The parish of Saint-Clément-de-Tourville, which served as a mission from 1913-1919, was officially founded in 1919 by an abbot named Bernard-Édouard Martin.

In 1856, a farmer from Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies settled near Black Lake and lowered its water level by digging an outlet in hopes of making a pasture.

A roundhouse was built, in addition to a carbon chute, a water reservoir, and a train station named in the honor of former Chief Justice of Lower Canada James Monk.

This area, then known as Beaubien, gave work to about sixty people to cut and drive logs along the river.

In 1927, the Canadian National Railway opened a sidetrack that would allow wood to be loaded without disrupting train traffic.