Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade
| Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade | |
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| Municipality | |
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| Motto: Unis dans la foi ("United in Faith") |
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 Location within Les Chenaux RCM. |
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 Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade
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| Coordinates: 46°35′N 72°12′W / 46.583°N 72.200°WCoordinates: 46°35′N 72°12′W / 46.583°N 72.200°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 Quebec
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| Region | Mauricie |
| RCM | Les Chenaux |
| Settled | 1690s |
| Constituted | May 10, 1989 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Yvon Lafond |
| • Federal riding | Saint-Maurice—Champlain |
| • Prov. riding | Champlain |
| Area | |
| • Total | 129.50 km2 (50.00 sq mi) |
| • Land | 110.22 km2 (42.56 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 2,072 |
| • Density | 18.8/km2 (49/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2006-2011 |
 4.1% |
| • Dwellings | 1,019 |
| Time zone | EST (UTC−5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) |
| Postal code(s) | G0X 2J0 |
| Area code(s) | 418 and 581 |
Highways A-40
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 Route 138 Route 159 Route 354
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| Website | www delaperade |
Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade is a municipality in the Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality, in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada. The town is located near the mouth of the Sainte-Anne River along the Chemin du Roy, a historic segment of Quebec Route 138 that stretches from near Montreal to Quebec City.
It is the world capital of Tommy Cod fishing. During Tommy Cod season, generally from late December to mid-February, thousands of tourists come to Sainte-Anne for ice fishing and a small fishing village is built on the frozen waters of the Sainte-Anne River that bisects the town.
The centrepiece of the town is the Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade Church, a Catholic church near the banks of the Sainte-Anne River, modelled after the Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal.
On October 29, 1672, an area of 1.5 lieue (about 4.8 km) by 1 lieue (about 3.2 km) deep at the Sainte-Anne River was granted by Intendant Jean Talon as a seignory to Edmond de Suève and Thomas Tarieu de Lanouguère (or Lanaudière). An increase of 3 lieues was granted to Marguerite Denis, widow of Thomas Tarieu, by Governor Frontenac and Intendant Champigny on March 4, 1697. The islands were added to the seignory on April 6, 1697, and confirmed on October 30, 1700. The order of January 8, 1710, dismissed the co-seigneur François Chorel de Saint-Romain d'Orvilliers and granted the islands to Pierre-Thomas Tarieu de la Pérade, son of Thomas Tarieu and husband of Madeleine de Verchères, a Quebec heroine who, at 14 years of age, successfully defended her parents' fort against a band of Iroquois. Following another increase granted in April 1735 to Pierre-Thomas Tarieu, the Sainte-Anne-De La Pérade Seignory came to be named after him.
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