Les Bergeronnes

Les Bergeronnes (French pronunciation: [le bɛʁʒəʁɔn]) is a municipality in the Côte-Nord region of the province of Quebec in Canada.

After the continental glacier withdrawal 8,000 years ago, Indigenous Canadians spent the summer along the Saint Lawrence River bank in the Bergeronnes territory.

A plot about the fact that too many religious activities - there was a daily public prayer - left no time for First Nations to hunt, led to the abandonment of the mission in 1725.

At the time of Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield hydrographic survey around 1830, all that remained was the cellar of the house with its stone fireplace, hence the reference to Cave Cove on the map while Bon-Désir was moved three miles further west.

[10] On August 10, 1864, a landslide took off a large section of the squatters road (now part of the Morillon hiking trail).

On April 11, 1896, another landslide moved down 500 acres on a two miles length strip of farmland with a dozen houses.

[1] However, the name place is formed from the word "bank" and the radical "raa", widely used in Europe to denote heights.

[14] Shortly after in the middle of the 19th century, Mission of Sainte-Zoé was founded and became a parish in 1889 receiving its first resident pastor, Arthur Guay.

In 1918, from mid-October to mid-November, Spanish flu spread through the Saint Lawrence River north shore region: up to 46 percent of the population became infected.

Having no land on which to fall back in expectation of better days, dozens of families left the village and accepted offers of the Ministry of Colonization to settle, around 1931, in Sainte-Thérèse-de-Colombier.

The timber industry is also active with the Coopérative forestière La Nord Côtière and Bersaco sawmill specializes in the manufacture of pallets for transportation.

List of former mayors: At Bon-Désir: At Bergeronnes: Named pastor in 1928, Joseph Thibeault began to modernize agriculture in the village through conferences, by establishing a model farm and went as far as to buy a stallion to improve the local livestock.

In 1938 it was used to clear a runway that became Grandes-Bergeronnes Airport and later Les Bergeronnes Aerodrome and launch an air transportation service, called Charlevoix-Saguenay.

Priest Gendron came to Les Bergeronnes in March 1948 aboard a schooner[30] that had slipped through the ice on the Saint Lawrence River.

In 1967, the Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil pavilion provided boarding for 72 girls from outside and 90 boys from all over the region were studying at the Dominic Savio school.

Bay of Bon Desir
Cap de Bon Desir lighthouse
Les Bergeronnes