Riviere du Loup

Riviere-du-Loup 2011 populace 19,447 is a little city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The city is the seat for the Riviere-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and the legal locale of Kamouraska. The city was named after the close-by waterway, whose name implies Wolf's River in French. This name may have originated from a local clan known as "Les Loups" or from the numerous seals, referred to in French as loup-marin ocean wolves, once found at the stream's mouth.

Riviere-du-Loup was initially settled in 1673 as the seigneurie of Sieur Charles-Aubert de la Chesnaye. The people group was consolidated as the town of Fraserville, to pay tribute to early Scottish pioneer Alexandre Fraser, in 1850, and turned into a city in 1910. The city returned to its unique name, Rivière-du-Loup, in 1919. Somewhere in the range of 1850 and 1919, the city saw expansive increments in its anglophone populace.

The vast majority of them exited the district by the 1950s. 1% of the populace still communicates in English as its first dialect. In fall of 1950 Riviere-du-Loup was the site of an atomic mischance. A USAF B-50 was restoring an atomic bomb to the USA. The bomb was discharged because of motor inconveniences, and afterward was demolished in a non-atomic explosion before it hit the ground. The blast scattered about 100 pounds 45 kg of uranium U-238. The city is known for its fantastic dusks.