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.