Lac-Etchemin, Quebec

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The Municipality of Lac-Etchemin is a village of 3,800 people in the Les Etchemins Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada and is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches administrative region. It is the county seat of the RCM. Lac-Etchemin takes its name from the Etchemin Lake which is right in the centre of the village.

Lac-Etchemin is the home of the Mont Orignal, a winter resort.

[edit] History

The area near the Etchemin Lake was first described in writing by the surveyor William Henderson in 1828. A few years later, in 1835, the region sees its first settler, Sir Randolph Routh, who buys 9,000 acres (36 km²) of land.

Municipality of Lac-Etchemin was created in 2001 by the merger of the City of Lac-Etchemin and the Parish of Sainte-Germaine-du-Lac-Etchemin.