Warwick, a village in Arthabaska county, Quebec, on the Rivière des Pins, and on the Canadian National Railway, 8 miles south of Victoriaville. It is an industrial centre, with factories for agricultural machinery, washing-machines, overalls, cheese-boxes, and doors; and it was incorporated as a village in 1861. It is named after Warwick, in England. Population 1,504 [in 1948]. There is also a small village of this name in Lambton county, Ontario, 6 miles from Watford.

Source : W. Stewart WALLACE, ed., The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. VI, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 398p., p. 259.