Language

Residents whose sole native language was French numbered 5,550 (96%), while those with only English as their first language were 60 (1%), 75 people (1%) had another language as their mother tongue and 50 people (0.9%) counted both French and English as their first language.

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!colspan="19"|Canada Census Mother Tongue - Verchères, Quebec

Notable people

  • Jean Blouf, pioneer of Verchères
  • Joseph Coulon de Jumonville whose death while a prisoner of George Washington ignited the French and Indian War theater of the Seven Years' War
  • Louis Coulon de Villiers who is the only officer to whom Washington ever surrendered.
  • François Coulon de Villiers another of the Coulon brothers who would later be Alcalde of New Orleans, Louisiana (New Spain)
  • Bernard Landry former Premier of Quebec .
  • Lynda Lemay, songwriter and singer.
  • Calixa Lavallée, composer of O Canada.
  • Pierre Bouchard, Montreal Canadiens retired former professional hockey player.
  • Alexandre Beaudoin, fingerprint scientist
  • Joseph Bailly, fur trader and first permanent Euro-American settler in northwest Indiana. His homestead is a part of Indiana Dunes National Park.

Panorama

See also

  • List of municipalities in Quebec

References

  • Official site of Verchères

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