Saint-Fidèle
village in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada, former municipality
The municipality of Saint-Fidèle (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ fidɛl]) of Charlevoix, formerly the Parish Municipality of Saint-Fidèle-de-Mont-Murray, located at approximately 10.6 kilometers east of the town of La Malbaie, was merged with the latter on 1 January 2000.
History
The parish of Saint-Fidèle was erected on the canonical plan on June 10, 1850, its first resident priest was granted to the population on September 17, 1855, and the municipality of Saint-Fidèle-de Mount Murray was erected on the civil plan on July 1, 1855. The first settler to settle there in 1834 was Louis Dallaire. The first chapel of Saint-Fidèle was blessed by the parish priest Augustin Beaudry of La Malbaie, in 1853. It was enlarged in 1856, but it quickly became too small. Louis Dallaire decided to give his land to build the village church. The beginning of the construction was in 1872 to be finalized in 1883. The municipality of Saint-Fidèle neighboured the villages of Cap-à-l'Aigle, Black River (Saint-Siméon) and Rivière-aux- Ducks (Baie Sainte-Catherine) which formed municipalities afterwards.
The term Saint-Fidèle refers to Fidèle de Sigmaringen.
The economy of Saint-Fidèle from the beginning of colonization in the late 1920s
The first concern of the settlers who settled at Saint-Fidèle was that of satisfying their needs; they did it with the help of agriculture.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Saint-Fidèle” is village in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada, former municipality. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Saint-Fidèle, village and Malbaie, not as a finished interpretation.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3462153. VIAF identifies the subject as 148877139. Authority coordinates are 47.737, -69.995. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000, 1850, 1855 and 1834.
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