Saint Jerome

Saint-Jerome is a suburban metropolis located approximately 60 kilometres northwest of Montreal at the Riviere du Nord. The town is a gateway to the Laurentian Mountains and its resorts thru the Autoroute des Laurentides. The metropolis is known as after Saint Jerome, a church father pleasant known as the translator of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Latin. His translation is referred to as the Vulgate. The territory wherein the prevailing city of Saint-Jerome now stands become granted in 1752 by way of the marquis de l. A.

Jonquiere, governor of New France, because the seignory of Augmentation des Mille-Iles. From the 1760s to the 1840s, the seignory became owned with the aid of the Dumont and Lefebvre de Bellefeuille households, residing inside the metropolis of Saint-Eustache, 25 kilometers to the south. The Dumont and the Lefebvre conceded the farmland to colonists coming in most cases from the vicinity lying north of Montreal. The rising city become then known beneath the name of Dumontville. The Catholic parish of Saint-Jerome turned into constituted on November 15, 1834 and the village itself became constituted on July 1, 1845 through governor Metcalfe.