"Lac-Mégantic" redirects here. For the lake the town is named after, see Lake Mégantic. For the 2013 rail derailment, fire, and explosion, see Lac-Mégantic rail disaster. For other uses, see Mégantic.
Lac-Mégantic was a tourist destination and a producer of forestry products, furniture, Masonite doors, particleboard, and architectural granite before July 6, 2013, when the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster led to a massive fire and deadly explosion of petroleumtank cars that destroyed many downtown buildings and killed 47 people.
History
Main Avenue (Avenue Principale) in 1910.
Prior to contact with Europeans, the region was inhabited by the Abenaki. Archaeological digs found that the Amerindians had been in the region for over 12,000 years, making this the oldest known site of human occupation in Quebec.[5] The name of Mégantic comes from the Abenaki word "namesokanjik" which translates to "place where the fish are held."[6]
The first known European to discover the region was a Catholicmissionary, Father Druillettes of the Society of Jesus, who arrived in 1646. He came to convert the Abenaki.[6]
The first colonists to settle in the region came two centuries later, around 1850, and were of French Canadian or Scottish origin.[5]
Nearby Agnès, founded in 1895, was named after Susan Agnes Bernard, the widow of Prime Minister of Canada Sir John A. Macdonald. It merged with Mégantic in 1907.[6] Macdonald and his wife had visited the area in 1879.[6] Mégantic was renamed Lac-Mégantic in 1958, after the adjacent Lake Mégantic, located on the municipality's southern boundary. Lac-Mégantic consisted of two Roman Catholic parishes, Sainte-Agnès and Notre-Dame-de-Fatima.
An important figure of Lac-Mégantic was Joseph Édouard Eugène Choquette, a priest, who, in his spare time, was an amateur scientist. He was the catalyst for the creation of an electric lighting system which, on the eve of Christmas in 1898, illuminated the entire city; and a power company. Father Choquette was also an amateur photographer.[7]
Donald Morrison case
The first mayor (1885-1888) of Mégantic was Malcolm MacAuley, who was linked to the Donald Morrison case. Morrison's family had immigrated from the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland and had settled locally in a largely Canadian Gaelic-speaking farming community.[6] Donald Morrison moved out west to work as a cowboy on a ranch, sending money home to pay off the family debts. When he returned home, he found his family had lost their farm after they had signed a bad debt deal with Mayor MacAuley, the wealthiest resident in the town at the time.[6] A barn belonging to the new owner was burned to the ground, and Donald Morrison was immediately charged with arson. A bounty of $25 was placed on Morrison, and an American bailiff was paid $2.50 a day to track him down.[6] The bailiff was killed in a gunfight with Morrison on the town's main street. Morrison was chased through the woods for another ten months before being wounded, captured, and imprisoned. He died of tuberculosis five years later.[6]
At approximately 01:15 EDT,[8][9] on July 6, 2013, an unattended 73-car[10][11][12]freight train carrying crude oil ran away and derailed near the downtown area of Lac-Mégantic, causing multiple tank cars to catch fire and explode. Forty-seven people were killed or presumed killed[13] in the explosion and ensuing blaze, making the derailment Canada's deadliest rail disaster since the St-Hilaire train disaster in 1864.[14] More than 30 buildings in the town's centre were destroyed, including the town's library and archives.[9][15] The police launched a criminal investigation,[16] charging the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway and three workers with criminal negligence. Of the 39 downtown buildings still standing as of December 2014, thirty-six are to be demolished due to petroleum contamination of the underlying grounds.[17]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lac-Mégantic had a population of 5,747 living in 2,938 of its 3,143 total private dwellings, a change of 1.6% from its 2016 population of 5,654. With a land area of 21.98 km2 (8.49 sq mi), it had a population density of 261.5/km2 (677.2/sq mi) in 2021.[18]
In 2021, the median age of Lac-Mégantic was 53.6 and 87% of the population were 15 years of age and over.[3]
Residents whose sole native language was French numbered 5,705 (98%), while those with only English as their first language were 60 (1%), 40 people (0.7%) had another language as their mother tongue and 20 people (0.3%) counted both French and English as their first language.
Government
Municipal
The mayor of Lac-Mégantic is Jean-Guy Cloutier, who was elected in a special election in 2015 to succeed retiring mayor Colette Roy-Laroche.[19] Due to the rail disaster, the provincial government of Quebec had delayed the municipal election in Lac-Mégantic from its regular timing concurrent with the 2013 municipal elections; the next election will, however, be held normally in 2017. Roy-Laroche, a former schoolmaster, was nicknamed "the granite lady" (French: la dame de granit) for her handling of the derailment and its aftermath.[20][21] The town council is made up of councillors representing six electoral districts.[22][23]
Various other factories existed in the past, including a paper-printing plant; a sash-and-door factory; saw mills; and a butter, cheese, and cheese box factory.
The region's economy in its early days was propelled by the logging industry due to the vast swaths of old-growth forests. Many related industries operated in the region, including lumber (Nantais Mill), the furniture industry and the pulp and paper industry. Lake Mégantic was used for log floating, with a steamboat used to tow the logs to the sawmill. The first steamboat in the region, named the "Lena", was built by George Flint in 1881.
At the time of the industrial revolution, rural and working classes made up the majority of Mégantic's population. In 1907, the town had 2600 people and the daily wage for a labourer was around C$1 to C$1.50. The working class lived in the northern district of the city, while those in liberal professions, as well as store clerks and employees of financial institutions lived in the central part of the city (downtown).
The first bank branch in the town was the People's Bank of Halifax, which opened in December 1893. Its first manager was a Mr. Aitkens from Cookshire. The bank was acquired by Bank of Montreal in 1905 and a new building constructed that same year.[29] The branch closed in 2001 and was sold to Banque Nationale;[30][31] the 5193 Frontenac Street building later housed legal aid offices. Only a broken, charred shell remained after the 2013 Lac-Mégantic derailment burned much of the historic downtown[32] but some legal records secured in the historic bank's vault survived the fire.[33] The Eastern Townships Bank, established in Sherbrooke in 1859, opened a Mégantic office in 1904 and acquired its own building at Frontenac and Thibodeau in 1910. That bank was acquired by the Canadian Bank of Commerce in 1912; the local branch with its distinctive architectural columns closed during the Great Depression in 1935.[34]
Media
A weekly newspaper, L'Écho de Frontenac, is published in the town[35] and one radio station, CJIT-FM 106.7, operates from a local studio.
The Lac-Mégantic lakeshore is host to the Complexe Baie des Sables beachfront park, the annual Traversée internationale du lac Mégantic swim meet in August and the Grand tour du lac Mégantic cycle tour each June.
The most popular activities for tourists are hunting and fishing.
Education
Lac Mégantic is home to a junior college, Centre d’études collégiales de Lac-Mégantic, which is affiliated with the Cégep Beauce-Appalaches. The college offers both technical and pre-university training programs including an astrophysics program, which is the only one of its kind in Quebec. It also has a vocational training centre, the Centre de formation professionnelle Le Granit.
The town, in the former Commission scolaire des Hauts-Cantons (now Centre de services scolaire des Hauts-Cantons [fr]), has one secondary school, Polyvalente Montignac, and two elementary schools, École Notre-Dame-de-Fatima and École Sacré-Cœur.[36]
Lac-Mégantic is the birthplace of author Nelly Arcan; a new municipal library opened May 5, 2014 bears her name.[38] The library's site (a former Canadelle undergarment factory at 4409, rue Dollard) was chosen in 2010 to accommodate expansion of a collection then over 45,000 volumes.[39] As the original collection was destroyed by fire in 2013, a hundred thousand books were donated by local groups, universities, authors and publishers across Québec.[40][41]
Infrastructure
The Centre de santé et services sociaux du Granit, on Laval Street is the community's main health facility.
In September 1895, the Quebec Central Railway completed a 59.2 miles (95.3 km) branch line from the CP main line at Lac-Mégantic north to Tring Junction, a point from which onward connections were available to Lévis. This line was abandoned in the 1980s and has been removed.
The town was also home to the now-decommissioned Megantic Airport; an industrial park and large sawmill occupy the former airfield.
A municipal sports centre, which opened in 2011, offers a wide range of sporting and educational activities, including a swimming pool and an arena.[42]
Lac-Mégantic is home to the Centre de santé et service sociaux (CSSS) du Granit, which is located on Laval Street. The facility serves the local community and contains a hospital centre for acute care with 35 beds, and a long-term care centre with 44 beds.[43]
^"La nouvelle municipale"(PDF). Lac-Mégantic (municipality). October 2009. pp. 4–5. Archived from the original(municipal newsletter) on 2013-07-18. Retrieved 2013-07-13.
^CSSS du Granit, ed. (2012). "Rapport annuel de gestion 2011-2012"(PDF). Lac-Mégantic, Québec: Centre de santé et de services sociaux du Granit. p. 8. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2014-01-09. Retrieved 2013-07-08.
^"Jumelage" (in French). City Hall, Dourdan, France. Archived from the original on 2018-01-19. Retrieved 2013-07-27.
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