Courville, a town in Quebec county, Quebec, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence, and on the Quebec Electric Railway, 7 miles north-east of Quebec. It is named after Charles Cadieux, dit Courville, who gave his name to a neighbouring hill, and who was buried at Beauport in 1715. The town is largely residential. Pop. (1931), 1,678.

Source : W. Stewart WALLACE, ed., The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. II, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 411p., p. 141.