Ferme Neuve

Ferme-Neuve French for "New Farm" is a district in the Laurentides area of Quebec, Canada, some portion of the Antoine-Labelle Regional County Municipality. It is the biggest consolidated district of the Laurentides locale. The town is situated on the shores of the Du Lievre River and Journalists Lake, and along Quebec Route 309, around 20 kilometers 12 mi north of Mont-Laurier. In the nineteenth century, the zone started pulling in lumberjacks due to its rich red and white pine stands. In 1850, the James MacLaren logging organization assembled an extensive tree cultivate called "La Ferme de la Montagne" that was utilized as a supply camp for lumberjacks.

It was sold in 1888 to Cyrille Lafontaine and possessed by his child Leonard who turned into the primary pioneer and rancher of Ferme-Neuve. In 1898, the Ferme-Neuve Post Office opened. In 1902, a gathering of 8 Montreal writers, under heading from Lomer Gouin, Minister of Colonization, manufactured a model ranch with the end goal to pull in more pilgrims. They additionally propelled an open membership to assemble a school. In acknowledgment, the lake contiguous the settlement was called Lac des Journalistes "Lake of Journalists". You can come here and explore this place.