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by Ivan Sache, 9 July 2019
The municipality of Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier (3,382 inhabitants in 2016;
44,117 ha) is located in the northern part of the Quebec Urban Community, 25 km
from Quebec downtown, and 15 km north-east from Shannon, the capital of MRC La
Jacques-Cartier.
Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier was settled in 1812 by
European colonists, who built a road connecting river Jacques-Cartier (178 km,
tributary of the Saint-Lawrence) to Loretteville. In 1815, four businessmen from
Quebec, John Neilson, Andrew Stuart, Louis Moquin and Nicholas Vincent,
purchased several plots from he Society of Jesus and organized the colonization
of the area. John Neilson called for the establishment of a durable farmers'
settlement equipped with schools and other services. The churches reflect the
diversity of the first settlers: St. Andrews church (Scottish Presbyterian,
1843); Christ Church (Anglican, 1863), St. Gabriel Church (Roman Catholic, 1852,
increased in 1911), keeping the oldest altar in Quebec Diocese, designed around
1770 by François-Noël Levasseur; and St. Andrews church (United Church of
Canada, 1926).
The today's municipality of Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier
was established in October 1985 as the merger of the former municipalities of
Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier and Saint-Gabriel Ouest, which had been established
on 18 May 1861 as the splitting of the old municipality of Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier,
erected in 1845.
http://saint-gabriel-de-valcartier.ca/
Municipal website
The flag
of Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, designed in 2018, is in proportions 1:2,
vertically divided (1:2:1) green-white-green with thin golden-yellow stripes
separating the green and white fields, and the municipal logo in the center.
http://saint-gabriel-de-valcartier.ca/municipalite/%e2%80%a2devise-logos-armoiries/
Municipal website
The logo represents the characteristic elements of the
local landscape: the mountains, the forest, the farmland, and the river. The
tree trunk divided in two, symbolizes the two languages, forming a one and only
tree, the municipality. The logo reflects the bilingual municipal motto, created
in 2005 by Louise Verret, "Ensemble, au cœur de la nature, Together, in the
heart of nature".
http://saint-gabriel-de-valcartier.ca/upload/saint-gabriel-de-valcartier/editor/asset/Logo%20et%20description.pdf
Municipal website
Image from the municipal website:
http://saint-gabriel-de-valcartier.ca/municipalite/%e2%80%a2devise-logos-armoiries/
Ivan Sache, 9 July 2019