Saint-Anselme


Saint-Anselme is a village in the Bellechasse Regional County Municipality, part of the Chaudière-Appalaches administrative region of Quebec, Canada. It is the second biggest municipality in the RCM, after Saint-Henri. The Etchemin River goes through the village.

History

The municipality of the parish of Saint-Anselme was founded in 1845. The municipality of the village of Saint-Anselme was created in 1920. The two municipalities were merged in 1998 to create the current municipality.
The year 1829 marked the start of religious construction. A chapel-presbytery was built according to the plans of architect Thomas Baillairgé and his mentor, Abbé Jérôme Demers, Vicar General. François Audet dit Lapointe, then living in Saint-Charles, where he had just finished enlarging the church, was awarded the contract to build the chapel-presbytery, and then, in 1846, the present church, which was completed in 1850.
Around fifteen cooperative groups have been created since 1940:
  • the Société coopérative agricole ;
  • la Boulangerie coopérative ;
  • the Meunerie coopérative ;
  • the Garage coopératif ;
  • Avicole régionale Etchemin ;
  • the Cercle des jeunes éleveurs.
Quebec Central and Canadian National railway lines have been located here since 1875, but were replaced by the Bellechasse cycloroute in 2012.

Notable people

  • Georges Dumont, medical doctor and politician
  • Louis-Napoléon Larochelle, manufacturer, railway contractor and politician