statistics of the Parish of Boucherville
Population 2,800
Churches, R.C. 1
Curates 1
Presbyteries 1
Convents 1
Schools 1
Villages 1
Corn-mills 2
Just. of Peace 2
Medical men 3
Notaries 2
Shopkeepers 2
Taverns 2
Artisans 21

A Topographical Dictionary of The Province of Lower Canada by Joseph Bouchette, Esq., London, 1832

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