Lejeune Township

The Lejeune Township (French: Canton Lejeune) is located in the MRC Mekinac Regional County Municipality, in Mauricie, Quebec, Canada.[1]

Geography

Located south of Mekinac Township and west of Marmier Township, Lejeune township straddles two municipal territories:

The territory of Lejeune Township depends on two watersheds :

Lejeune township is mostly forest land. Logging has been the engine of the economy of this region. Today, tourist activities are very popular, including resorts, hunting, fishing, water sports, ATVs, snowmobiles, excursions on foot in the forest and climbing some cliffs.

The main roads are :

Toponymy

Already named in 1873, the Canton Lejeune was proclaimed on September 4, 1892, in the Gazette officielle du Québec, at the same time as Marmier (township) to the east. In this township, several lakes are named after the Jesuit missionary Paul Le Jeune, such as Missionary Lake, Lake Jesuit, and Lac Le Jeune.[3]

Paul Young was born in 1591 to Calvinist parents in Chalons-sur-Marne, in Champagne (Vitry-le-François, France). He converted to Catholicism at the age of 16 years. In 1632, Paul Le Jeune was appointed superior of the Jesuit mission in Canada. He was assigned to Quebec when David Kirke's group ceded the city they occupied since 1629. Upon his arrival in New France, he learned Indian languages and performs several exploration excursions. In the exercise of his priestly ministry, he devoted himself to writing an annual reports, which was sent to France. The Relations of Jesuits in New France is one of the main sources of history. Back in France in 1649, he was appointed Attorney Jesuit mission of Canada. He died in Paris in 1664.

The name "Canton Lejeune" was officially registered 4 February 1982 in the register of place names of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (Geographical Names Board of Québec).[4]

See also

References
  1. "Le Jeune". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
  2. The name "Lake Vlimeux" was recognized in 1980 by the Commission de toponymie du Québec (Geographical Names Board of Québec), in replacement of the name "Lac Venomous" which was officially established in 1959 by the Commission de toponymie du Québec
  3. Names and places of Quebec, the work of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (Geographical Names Board of Québec) published in 1994 and 1996 as an illustrated dictionary printed, and in that of a CD produced by the Micro-Intel in 1997, from this dictionary.
  4. "Commission de toponymie du Québec (Geographical Names Board of Québec) - Bank of places names".

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