Pointe-Fortune, Quebec

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Pointe-Fortune ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is a municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada, on the Ottawa River (Rivière des Outaouais) in Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality, northwest of Montreal. The population at the 2021 Census was 582.

Geography

Pointe-Fortune is located on the right bank of the Ottawa River close to the Lake of Two Mountains. The locality borders the Ontario border, near the Carillon hydroelectric generating station. The municipality is located 65 km west of Montreal. Its territory is bounded to the west by the township of East Hawkesbury (Ontario) in the united counties of Prescott and Russell, to the north by the bay of Rigaud, to the east and to the south by the city of Rigaud. On the opposite shore of the lake of Two Mountains is the municipality of Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, in the Regional County Municipality of Argenteuil, in the Laurentides region.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The total area of the municipality is 9.54km2, with 8.09km2 being terrestrial.<ref name="mamrot" />

Pointe-Fortune is in the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands and its terrain is flat. The altitude is 24m on the shore of the Lake of Two Mountains and rises to 48m at the southeastern end of the territory. The low ground levels create several wetlands inland. The soil of Pointe-Fortune consists in the eastern part of a sector dating from the Cambrian composed of sandstone, conglomerate, limestone and dolomite (Potsdam sandstone, Brador and Forteau formations) and, in its western part, of an area of dolomite and sandstone from the Lower Ordovician (Beekmantown group and Romaine formation).

History

The area was part of the Seigneury of Rigaud, granted in 1732 to the brothers Pierre and François-Pierre Rigaud de Vaudreuil. Around 1750, they operated a trading post on a point in the Ottawa River, which later became known as Pointe Fortune. The name "Fortune" could refer to Colonel William Fortune who had received a Template:Convert concession in nearby Chatham Township at the end of the 18th century, or to Joseph Fortune, an early 19th century militiaman and surveyor.<ref name="toponymie"/>

The municipality was formerly called Petites-Écorces and Petit-Carillon (referring to the larger Carillon directly across the Ottawa River), but in 1851, the post office opened under the English name of Point Fortune (modified to its current name in 1954).<ref name="toponymie"/> In 1880, the Village Municipality of Pointe-Fortune was created out of territory ceded by Sainte-Madeleine-de-Rigaud.<ref name=mairesduquebec/>In 2023, the village of Pointe-Fortune became a Municipality. <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Demographics

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Attractions

Macdonell-Williamson House,<ref>Maison Macdonell-Williamson House</ref> which owes its existence to the fur trade and the Voyageurs, is located just west of the historical boundary marker, which still stands and marked the division between Upper and Lower Canada.

The Parish of Saint-François-Xavier-de-Pointe-Fortune celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2004.<ref name="toponymie"/> The municipality was originally served by the Catholic parish of St. Francois Xavier, established in 1904, which eventually closed on December 24, 2014. The church was sold and is now privately owned.

Local government

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• John William Crosb (1880–1881, 1882–1883)
• Ernest A. Saint-Denis (1881–1882)
• George Augustus Barclay (1883–1884)
• André Roy (1884–1887)
• William Richard Hunsley (1887–1893)
• Joseph Séguin (1893–1895)
• John Middleton (1895–1899)
• William Brown (1899–1913, 1914–1917)
• Angus Victor Mc Lachlan (1913–1914)
• Eric Galt Brown (1917–1923)
• Joseph Elie Dicaire (1923–1927)
• Joseph Nephtalie Corbeil (1927–1933)
• Joseph Adelard Jean Marie Desjardins (1933–1936)
• Joseph Raoul Lafond (1936–1951, 1961–1964)
• Joseph Héliodore Oscar Labrie (1951–1959)
• Joseph-Paul-Réal Larocque (1959–1961)
• Joseph Wellie Leon Sabourin (1964–1969)
• Joseph Bernard Roméo Séguin (1969–1973)
• Joseph Raoul Juste Gérard Parson (1973–1979)
• Joseph Paul-Emile Roger Pharand (1979–1980)
• Joseph Denis Grégoire Labonté (1980–2001)
• Joseph Roger Gérard Normand Chevrier (2001–2005)
• David Eugene Doughty (2005–2009)
• Jean-Pierre Daoust (2009–2017)
• François Bélanger (2017–present)

Education

Commission Scolaire des Trois-Lacs operates Francophone schools.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• École de l'Épervière in Rigaud<ref>"Liste des bassins desservis par les écoles en 2017-2018." Commission Scolaire des Trois-Lacs. Retrieved 30 September 2017.</ref>

Lester B. Pearson School Board operates Anglophone schools.<ref>"School Board Map Template:Webarchive." Lester B. Pearson School Board. Retrieved 28 September 2017.</ref>

• Soulanges Elementary School in Saint-Télesphore or Evergreen Elementary and Forest Hill Elementary (Junior Campus and Senior campus) in Saint-Lazare

See also

• List of anglophone communities in Quebec
• List of municipalities in Québec

External links

• Official website