Chesterville, a village in Arthabaska county, Quebec, on the Nicolet river, 10 miles from the Victoriaville station on the Canadian National Railway. It is the centre of an agricultural community and a summer resort, and is situated on the side of a mountain, from which may be seen the valley of the Nicolet, as far as Nicolet lake.

Source : W. Stewart WALLACE, ed., The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. II, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 411p., pp. 45-46.