Сен-Кентен қаласының тарихы мен географиясы

the town

Saint Quentin is a town in northern New Brunswick, Canada. Saint Quentin is in the Restigouche region of the Appalachian Mountains, 50 kilometres west of Mount Carleton, the province's highest elevation. The great majority of individuals in the area speak French. On 1 January 2023, Saint Quentin annexed the local service district (LSD) of St. Martin de Restigouche and part of the LSD of the parish of Saint Quentin Revised census figures have not been released.

In 1897, the Restigouche and Western Railway Company embarked on a project to build a railway linking Campbellton and St Léonard, two towns in northwestern New Brunswick. The progress of its construction sent workers deep into the forest. In 1909, Simon Gallant, an Acadian working as a blacksmith, decided to settle his family by a stream near Five Fingers where he found a stray cow. At the same time, authorities began to worry about the emigration of Québec families to the United States and to Western Canada, resulting in a population decline. Msgr. Joseph Arthur Melanson, the largest settler and missionary in Saint Quentin Parish, originally named Anderson Siding, launched a large program of colonization. Valuing farming and agriculture, he encouraged Acadien and Québécois families to settle in the Restigouche region of New Brunswick on the fertile lands along the length of the newly built train line. The village of Anderson Siding was founded in 1910; its first mass was held in Simon Gallant's round log cabin in the forest. The first chapel was built in 1911, its first post office in 1912, its first school in 1913, and its first church in 1918. The name Anderson Siding was changed to the present name of Saint Quentin in 1919 in commemoration of the Canadian victory in the French town of the same name during the Battle of the Somme in the First World War. Its first hospital, Hôtel Dieu Saint Joseph, was built in 1947 and is still in operation today. Saint Quentin was incorporated as a district in 1947, as a village in 1966, and as a town in 1992.