Construction of a new home in Vaudreuil-Dorion

History and Localization of a new home in Vaudreuil-Dorion

It was on October 29 1732 which the Marquis de Beauharnois, governor of New France, and the Intendant Gilles Hocquart, Lord of Champerny, conceded with Pierre de Rigaud of Cavagnal, major of the companies of the troops of the marine, and with the captain Pierre-François de Rigaud of Vaudreuil, his/her brother, "the ground estendue three miles of face on three miles of depth, along the river called the Grande-Rivière, by drawing towards Long-Sault the before mentioned seigniory under the name of Rigaud". This concession was ratified by the king on April 7, 1733.

The third son of the Marquis de Vaudreuil, Pierre-François, Lord of part of Stone, born in 1698, was the last French general governor of Canada. The capitulation of Montreal,was on September 8 and the rendering of Quebec,was on September 18, 1760, as well as the treaty of Paris of February 10, 1763, decided the Rigaud brothers of Vaudreuil to sell their seigniory on March 27 and April 12, 1763 to Michel-Alain Chartier, Marquis de Lotbinière who resold it with his son Honourable Michel-Eustace-Gaspard Chartier de Lotbinière, September 14, 1771. He was one of the defenders of the rights of the French Canadians. He became even Orateur of the Room of assembly of Lower Canada.

First inhabitants of the construction of new home;

The first inhabitants of the construction of a new home of French language were established in the 18th century on the territory of the Lord of that time to which belonged Vaudreuil, Rigaud and Lotbinière. These three seigniories were divided into concessions. In Vaudreuil, one could count that of Coast St-Charles, Pointe Cavagnol and Côte St-Louis where Solomon Grout was the first to be settled in 1812. The first inhabitants cultivated the grounds and gave to the Lords the fruit of their harvest including oats, rye, buckwheat, corn, potatos, pea, broad beans, tomatos and hay, it as a payment for the hiring of the grounds. The majority of the first immigrants of the English language settled by the construction of their new homes after the war of 1812. Those came from New England, England and more particularly from Cumberland, and Scotland.

The new city in construction of new homes;

The new town of Vaudreuil-Dorion, that was created on March 16, 1994, is located on banks of the Outaouais river and the Lake of the two Mountains. Its immense territory (73 square kilometres) that classes among the five greater municipalities in Quebec. Next came the fusion of the town of Vaudreuil and the town of Dorion, Vaudreuil-Dorion is the capital of the M.R.C. Vaudreuil-Soulanges, this city of more than 20,000 inhabitants and gathered all the governmental, Community services to better serve the area. Equipped with a significant infrastructure of Community equipments, the town of Vaudreuil-Dorion offers to its citizens a diversity of services.

Although young and modern, Vaudreuil-Dorion does not have less one last of a rich past and whose origins, related to the Seigniory of Vaudreuil, will have made it possible to develop a significant inheritance. It is about people proud and full of history, with several family-roots who still welcomes the construction of new homes.

Thus, beside the famous Cité des Jeunes de Vaudreuil, cradle of the reform of education in Quebec, which is ideal for the construction of a new home.

We also find the church of Saint-Michel, the Maison Trestler, the regional Museum and the Maison Valois which contributed certainly to weave the history of Vaudreuil-Dorion.

May 11, 1998, the City adopts its cultural policy and creates the same year a permanent Consultative Committee of the Culture. The Maison Valois, historic building, becomes the House of Arts and Culture on July 13, 1998. Vaudreuil-Dorion, a city which deserves to be known.

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