Saint-Télesphore
See also: Télesphore
Saint-Télesphore is a municipality of parish in the regional Municipalité of county of Vaudreuil-Soulanges to the Quebec (Canada), located in the administrative area of the Montérégie.
History
About the years 1800, the first Européens arrived of Scotland, of Ireland as well as England. Those, at that time, named the places like River-Delisle, Lake-Saint-François or River-with-Beaudet, because of the proximity in the south of the River-Beaudette.
A few years later, Saint-Télesphore belonged to the News-Longueuil, which correspond today to the territories of the municipalities of the Coteaux, Saint-Polycarpe, Saint-Zotique, Saint-Télesphore and River-Beaudette. Detached from Saint-Polycarpe in 1858, it is finally in 1876 that it becomes a parish with whole share, and the following year in 1877 took place its foundation.
At a certain time is about 1829, one knew it like Montjoy or Saint-Télesphore-of-Montjoie. In 1881, work started for the construction of the church and finished one year later is in 1882. The inhabitants of Saint-Télesphore were famous in the past for the manufacture of the Potasse because of the deforestation and the cleaning of the ground supporting this product. The Agriculture account still today, for a good portion of the local activities.
As for its name, it was allotted to Télesphore, pope of the 2nd century.
Today, it gathers the localities of Dalhousie Station as Dalhousie Mills which form integral part of Saint-Télesphore.