Vercheres

Vercheres is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in Monteregie, Quebec, situated on the south bank of the Saint Lawrence River. The populace as of the Canada 2011 Census was 5,692. In the seventeenth century, the settlement at Verchères was the scene of an Iroquois strike that was obviously frustrated by the resourcefulness of a 14-year-old young lady named Madeleine now known as Madeleine de Vercheres. A cast-press statue of Madeleine de Vercheres stands today by the previous area of the settlement fortification on the shore of the Saint-Lawrence waterway.

In French, the word Vercheres can be utilized as a descriptor to portray a particular kind of dinghy imagined in Vercheres toward the finish of the nineteenth century, i.e. chaloupe vercheres. An example of the skiff is on lasting open air show amid in the mid year and fall in at the Parc Jean-Marie Moreau opposite the town office.The proverb of Vercheres is In Tenebris Lumen Rectis Corde. The lanes of Vercheres are for the most part named after the patronyms of living families yet additionally after neighborhood individuals who rose to big name in Canadian history.