Beaupre

Beaupre is a ville inside the Canadian province of Quebec, located in La Cote-de-Beaupre Regional County Municipality. The city is alongside the Saint Lawrence River and Route 138 at the mouth of the Sainte-Anne-du-Nord River. Mont-Sainte-Anne, the highest snowboarding station within the japanese part of Canada, is placed in Beaupre. It additionally one of the metropolis's major recreation points of interest. The region has been inhabited seeing that the beginning of the New France colony.

In the seventeenth century, Breton sailors, when touchdown on the coastal plains, apparently exclaimed: "Oh! Le beau pre". The fused form of Beaupre has been in use since as a minimum 1636 when the Beaupre Company turned into hooked up. Its parish shaped out of of the oldest parishes of Quebec, Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre and Saint-Joachim. In 1928, the vicinity was incorporated as the Parish Municipality of Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire but its name changed into modified to Beaupre that identical 12 months which will keep away from confusion with numerous other namesake parishes. In 1962, the parish municipality received metropolis fame and became Ville de Beaupre.