Saint-Jerome

Sectors

Saint-Jerome was founded on January 1st, 2002 at the time of the Québécois municipal Réorganisations. The new town of Saint-Jerome is then the result of a fusion of the old towns of Bellefeuille, Lafontaine, Saint-Jerome and Saint-Antoine-of-Laurentides, which became thereafter of the sectors until a new definition of the limits of those.

Saint-Jerome (24 583)
Bellefeuille (14 066)
Saint-Antoine-of-Laurentides the (11 488)
Lafontaine (9 477)

History

The territory where the Town of Saint-Jerome is today was conceded in 1752 by the marquis of Jonquière, then governor of News-France, under the name of Augmentation in the seigniory of the Thousand-Islands. Between the beginning of the year 1760 and the beginning of the year 1840, the seigniory belonged to the families Dumont de Lefebvre de Bellefeuille, resident with Saint-Eustace, 25 km more in the south. These families conceded grounds with colonists come mainly from the northern area of Montreal. The embryo of village bore the name of Dumontville then. The catholic parish of Saint-Jerome was made up on November 15th, 1834 and the municipality of the village of Saint-Jerome was born on July 1st, 1845 by decree of the Metcalfe governor.

The priest Labelle François-Xavier-Antoine Labelle, the large colonizer of the North of Montreal, was in load of the pastoral administration of Saint-Jerome of 1868 until his death, in 1891. Eight years after its arrival, it had made a success of the enormous building firm of a railroad linking Saint-Jerome in Montreal.

Antoine Labelle was cleaned of Saint-Jerome during 22 years, of 1868 until his death, at the 57 years age, which have occurred on January 4th, 1891. It was called “the king of North, the apostle of colonization”, and it passes in the history like a giant of legend.

The opening of roads and the arrival of a railroad became essential with the development of the small communities. These transportation routes for the movement of the goods and the people would ensure the establishment of the trade and industry.

The Labelle priest was made the burning promoter of the idea of a railroad towards North since 1869, but he saw appearing the first Saint-Jerome engine only in 1876, and that partly because of the requirement out of firewood and construction for great urban centres like Montreal and Quebec

Origins of the name

Two assumptions are advanced as for the origin of the name of the city. Most widespread is that according to which the city bears the name of Saint Jerome, Jerome de Stridon, in Latin Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus, especially known for its translation of the Bible in Latin, the Vulgate. Born in Dalmatie (current Croatia) in 341 and died in Bethlehem into 420, one tells that he tamed a lion which accompanied it then everywhere where he went. Regarded as a Father of the Church by the Christians and recognized doctor of the Church to have given him the Vulgate (first integral translation of the Holy Scriptures in Latin), holy Jerome was often represented holding the stick of a cardinal and accompanied by a lion. These symbols are found today on the official armorial bearings of the city.

The other assumption evokes one of the first residents of the area, but its history is far from certain.

Armorial bearings of the city

Description

The armorial bearings of the Town of Saint-Jerome are of coped money azure, with dextral an iris crimson (of Quebec), with sinistral truncated a sand sinople pine, and in heart a gold lion holding a stick of same armed and lampassé with mouths; they constant are braided corn ears and sheets of maple to evoke the Labelle priest (these elements appeared in its armorial bearings), and stamped of a muraillée crown of the three towers characteristic of the dominant cities of an area, as proposed by the Company Héraldique of Canada, to indicate its statute of regional capital. They were conceived and carried out by Gleason Théberge and Ginette Robitaille, and were adopted in 1999 pennies the town hall of Marc Gascon.

Principal symbolic system

The armorial bearings of Saint-Jerome evoke mainly the various levels of membership of its population to territories. The Quebec, which had since 1963 an identified floral emblem as a flower of lily, is evoked here by the vareigated iris. By adopting Law 49, the government of Quebec put an end to the controversy and proclaimed that the vareigated iris became the official floral emblem of the Quebec. The use of this new emblem on the armorial bearings of Saint-Jerome probably constitutes a first. The Laurentides are among the few areas of the Quebec to be itself equipped with official armorial bearings. In Saint-Jerome, it is the District council of development which, in April 1998, made the choice use on a bottom evoking the Québécois flag and his four cantons of azure (blue) a stylized white pine evoking the wood turpentine formerly most widespread and still very present on the territory. The City itself, in the center of the ecu, is evoked by a Lion holding a episcopal stick gold on bottom azure. These elements evoke the owner even city, Saint Jerome.

The Lion is also associated with strength, the courage and the spirit of initiative, values with which Saint-Jerome is provided, as testifies its statute to it to city centers. The episcopal stick recalls moreover the diocese, whose évêché and its Cathédrale are in Saint-Jerome, thanks to the efforts of the priest Antoine Labelle, that some called the king of North. It will be noted besides that it is this character whom designate the sheets of maple and the Blé which support the ecu, since such were the armorial bearings which it had chosen when it was indicated protonotaire apostolic, in 1889.

Other aspects of the armorial bearings

One can also easily identify in azure predominance of the armorial bearings of Saint-Jerome an evocation of water, this river of the North which crosses it and which gave him its first resources formerly. One can also see in the gold of the lion the light of the summer, the autumn in the crimson of the iris, spring in the green of the pine and the winter in the money of the bottom of the two points. Braided corn ears and maple sheets appeared in the armorial bearings of the Labelle priest. Lastly, the currency “By our will” is the assertion by the citizens of their faith in their capacities and their determination to work their history.

Source: Official site of the town of Saint-Jerome

Transport

The intermodal Station Saint-Jerome of bus and train is located at 455, boul. Jean-Baptist-Roland E., in Saint-Jerome, between the streets Wilfrid and Latour. In addition to giving access to the bus sailing inside Saint-Jerome, the station allows a rail link and by coach with Montreal and the cities of low the Laurentides. Coaches towards Mount-Trembling and the Abitibi-Témiscamingue make there also stopover.

Sports

Saint-Jerome accommodated the Jeux of Quebec during the winter 1987, which allowed him, inter alia, to add estrades to the plates of the entertaining center of physical education and sports (CREPS) in general-purpose the Saint-Jerome, today the greatest sporting center of the city. In April 2007, Saint-Jerome received the championship of the Coupe Fred Page (final of hockey junior of the east of the Canada), which joins together the champion of the Seaboard provinces, of the Quebec and the Ontario, in addition to the hostess team.

Panthers of Saint-Jerome

The team of a whole area was born in 1990-1991 whereas the area of Laval Laurentides accommodated this concession. Since, the Panthers initially evolved/moved in Saint-Anthony before moving with the arena Melançon (Saint-Jerome), on the street of the same name, where they evolve/move today.

Railwaymen of Saint-Jerome

The sporting teams of the Cégep of Saint-Jerome, called the Railwaymen, belong to the elite of the collegial sport in Quebec. Particularly, the team of female hockey of gauge AA dominated the league while being declared champion in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006, before inclining in 2007 by a point in front of Dawson]. She in gained more twice, for this period, the Whodunnit Bear Tournament, international tournament disputed with [[Connecticut]], [[the United States]]. ==Jérômiens célèbres== * [[Antoine Labelle]] (1833-1891), priest and person in charge of the colonization of Laurentides *L' écrivaine [[German Guèvremont]]; *Le humorous duet '' [[the Denis Drolet]] ''; *L' stimulating [[Jean-Rene Dufort]] ('' Infoman ''); *Le singer [[Georges Thurston|Georges Thurston known as '' Black Boule '']] ([[1951]] - [[2007]]). ==Évêché== * [[Diocese of Saint-Jerome]]
== Municipalités bordering == {{Localization city |Nord-Ouest= [[Holy-Anne-of-Lakes (Quebec)|Holy-Anne-of-lakes]] |city nord= [[Prévost (Quebec)|Prévost]] |Nord-Est= |ouest= city [[Mille-Isles]] |principale=Saint-Jérôme city |city est= [[Holy-Sophie (Quebec)|Holy-Sophie]] |Sud-Ouest= [[Saint-Colomban (Quebec)|Saint-Colomban]] |city sud= [[Mirabel (city)|Mirabel]] |Sud-Est= |enclave= }} == Sources == To *Auclair, Elie-J., Saint-Jerome de Terrebonne, Printing works J.H.A. Labelle, 1934, pages 13-35. * [http://www.mamr.gouv.qc.ca/repertoire_mun/repertoire/repertoi.asp Repertory of the municipalities of Quebec] * [http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/topos/topos.html Commission of toponymy of Quebec] * [http://www.mamr.gouv.qc.ca/organisation/orga_cart_regi.asp municipal Businesses and areas - regional charts] == external Liens == * {{Fr}} [http://www.vsj.ca Official site of the Town of Saint-Jerome] * {{Fr}} [http://www.cegep-st-jerome.qc.ca/ Cégep of Saint-Jerome] {{Gate Quebec}} [[Category: City of Quebec]] [[of: Saint-Jerome]] [[in: Saint-Jerome, Quebec]] [[hu: Saint-Jerome]] [[nl: Saint-Jerome]] [[Pt: Saint-Jerome]] [[vo: Saint-Jerome

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