In the summer of 1973, a wave on the Niagarette devastated a small area, where it joins the Sainte-Anne River.

A few houses were destroyed by the powerful water wave, due to strong rain, and debris that blocked the small river for a few hours.

[4] On the morning of 22 March 1997, five members of the Order of the Solar Temple died in a mass suicide in Saint-Casimir.

A small house exploded into flames, leaving behind five charred bodies for the police to pull from the rubble.

Three teenagers, the children of one of the couples who died in the fire, were discovered in a shed behind the house, alive but heavily drugged.