Saint-Liboire, Quebec

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Saint-Liboire
Country	Canada
Province	Québec
Municipality status	Town
Geographic code	54072
Constitution date	1994
Mayor Current term of office	Sylvain Gauvreau 2005-
Latitude Longitude	45° 38' 57" North 72° 45' 31" West
Land area	72.90 km²
Population	2,860 inhab. (2001)
Density	39,23 inhab./km²
People	Liboirois, Liboiroise

Saint-Liboire (or St-Liboire-de-Bagot) is a town in the municipalité régionale de comté des Maskoutains in Québec (Canada), located in the administrative region of Montérégie.

[edit] History

Before the foundation of Saint-Liboire, the actual town territory was included in the Seigneurie de Ramezay given to Claude de Ramezay near 1710.

The village was founded in 1857 with the purpose to offer more arable lands to the Catholic colonists coming from the Saint-Hyacinthe region.

It became the chief town of Bagot County.

[edit] Reading Suggestion

Historians will be fascinated by the book Centenaire de Saint-Liboire, 20-24 juin 1957 : album-souvenir, 1857-1957 written by Dollard Boucher and Armand Laliberté. This book is available at the Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec.