Quebec History Marianopolis College


Date Published:
March 2005

L’Encyclopédie de l’histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia

 

Villemontel

 

Villemontel, a village and parish in Abitibi county, Quebec, on the Canadian National Railway, 77 miles west of Senneterre. Near it is an experimental farm opened in 1915, for the internment of prisoners of war. It is named after an officer named Villemontel, who served under Montcalm in the Seven Years' War.

Source  : W. Stewart WALLACE, ed., The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. VI, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 398p., pp. 243-244.

 

 

 

 
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