Mont-Saint-Gregoire, Quebec (Municipality)

Mont-Saint-Gregoire - A Sugarbush path of Undergrowth
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The Presbytery
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A masonry near Mont St-Gregoire
By Yannick Lemelin (à partir du mont-St-Grégoire) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

City of St. Gregoire from the mountain
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Mont-Saint-Gregoire (Quebec) - Illuminations end of 2005
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Mont-Saint-Gregoire (Quebec) - Illuminations end of 2005
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Mont-Saint-Gregoire - Erablière Goudrelle way Sous-Bois
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Mont Saint-Grégoire - St. Gregory The Great Catholic Church
Date 08-04-2006
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St. Gregory The Great Catholic Church
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Mont-Saint-Gregoire - Path Undergrowth, maple Denis Charbonneau
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Mont-Saint-Gregoire is a municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada, located in the Regional County Municipality of Le Haut-Richelieu. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 3,086. Residents of Mont-Saint-Gregoire are called Grégoriens (Grégoriennes, fem.).

Mont-Saint-Gregoire, Montérégie (Québec) - The maple "In the Undergrowth" in 2008, before its destruction by fire in March 2010
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Mont-Saint-Gregoire (Quebec) - Harvest sap
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Mont-Saint-Gregoire was named for Gregory the Great, pope from 590 to 604, who was succeeded by Sabinian.^[5]

Saint André Bessette was born in Mont-Saint-Gregoire.

References

1. Reference number 296582 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (French)
2. Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire: Mont-Saint-Grégoire
3. Parliament of Canada Federal Riding History: SAINT-JEAN (Quebec)
4. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Mont-Saint-Grégoire, Quebec
5. Historique de Mont-Saint-Grégoire
6. "2006 Community Profiles". Canada 2006 Census. Statistics Canada. March 30, 2011. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
7. "2001 Community Profiles". Canada 2001 Census. Statistics Canada. February 17, 2012. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
8. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont-Saint-Gr%C3%A9goire,_Quebec
Alteration:  Gregoire is used without the accent aigu.