Sainte Agathe des Monts

Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts is a town in the area of Quebec, Canada, in the territorial district region of Les Laurentides in the regulatory locale of Laurentides, otherwise called the "Laurentians" or the Laurentian Mountains in English. Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts verges on a lake called Lac des Sables, and is found roughly 100 kilometers 62 mi north of Montreal. The town has been twinned with Lagny-sur-Marne, France since 1969 and Saranac Lake, New York since 2002.

In 1849, the main families touched base on the northern edge of the territory, a settlement built up by Augustin Norbert Morin. Starting in 1850, a quick colonization of the locale started. The arriving families were basically of French Catholic background. The town itself is fixated on a Catholic church worked in 1904. In 1865, the arrive on which the congregation stands was given to the area by Dr. Euseble Larocque, sibling of the Monsignor. Dr. Larocque had amassed a fortune in the California Gold Rush and had chosen to carry on with the life of a seigneur.

He purchased a few ranches around Lac a la Truite Trout Lake and region however was excessively kind-hearted, making it impossible to request the rents. There is likewise a littler Anglican church, "Blessed Trinity Anglican Parish", in the town. In 1926 the Lord Bishop of the Anglican Church of Montreal directed the devotion of the present building. The English Protestant people group developed from the time the prepare initially landed in 1892.