[1] In addition to the main namesake population centre, the municipality also includes the hamlet of Fabre-Station[4] and the community of Pointe-Martel.

[5] In the 17th century, a fur trading post was established on the eastern shore of Lake Temiskaming, 18 kilometres (11 mi) south of Ville-Marie.

[1][6] In 1870, the first settler arrived there and cleared the first land for agriculture in the Témiscamingue region.

At the end of that century, mining prospectors arrived and discovered copper, cobalt, nickel, and silver deposits, resulting in a brief mining boom (that ended in 1904 when larger deposits were found in Cobalt, Ontario).

[6] In 1899, the parish of Saint-Édouard was founded, named after Édouard-Charles Fabre.