Sorel-Tracy (; ) is a city in southwestern

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, Canada and the geographical end point of the

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. It is located at the confluence of the

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and the

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, on the western edge of

Lac Saint-Pierre Lake Saint Pierre (; abe, Nebesek) is a lake in Quebec, Canada, a widening of the Saint Lawrence River between Sorel-Tracy and Trois-Rivières. It is located downstream, and northeast, of Montreal; and upstream, and southwest, of Quebec City. Th ...

, downstream and northeast of

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. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 34,600. Its mayor is Patrick Péloquin and it is the seat of the

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and the

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of Richelieu. The city is the result of a voluntary amalgamation in 2001 between two cities, Sorel and Tracy, which developed on opposite shores of the

: Tracy on the west shore (left) and Sorel on the east (right) shore. In 1992 Sorel had annexed the municipality of Saint-Pierre-de-Sorel; today it forms the southern part of its territory. Sorel was founded in 1642. Tracy was founded on February 10, 1954, but prior to that, it was a

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known as Saint-Joseph de Sorel. (This is not to be confused with the town of

Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel is a town in the Regional county municipality of Pierre-De Saurel, in Montérégie, Quebec. It is located north of the Tracy section of Sorel-Tracy. Champlain Street marks the town's southern limit from Sorel-Tracy, and the ...

, an independent municipality north of Tracy). Sorel-Tracy is known for manufacturing related to the

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and

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. It has a ferry linking the city to the village of

Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola is a municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada, part of the D'Autray Regional County Municipality. Its territory is located on 33 of the Sorel Islands in the Saint Lawrence River where it flows into Lac Sa ...

. Its shipyard built units of three frigates for the Canadian forces, and two ships in the late 1960s.

History

Early exploration in this area by the French was a catalyst for armed conflict with various indigenous peoples. The French also learned about existing rivalries among these nations and sought to build its own alliances with First Nations. The Battle of Sorel occurred on June 19, 1610:

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had some French regulars or local militia, as well as First Nations allies, the

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(also known as Huron by the French),

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and

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peoples. Together they held off the powerful Mohawk people in

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. Sorel is the fourth-oldest city in the province of Quebec. Its formation began in 1642 when Charles Huault de Montmagny, first Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of

, built

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here as a defense for settlers and river travellers against the

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, primarily the Mohawk, the powerful easternmost nation in the Confederacy based south of the Great Lakes. In 1647, the original fort was destroyed by the Mohawk, but it was rebuilt by the

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on the same site in 1665. The name Sorel comes from the first seigneur of the area, Pierre de Saurel. He was in command of a regiment of the Carignan-Salières that landed in New France in August 1665. He was granted a seigneury by

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in 1672, after having already built a manor house four years prior. The parish of Tracy was named for Lieutenant General Alexander de Prouville, Sieur de Tracy, who was overall in command of the

directly under the Governor. Sorel claims to have had the first

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in North America, put up on

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1781. After Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester visited Sorel in 1787, the town took the name of William-Henry, a name it retained until 1845. It is probable that before the

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, there were no English-speaking, Protestant people in Sorel, as it had been settled by French-speaking colonists and their descendants, who were primarily Catholic. Although a hamlet or small village, it was the scene of much activity during the war and after. During 1776 large bodies of troops passed through and at times were stationed in the area. For example, the English quartered in Sorel the German auxiliaries they hired after they reached Quebec. Governor

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wrote a letter to Lord George Germain in October 1778, from his camp in Sorel where fortifications were in progress, proposing his use of the Seigneurie,

It is my intention therefore, if time and circumstances favour me, to make Sorel a place of strength with Permanent Works, as the importance of it deserves. The Seigneurie of this Place is vested in merchants residing in England and the Inhabitants of it, people remarkable for their courage and resolution, have distinguished themselves very much by their attachment to the Government even at a time the Rebels were Masters of that Country, in which account I think it would serve the King's interest to bestow some Public mark of favour upon them such as remitting them the Quitrents which they pay for their land, to the Seigneur, and the Seigneurie being to be sold, and the purchase would not exceed 13,000, having been offered for that sum, I submit to Your Lordship whether it would not be best to give orders to treat immediately with the Proprietors, Messrs. Greenwood and Higgins in London, both for enabling me to effect the purchase...

The Crown purchased the land in 1781, at the end of the war, and Sorel became a clearing house for the steady stream of

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refugees from the south. A number settled in Sorel, forming the nucleus of the English-speaking population. Also, the Crown selected Sorel as one of the stations for "Military Invalids", or “Outside

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Pensioners", as they were also called. Several hundred older veterans and their dependents were sent to Sorel under the medical care of Dr. Christopher Carter. There facilities had to be built for them. The earliest British efforts for the propagation of the

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religion in Lower Canada started in Sorel. With the continued influx of Loyalists during 1783 into the Seigniory (as the English spell it), the settlement sought a permanent Protestant minister. That year they sent a petition to the

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, of the Anglican Church, begging them to send a Minister of the Gospel to reside in the Seigniory. The Reverend John Doty was assigned to the post, embarking during the month of April 1784 at

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, and arriving at Quebec in June. He reached Sorel on 4 July 1784, where he celebrated Divine Service (or communion) and preached his first sermon. This is the date of the foundation of the Anglican parish in Sorel and the first Anglican mission in Canada. They used as the chapel a wooden building located at the end of King Street, a few steps from the Richelieu market. This building had earlier served as a military storehouse. In 1819, the town's parsonage was declared dangerously unfit. At the beginning of the 19th century, Sorel was a center of

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rs, who had been established in Quebec and among the indigenous peoples from the earliest years of the colony. The character of the town changed over the next few decades as more permanent settlers arrived. In the 1820s, Sorel was the site of the governor's house for the Governor General of Lower Canada, then George Ramsay, the Lord Dalhousie. (He is the namesake of

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.) Ramsay quickly purchased land in the area to be developed for agriculture. Due to his presence, the small town became a centre for the turbulent politics of that time, in the period leading up to the

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. Locally, the

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governor and parish

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competed for power and influence among the different ethnic groups. Kelly oversaw a number of improvements and changes during his years in the town. The "dangerous" parsonage was rebuilt by 1832 (using stone from the original). The town changed its name back to Sorel from William-Henry in 1845, reflecting its demographics and predominately French Catholic population. Kelly helped improve the parish

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, which contained four hundred volumes by 1846. In 1848 the community erected a monument to

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. They established a society for the care of the poor and sick, and for the education of girls. Kelly retired in 1849, after the completion of a new clergy house. The older one was adapted for use as a college. In the long term, the town continued to be settled primarily by French Canadians, rather than developing any sizable Anglo-Canadian population. In 1839 two residents were defendants in a murder trial. An American, George Holmes, who lived in Sorel, was linked to Joséphine d’Estimauville, a married woman who had been staying with her mother in Sorel after leaving her abusive husband. The pair were arrested after Holmes became a suspect for killing her husband Louis-Pascal-Achille Taché (21 June 1813-31 January 1839), seigneur of Kamouraska since 1833. This seigneury was located in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of eastern Quebec. Holmes fled to the

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, escaped extradition, and disappeared. D’Estimauville was tried for complicity in the death of her husband, but acquitted. In 1970,

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published a novel, '' Kamouraska'', inspired by the affair. It was adapted as a 1973 film of the same name, directed by

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and starring

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and

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. The shipyards in Sorel were long important to its economy. In the late 20th century, the city was the site of construction of three of 12 s of the

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. The three Canadian patrol frigates built in Quebec were , and . The shipyard in Sorel-Tracy was called M.I.L. Tracy. It built units for all three vessels and sent them by barge for final assembly at M.I.L. Davie in

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. Previous to the construction of the ''Halifax''-class frigates, MIL (Marine Industries Ltd, operated by the Simard family of Sorel, constructed , which was commissioned there in 1964. MIL was also the site of construction of , an experimental hydrofoil commissioned by the

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. The construction of both these ships was overseen by Cmdr. Donald Clark CD RCN.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by Statistics Canada, Sorel-Tracy had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. French Canadians make up more than 97% of the city's population. Less than 2% of the population is foreign-born or second generation immigrants. Anglo-Canadians make up less than 1% of Sorel-Tracy's inhabitants. Population trend: (+) ''Amalgamated with Tracy on March 15, 2000.'' Mother tongue language (2006)2006 Statistics Canada Community Profile: Sorel-Tracy, Quebec
Retrieved April 30, 2018.

Transportation

Sorel-Tracy is within of both

and

Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières (, – 'Three Rivers') is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River across from the city of ...

, and is easily accessible via Autoroute 30 from the west and via Route 132 from the east and west. Autoroute 30 stops at Sorel and picks up again at Bécancour, leaving an incomplete segment in between. A year-round ferry operates on the St. Lawrence River between Sorel-Tracy and Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola on the way to

Berthierville Berthierville ()(also called Berthier-en-haut, and legally called Berthier before 1942) is a town located between Montreal and Trois-Rivières on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. Berthierville is the seat of D'Autray ...

Notable people

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, ice hockey defenseman who last played for the Anaheim Ducks in the NHL, and who won the Stanley Cup with the Anaheim Ducks in

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. * Anthony Beauvillier, ice left winger who currently plays for the

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in the NHL, who drafted him 28th overall in

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. * Nicolas Aubé-Kubel, ice right winger who currently plays for the

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in the NHL. *

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, goaltender currently playing for the

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in the

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. The

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in the

drafted him 1st overall in

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and with whom he won the Stanley Cup in

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, 2016, and

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. He would then get drafted by the

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in the

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, leading them to the

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.Marc-André Fleury

. Retrieved April 30, 2018. * Andre Gill, ice hockey goaltender *

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, politician and member of the

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, a Canadian political party * Monique Régimbald-Zeiber, painter

Sports

The city is home to the historic Colisée Cardin, an ice hockey arena built in 1954. The

Sorel Éperviers The Sorel Éperviers (Black Hawks) were a junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League from 1969 to 1981. The team was one of the founding members of the QMJHL. They mostly played at the Colisée Cardin in Sorel-Tracy, Quebec ...

played there from 1969–77 and 1980–81. They advanced to the league final in 1974, losing the

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to the

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. Since the foundation of the LNAH (formerly QSPHL) in 1996, Sorel-Tracy has hosted a team for all but two seasons, 2008–2010. The team was known variously as Dinosaures, Mission, Royaux, GCI and HC Caverna before taking the name Sorel-Tracy Éperviers in 2012.

Climate

References

External links

Official website

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Sports

Climate

See also

References

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