Les Cèdres, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Soulanges Les Cedres)
1832 - The Village of the Cedars (Soulange seigniory),

is charmingly seated on the bank of the St. Lawrence, 5 miles from Pointe des Cascades, being the point of rendezvous for all boats passing up or down the river, and, having an established ferry to the opposite seigniory of Beauharnois, it is a place of great resort both for travellers and traders. - This pleasant village contains a well built church and about 150 houses, of which 6 are built with stone, and there are a school and two corn-mills; the mill, called Longueuil's Mill, has ground 6,500 bushels of grain in 4 months. - The appearance of the waters and of the rich and verdant island around which they wind their course, exhibits an assemblage uncommonly interesting, and the glistening rapids of the Coteau du Lac give a lively termination to the scene. - At Pointe des Cascades, where the steamboat lands passengers, are a few houses and stores and a convenient corn-mill. The canal traverses the point through which boats pass to avoid the Cascade Rapids. Here stages are daily in readiness to receive the passengers fro the steamers to convey them to the Village of the Cedars...

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

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