Country Canada Constituted September 15, 1927 Postal code(s) G0E 1K0 Area 142.1 km² Local time Saturday 6:38 AM | Settled 1842 Time zone EST (UTC−5) Area code(s) 418 and 581 Population 1,137 (2011) Province Québec | |
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Weather -9°C, Wind SW at 6 km/h, 89% Humidity RCMs Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine, La Côte-de-Gaspé Regional County Municipality | ||
Grande-Vallée is a municipality in the Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of the province of Quebec in Canada.
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Its name (French for "Great Valley") describes its location in a large fertile valley through which the Grand Vallée River flows.
History
In 1691, Governor General Frontenac granted the area to François Hazeur, a prosperous merchant from Quebec City. The seignory, called La Grande-Vallée-des-Monts, stretched from Rivière-Magdeleine Seignory in the west to the Saint-Hélier portage in the east. It was inherited by Hazeur's son-in-law, Michel Sarrazin, a surgeon, biologist, and doctor of the King.
In September 1758, the Wolfe's troop chatched a French at Grande-Vallée. It's te deportation of Gaspésie.
Grande-Vallée was founded in 1842. Alexis Caron, of Saint-Thomas-de-Montmagny, his wife Angélique Frigault and his kids, ...
No colonization took place until the 1830s, when fishermen of Saint-Thomas-de-Montmagny occupied the place during the summer. In 1842, Alexis Caron and his family, also from Saint-Thomas-de-Montmagny, became the first permanent settlers. In 1846, the mission of Saint-François-Xavier-de-Grande-Vallée was founded. In 1872, the post office opened.
In 1927, the village was incorporated as a parish municipality, with Arthur S. Fournier as first mayor, although its status as parish municipality was not officially recognized until 1995. In 2005, Grande-Vallée changed its status from parish municipality to just municipality.
Communities
The following locations reside within the municipality's boundaries:
Lakes & Rivers
The following waterways pass through or are situated within the municipality's boundaries: