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Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain () is a municipality of 482 people in the
Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality Les Chenaux (, meaning ''the channels'' in French) is a regional county municipality in central Quebec, Canada, in the Mauricie region. The seat is in Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes. It is located adjacent on the east of Trois-Rivières on the Saint Lawr ...
, in Quebec, Canada. It is the smallest municipality in terms of population in the regional county. Before September 4, 2010, it was known simply as Saint-Prosper, on that date, the municipality of the parish of Saint-Prosper became the municipality of Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain.


History

Around the Natal Church Bell Tower, historical notes on the parish of Saint-Prosper
« ... Et cependant que de progrès déjà accomplis au milieu de vous, non-seulement sous le rapport religieux; mais encore pour la vie matérielle ! Au dire de connaisseurs, vous êtes de tout mon diocèse les plus avancés en agriculture et en industrie laitière. Vos champs se couvrent d'abondantes moissons, malgré les intempéries des saisons et quelquefois les oppositions persistantes du sol; vos troupeaux ravissent les prix aux expositions; et vos produits laitiers, exportés par des vôtres sur les marchés étrangers, en rapportent de notables bénéfices. Aussi l'aisance est générale à Saint- Prosper, et c'est à peine si on y trouve assez de nécessiteux, pour sauvegarder la parole de Notre-Seigneur; ''Pauperes enim semper habetis vobis'' (Jean-12-8) » — F-X. Ev : des Trois-Rivières. Evêché des Trois- Rivières, 21 novembre 1908.
The area opened up for colonization in the middle of the 19th century, and in 1850 the Parish of Saint-Prosper was established out of the territories of Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan and Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade. It was named after
Prosper of Aquitaine Prosper of Aquitaine (; – AD), also called ''Prosper Tiro'', was a Christian writer and disciple of Augustine of Hippo, and the first continuator of Jerome's Universal Chronicle. Particularly, Prosper is identified with the (later) axiom ''� ...
possibly by Bishop Joseph Signay who wanted to emphasize the "prosperity" of the first settlers, who were poor but brave. In 1853, its post office opened, and two years later, the Parish Municipality of Saint-Prosper was formed, with Augustin Massicotte as first mayor. In 1861, Saint-Prosper had 1028 inhabitants, and at the start of 1900, there were nearly 1500 persons. On December 31, 2001, it was transferred from the Francheville Regional County to the new Les Chenaux Regional County, following the creation of the new City of Trois-Rivières and the dissolution of the Francheville RCM. Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain St. Lawrence Lowlands"> File:Circuit 2008 018.jpg, Bike tour, activity organized by the Recreation Committee, rue de l'Église File:Cimetiere_St_Prosper_015.jpg, Catholic parish cemetery, rue de l'Église File:Rue Principale, lumières hivernales.jpg, March 2008, rue Principale ( Quebec road 159), File:Rang St Charles 005.jpg, Rural and agricultural zone, rang Saint-Charles File:Oies blanches 011a.jpg, Alte of a flock of snow geese, chemin des Trente-Trois File:Cordon d en bas 001.jpg, alt=Cordon d'en bas, Harvest, chemin du Cordon, drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...
"> File:Laurentides_022.jpg, A la Barbotte Lake, source of Gendron Creek, Laurentians, access by Route des Prairies File:Sentier_transcanadien_021.jpg, Cossette Creek, tributary of Gendron Creek, under the Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain Bridge (
Trans Canada Trail The Trans Canada Trail is a cross-Canada system of greenways, waterways, and roadways that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, Pacific to the Arctic Ocean, Arctic oceans. The trail extends over ; it is now the longe ...
) File:Ruisseau_Gendron_015.jpg, Gendron Creek, tributary of Charest River, from bridge P-17092, Chemin Saint-Édouard File:Riviere_Charest_Saint-Prosper_003.jpg,
Charest River The Charest River originates from Charest Lake in the Montauban-les-Mines area, located in the eastern part of Notre-Dame-de-Montauban, within the Mekinac Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Mauricie in the province of Q ...
, tributary of
Sainte-Anne River Sainte-Anne River (Les Chenaux), Teyaiar River ( Huron Wendat), rivière Sainte-Anne (French), flows from north to south on the north shore in the estuary section of the St. Lawrence River, in Les Chenaux, Portneuf and La Jacques-Cartier R ...
, from bridge TR-2/TR-1, Route Fraser File:1900_rang_St_Augustin.jpg, 1900, Farm Claïr Massicotte and Éléonore(Élée) Trudel, some of their 11 or 12 children, horses, dog and wheel, rang Saint-Augustin File:1940_rue_Principale_001_3445_2110.jpg, 1940, private residences,
general store A general merchant store (also known as general merchandise store, general dealer, village shop, or country store) is a rural or small-town store that carries a general line of merchandise. It carries a broad selection of merchandise, someti ...
,
gas station A filling station (also known as a gas station [] or petrol station []) is a facility that sells fuel and engine lubricants for motor vehicles. The most common fuels sold are gasoline (or petrol) and diesel fuel. Fuel dispensers are used to ...
, Principale Street (
Quebec Route 159 Provincial Highway 159 (or Route 159) is a two-lane highway on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. Its northern terminus is in Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac at the junction of Route 155, and the southern terminus is at the ju ...
) File:1940_rue_Principale_3445_2210.jpg, 1940, Main Street (Quebec Route 159),
dirt road A dirt road or track is a type of unpaved road not paved with asphalt, concrete, brick, or stone; made from the native material of the land surface through which it passes, known to highway engineers as subgrade material. Terminology Simi ...
s, boardwalks, intersection of Route de l'Église File:Pont_Saint_Prosper_de_Champlain_001.jpg, Former railway line ( CN) converted to the
Trans Canada Trail The Trans Canada Trail is a cross-Canada system of greenways, waterways, and roadways that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, Pacific to the Arctic Ocean, Arctic oceans. The trail extends over ; it is now the longe ...
, Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain Bridge, over Cossette Creek File:Corvee_bois_chauffage_052.jpg, 2020, time and wood donated each year (
corvée Corvée () is a form of unpaid forced labour that is intermittent in nature, lasting for limited periods of time, typically only a certain number of days' work each year. Statute labour is a corvée imposed by a state (polity), state for the ...
), by parishioners, for the heating of the church, rue de l'Église


Geography

The territory of Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain is mainly part of the
Sainte-Anne River Sainte-Anne River (Les Chenaux), Teyaiar River ( Huron Wendat), rivière Sainte-Anne (French), flows from north to south on the north shore in the estuary section of the St. Lawrence River, in Les Chenaux, Portneuf and La Jacques-Cartier R ...
watershed. However, a small area to the west, bordering Saint-Stanislas and
Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan () is a parish municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada. This municipality is part of the Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality in Batiscanie and in the administrative region of M ...
, is part of the
Batiscanie Batiscanie, a vernacular name, of a territory located in the Mauricie region, divided between the RCMs of Les Chenaux, Portneuf and Mékinac, in Quebec, Canada. The name Batiscanie evokes, without geopositioning it, the territory of the Bati ...
region. The
Charest River The Charest River originates from Charest Lake in the Montauban-les-Mines area, located in the eastern part of Notre-Dame-de-Montauban, within the Mekinac Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Mauricie in the province of Q ...
crosses the eastern part of the municipality from north-east to south-east.


Demographics


Population

Population trend:Statistics Canada:
1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
,
2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
,
2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...
,
2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
,
2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
,
2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
census * Population in 2021: 482 (2016 to 2021 population change: -9.1%) * Population in 2016: 530 * Population in 2011: 505 * Population in 2006: 541 * Population in 2001: 531 * Population in 1996: 548 * Population in 1991: 584 * Population in 1986: 628 * Population in 1981: 663 * Population in 1976: 797 * Population in 1971: 886 * Population in 1966: 999 * Population in 1961: 1,129 * Population in 1956: 1,230 * Population in 1951: 1,172 * Population in 1941: 1,133 * Population in 1931: 1,167 * Population in 1921: 1,187 * Population in 1911: 1,316 * Population in 1901: 1,334 * Population in 1891: 1,358 * Population in 1881: 1,382 * Population in 1871: 1,147 * Population in 1861: 1,028 Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 244 (total dwellings: 264) Mother tongue: * English as first language: 0% * French as first language: 99% * English and French as first language: 0% * Other as first language: 0%


See also

*
Charest River The Charest River originates from Charest Lake in the Montauban-les-Mines area, located in the eastern part of Notre-Dame-de-Montauban, within the Mekinac Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Mauricie in the province of Q ...
*
Rivière à Veillet The Veillet River (French: ''Rivière-à- Veillet'') is located in the municipality of Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, Quebec, Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, in the Regional County Municipality of "Les Chenaux", in the administrative region of Mau ...
*
Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality Les Chenaux (, meaning ''the channels'' in French) is a regional county municipality in central Quebec, Canada, in the Mauricie region. The seat is in Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes. It is located adjacent on the east of Trois-Rivières on the Saint Lawr ...
* Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain


External links

* Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain
la maison au cadran
/ Edgar Gariépy - photo 1926, Archives de Montréal
Gendron Bridge
at 2nd Row Saint-Édouard in Saint-Prosper, Champlain County, photo 1994, on BAnQ Quebec
Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain, Répertoire des municipalités
Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation Quebec
Harmonized Regulations respecting Public Safety and Protection of Persons and Property
(in French), 22 décembre 2020. Note : Le présent règlement s’applique sur l’ensemble des territoires des municipalités de la MRC des Chenaux faisant partie de l’Entente relative à la fourniture de services de police par la Sûreté du Québec sur le territoire de la M.R.C., soit
Batiscan Batiscan (or Batisquan) was a chief of the Algonquin people in the area of Trois-Rivières, Quebec around 1610 to 1629. He met the explorer Samuel de Champlain upon his return to Quebec in 1610 and held a feast for him. In 1611, Samuel de Champla ...
, Champlain,
Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade () is a municipality located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, in Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality, Les Chenaux RCM, Mauricie region, Quebec, Canada. History On October 29, 1672, an area of 1.5 Fre ...
,
Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan () is a parish municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada. This municipality is part of the Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality in Batiscanie and in the administrative region of M ...
, Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes, Saint-Maurice (Québec),
Saint-Narcisse Saint-Narcisse () is a parish municipality located in the regional county municipality (MRC) Chenaux, in the administrative region of Mauricie, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. Located on the North Shore of the Saint Lawrence River, about ...
, Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain et Saint-Stanislas (Les Chenaux).


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