Cap-Rouge, Quebec City

Cap-Rouge (English: Red Cape) is located in central Quebec, Canada on the Saint Lawrence River within the Borough Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge in Quebec City. It is located on the site of the first attempted permanent European settlement in North America, Charlesbourg-Royal. Cap-Rouge was long a town on its own before being incorporated into Québec City on January 1, 2002. The population of Cap-Rouge was 13,153 as of the Canada 2011 Census.

In 1635, the first seigneurie was granted on the territory of Cape-Rouge, but revoked the following year by the Company of One Hundred Associates. However, by 1638 Paul Le Jeune, a missionary Jesuit, noted in "The Jesuit Relations" the presence of some families in the valley. Between 1647 and 1652, the seigneuries of Maur, on the West, and Gaudarville, in the East, were established on the territory. From that moment, based on taxable citizens, the settlement on the lands of Cap-Rouge are established. The village formed is served by the parishes of Ancienne-Lorette in (1678) to the north; of Saint-Augustin in (1691) on the West; and of Sainte-Foy (1698) in the East.

The name comes from its cliffs facing the Saint-Lawrence river made of schist rock bearing a reddish tint. The other main topographic feature of Cap-Rouge is the Cap-Rouge river valley where are concentrated some historic buildings as well the archeological remains of a pottery workshop active from 1860 to 1892. It is believed that until the end of its operations the workshop mainly used imported clay rather than the local one, which has a rather red hue.

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