Saint Georges

Saint-Georges is a town inside the province of Quebec. It is the seat of Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality, part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region.The history of Saint-Georges is going again to the past due seventeenth century, at which factor the vicinity changed into inhabited mainly with the aid of "Algonquin Indians". The first European presence recorded is that of a Jesuit missionary known as Father Gabriel Druillettes who made 3 visits in 1646, 1650 and, finally, in 1651, however there was no colonial agreement hooked up right now.

By the center of the following century, but, two colonial "seigneuries" have been hooked up on the existing website of Saint-Georges: these were Aubin-de-l'Isle and Aubert-Gallion.Records suggest that during 1760 one of these, Aubert-Gallion, handed into the hands of Marie-Anne Josephte de l'Estrigant de St-Martin and of her daughter Charlotte-Marie-Anne-Joseph Aubert de los angeles Chesnaye. The heiresses bought their inheritance in 1768 to William Grant, an Englishman with ambitions to turn out to be a chief Canadian landowner. Grant died in 1805 or 1807 and the property turned into sold again, this time to the German, Johann Georg Pfotzer. The canonical parish of Saint-Georges was created in 1835, and the secular parish/municipality in 1856.