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Val-Brillant
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Val-Brillant () is a municipality in eastern Quebec, Canada, at the base of the Gaspé peninsula. On the southern shores of the Lake Matapedia, Val-Brillant is part of the Matapédia Valley.
Key facts
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- Val-Brillant
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- Municipality
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- Vue du lac Matapédia et de Val-Brillant.JPG
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- 120x80px
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- 100x80px
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- Location within La Matapédia RCM.
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- Canada Eastern Quebec
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- Location in eastern Quebec.
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- Country
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- Province
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- Region
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- Bas-Saint-Laurent
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- RCM
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- La Matapédia
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- Settled
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- 1872
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- Constituted
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Demographics
- Government
- Municipal council
- See also
- References
- External links
Val-Brillant () is a municipality in eastern Quebec, Canada, at the base of the Gaspé peninsula. On the southern shores of the Lake Matapedia, Val-Brillant is part of the Matapédia Valley.
The place was previously known by many other names: Lac-Matapédia; Brochu or Brouché, followed by Lac-à-Brochu until 1871 (after Pierre Brochu (1795–1871), the first settler in the valley in what is now Sayabec); McGowe (after an engineer working on the railroad); Cedar Hall from 1876 to 1912 (referring to the large hangar built from pieces of cedar that served as a coal shed for the railway); and Saint-Pierre-du-Lac (in honour of Pierre Brillant (1852–1911), missionary in the Matapedia Valley from 1881 to 1889 and parish priest from 1889 to his death).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Val-Brillant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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