Saint-Adelphe

Saint-Adelphe is a picturesque community in the Middle-Mauricie at the southeastern limit of the Laurentian shield, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, in the regional county municipality of Mékinac. The main village of the municipality is on the east side of the Batiscan River, and there is a hamlet opposite, on the east side of the river. It was home to about 900 people in 2021.

Economy
In the 21st century, its economy is based on recreational and tourism activities (vacationing, camping, hunting and sport fishing, mountain biking, snowmobiles), agriculture, and forestry. Boating downstream from Chute du Sept (near the railway bridge over the Batiscan River) is very popular.

History
A man named Jeanot, designated as Indian in the 1861 census of Saint-Stanislas, was one of the first residents of Saint-Adelphe. Some other pioneer families had settled in the area in the 1860s. Being part of the seigneury of Sainte-Anne, the colonization of the territory of Saint-Adelphe was delayed by the Price Brothers company, which wanted to make industrial exploitation of the area. standing timber. Most of the pioneers settling in Saint-Adelphe came from Saint-Stanislas where few lots of land were then available for young men entering the labour market; young men had to move further away from the St. Lawrence River in order to hope to be awarded a lot or to acquire one. In 1885, the canonical decree was authorized for the creation of a new parish.

The civil foundation took place in 1891 when the parish of Saint-Adelphe had 56 families. The railway section of the National Transcontinental Railway (integrated into the Canadian National in 2019) circulated in Saint-Adelphe for 100 years, from 1907 to 2007. The majestic railway bridge spanning the Batiscan River is a symbol of the great epic of the railways. The Saint-Adelphe train station enabled families to supply their close relatives who became pioneers of Abitibi at the start of the 20th century.

Get in
The village of Saint-Adelphe is accessible by road, by light crafts (via Batiscan River), snowmobiles and all terrain vehicles.

Route 352 connecting Sainte-Thècle and Saint-Stanislas passes on the west side of the river.

By car

 * From Montreal (. Time: 2 hr 32 min. From Montreal, take highway 40 (north shore) eastbound, to Trois-Rivières (Cap-de-la-Madeleine sector); Route 352 (northbound), crossing the villages of Saint-Maurice, Saint-Narcisse and Saint-Stanislas, up to the village of Saint-Adelphe.
 * From Quebec City (. Time: 1 hr 23 min. From Quebec City, take highway 40 westbound to Grondines then take route 363 through the village of Saint-Casimir, then the village of Saint-Ubalde; turn left on Route Bureau, which becomes Chemin du Rang St-Joseph in St-Adelphe, to the village of Saint-Adelphe.

Eat

 * Restaurant


 * Sugar bushes

Cope

 * Municipal parks
 * Public Library
 * Multifunctional centre
 * Pleasure craft launching ramp
 * Dump station
 * Multifunctional centre
 * Pleasure craft launching ramp
 * Dump station
 * Dump station
 * Dump station