Holy-Therese

Holy-Therese is a Ville in the regional Municipalité of county (MRC) of Therese-In Blainville with the Quebec (Canada), located in the administrative area of the Laurentides. It was recently classified with the third rank of the cities best managed in Quebec.

The church Holy-Therese-in Avila is chapeautée there by highest Clocher of Canada.

History

September 23rd, 1683, in recognition of its military services, Joseph-Antoine Febvre of the Bar (governor of the News-France) concedes the Seigniory of the Thousand-Islands in Michel-Sidrac Dugué de Boisbriand. The exploitation of the Seigniory of 9 square miles begins in 1714 when Marie-Therese Dugué de Boisbriand and her husband Charles Piot de Langloiserie take possession of the Seigniory. In 1715, Langloiserie decides and his wife, not having energy to deal with the work of colonization of the grounds, leaves the Seigniory to the abandonment.

It is necessary to wait in 1743 whereas Suzanne de Langloiserie and her husband Jean-Baptiste Céloron de Blainville take possession of the grounds. October 15th, 1789, Marie-Anne Therese de Blainville, to which it Seigniory of Blainville was bequeathed jointly with his/her sister Marie-Hypolite de Blainville, inaugurates the Parish Holy-Therese-with Avila.

June 1st, 1849, the Village of Holy-Therese is born following a request of Louis Marteau, Paul Filiatrault and Joseph-Benjamin Lachaîne with the Council of the parishes of the county of Terrebonne. The Village will become officially a City in 1916.

Arts and culture

The dynamic personality and the uncontested regional leadership arts culture naturally led Holy-Therese to retain the slogan " Town of arts and culture".

Holy-Therese has of equipment and artistic and cultural infrastructures major: a public library of high gauge, a famous programme of collegial level in theater and music, schools with musical vocation, a school festival of Arts, an art gallery, a choral society of international reputation, an arts center and an important regional room of spectacles coldly renovated.

Cultural heritage

Museum Joseph-Filion
Theater Lionel-Groulx
House Lachaîne
Center of visual arts J. Olindo Gratton
Public library
Place of the Village
Arts center and Community Therese de Blainville

Pacts of friendship

In 1987 the Town of Holy-Therese signed a pact of friendship with Annecy (Haute-Savoie, France) and in 1994, with Lagoa (archipelago of the the Azores, Portugal).

Mayors

Joseph-Benjamin Lachaîne, 1855-1859
Victor Leguerrier, 1859-1862
Victor Leguerrier, 1868-1880
Dr. Hormisdas Deschambault, 1908-1915
Charles-Henri Robillard
Isidore Verschelden
Ovila Hogue
J. - Damien Filiatrault
J. - Albert Filiatrault
Amédée Dion, 1946-1951
Gustave Desjardins, 1951-1966
Gerard Julien, 1966-1970
Jean-Claude Blais, 1970-?
Élie Been necessary, 1987-2005
Marc Laporte, 2005 (interim)
Sylvie Surprising, 2005 -

August 1st

Personalities born in Holy-Therese

Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Prime Minister for Quebec
Paul-Emile Charbonneau, bishop of Hull
Joseph-Olindo Gratton, sculptor
Louise Harel, Appointed E of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
Felix Lachance, Card player (battles)

Municipalities bordering

Sources

municipal Card (Repertory of the municipalities of the government of Quebec)
Commission of toponymy of Quebec
municipal Businesses and areas - regional charts

Internal bonds

Seminar of Holy-Therese
College Lionel-Groulx

External bonds

Official site Holy-Therese
Company of history and genealogy of the Thousand-Islands

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