Metabetchouan

Metabetchouan is a city in Quebec, Canada, in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region. The city comprises of the populace focuses of Metabetchouan, on the shores of Lac Saint-Jean at the mouth of the little Couchepaganiche River, and Lac-a-la-Croix, a couple of kilometers toward the east on Cross Lake. Generally the region of the indigenous Innu, the principal European, Jesuit Jean de Quen, visited the place in 1647, trailed by Charles Albanel in 1671, amid the gathering of twenty Indian countries. After five years in 1676, an exchanging post and mission were built up there.

Be that as it may, genuine colonization just started after the decree of Metabetchouan Township in 1857, and the principal pilgrims touched base from the South Shore and Bagotville in 1861. That equivalent year, Stanislas Drapeau detailed the nearness of 154 individuals including 36 "savages" in Metabetchouan Township. The place was first called Saint-Jerome, out of appreciation for Jerome Demers, vicar general of the Bishop of Quebec. In 1870, it was about crushed by an incredible fire, that just saved exactly twenty houses. In 1872, the Parish Municipality of Saint-Jerome was shaped, and in 1898, the town itself isolated and was consolidated as the Village Municipality of Saint-Jerome.