Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier is a municipality in the Capitale-Nationale

Capitale-Nationale

Capitale-Nationale is one of 17 administrative regions of Quebec, Canada. Quebec City, Quebec's centre of government, is located in this region. It has a land area of 18,638.7 km2...

 region of Quebec, Canada, located in the Jacques-Cartier River

Jacques-Cartier River

The Jacques-Cartier River is a river in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is 161 km long and its source is Jacques-Cartier Lake in Laurentides Wildlife Reserve, and flows in a predominantly southern direction before ending in the Saint Lawrence River at Donnacona, about 30 km upstream...

 valley. It is home to the Canadian Forces Base Valcartier

CFB Valcartier

Canadian Forces Base Valcartier is a Canadian Forces Base located in the municipality of Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, approximately north of Quebec City...

 since World War I.

History

In 1647, Robert Giffard de Moncel

Robert Giffard de Moncel

Robert Giffard de Moncel was a French surgeon and apothecary who became a prestigious colonist and businessman and eventually a nobleman of New France....

 was granted the Saint-Gabriel seignory that became property of the Jesuits in 1667 and Crown property in 1800. Around 1816, John Neilson

John Neilson

John Neilson was a Scots-Quebecer editor of the newspaper La Gazette de Québec/The Quebec Gazette and a politician.- Biography :...

 (1776-1848), together with Andrew Stuart

Andrew Stuart (Canadian politician)

Andrew Stuart was a lawyer and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born at Cataraqui in 1785, the son of Anglican priest John Stuart, a United Empire Loyalist, and studied with the Reverend John Strachan and then at Union College in New York...

and Louis Moquin, Quebec lawyers, obtained some 50 concessions in the Saint-Gabriel seignory. This marked the start of the Val-Cartier settlement that was intended to receive Irish and Scottish colonizers.

In 1832, the Parish of Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier was formed when it was detached from Sainte-Catherine(-de-la-Jacques-Cartier) and Charlesbourg. In 1845, the Municipality of Valcartier was created in 1845 but abolished in 1847. The Parish Municipality of Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier was officially established in 1855, then divided in 1862 into two municipalities: Saint-Gabriel-Ouest and Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier.

In 1985, Saint-Gabriel-Ouest and Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier were merged again to form the current municipality.

Demographics

Population trend:

• Population in 2006: 2827 (2001 to 2006 population change: 25.3 %)
• Population in 2001: 2256
• Population in 1996: 2204
• Population in 1991: 2754

Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 797 (total dwellings: 941)

Mayors of Saint-Gabriel-Ouest

• 1878-1881 : Patrick Cosgrove
• 1881-1882 : Ulric Gauvreau
• 1882-1884 : Thomas Brown
• 1884-1887 : James Burns
• 1887-1890 : Thomas Brown
• 1890-1895 : Samuel Clark
• 1895-1903 : Thomas Brown
• 1903-1909 : Lawrence Corrigan
• 1909-1911 : James Bowles
• 1911-1924 : Robert Hayes
• 1924-1930 : Thomas Knox
• 1931-1932 : Thomas Murphy
• 1932-1933 : James Clark
• 1933 : Albert Corrigan
• 1933-1941 : John Murphy
• 1941-1946 : John McCartney
• 1947-1955 : Cecil Rourke
• 1955-1961 : Simmons Crawford
• 1961-1967 : George Murphy
• 1967-1971 : John McCartney
• 1972-1985 : Donat Rouleau

Mayors of Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier

• 1878-1880 : Arthur Wolf
• 1881 : Thomas Dacres
• 1882 : William B. McBain
• 1883 : Francis Ireland
• 1884-1885 : William B. McBain
• 1886-1888 : Thomas Dacres
• 1889 : David B. McCartney
• 1890 : Charles Jack
• 1891-1896 : John McBain
• 1896-1903 : William B. McBain
• 1903-1905 : Lewis McBain
• 1905-1906 : Thomas Knox
• 1906-1908 : Andrew Brown
• 1908-1914 : Thomas Knox
• 1914-1923 : John McCartney
• 1923-1924 : William Neil
• 1924-1927 : Robert Goodfellow
• 1927-1936 : Alfred J. Hicks
• 1937-1940 : William Goodfellow
• 1941-1946 : Irvin Jack
• 1947-1948 : William Hicks
• 1949-1950 : Neilson McBain
• 1951-1961 : William Hicks
• 1961-1969 : Russel Paquet
• 1969-1988 : Lewis Jack
• 1988- : Brent Montgomery