Drummondville

Drummondville is a city in the Center-du-Quebec district of Quebec, found east of Montreal on the Saint-Francois River. The populace as of the Canada 2016 Census was 68,601. The leader of Drummondville is Alexandre Cusson.Drummondville is the seat of Drummond Regional County Municipality, and of the legal region of Drummond.Drummondville was established in June 1815 by Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Heriot. The motivation behind the town was to give a home to British troopers in the War of 1812, and to monitor the Saint-Francois River against American assaults.

The town was named after Sir Gordon Drummond, the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada somewhere in the range of 1813 and 1816. The development of the Hemmings Falls hydro-electric dam in 1920 brought another rush of mechanical development to the Drummondville region. A few peripheral districts have been amalgamated into Drummondville since the 1950s:

• 1955: Saint-Joseph de Grantham, Saint-Jean-Baptiste

• 1966: Drummondville-Ouest

• 1982: Drummondville-Sud

• 1993: Grantham

• 2004: Saint-Nicephore, Saint-Charles-de-Drummond, Saint-Joachim-de-Courval.