Saint-Gabriel-Lalemant, Quebec
Encyclopedia
Saint-Gabriel-Lalemant is a municipality
in the Canadian
province of Quebec
, located in the Kamouraska Regional County Municipality
. The municipality is named for St. Gabriel Lalemant
, one of the Canadian Martyrs
.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in the Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
province of Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, located in the Kamouraska Regional County Municipality
Kamouraska Regional County Municipality, Quebec
Kamouraska is a regional county municipality in eastern Quebec, Canada. Regional County municipality seat is Saint-Pascal. The other main town is La Pocatière, Quebec....
. The municipality is named for St. Gabriel Lalemant
Gabriel Lallemant
Saint Gabriel Lalemant was a Jesuit missionary and one of the eight Canadian Martyrs....
, one of the Canadian Martyrs
Canadian Martyrs
The North American Martyrs, also known as the Canadian Martyrs or the Martyrs of New France, were eight Jesuit missionaries from Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, who were martyred in the mid-17th century in Canada, in what are now southern Ontario and upstate New York, during the warfare between the...
.
Municipal council
- Mayor: Raymond Chouinard
- Councillors: Alain Danjou, Jean-Yves Danjou, Michel Larose, Marc-André Lévesque, Denis Milliard, Jean-Paul Milliard