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![[Scott]](../images/c/ca-qcsct.gif)
image by Masao Okazaki, 26
November 2020See also:
Although its foundation was more recent, it is in the middle of the 18th
century, with the establishment of Nouvelle-Beauce, that the history of Scott
goes back, whose territory is made up of sections of the former seigneuries
Jolliet and Saint-Étienne. .
However, it was at the end of the 19th
century that the place experienced an economic and demographic boom due to the
arrival, in 1875, of the "Lévis et Kennebec" railway built by Charles-Armstrong
Scott and Louis-Napoléon Larochelle. de Saint-Anselme and the operation, from
1879, of a sawmill by Charles Crawford and his daughter Sélina Atkinson. A first
mission was therefore opened in 1881. It obtained the status of parish in 1895
following its detachment from Sainte-Marie, Saint-Isidore and Saint-Bernard. The
same year, the municipality of the parish of Saint-Maxime was officially
recognized. In 1932, it will be divided by the formation of the municipality of
Taschereau-Fortier at the request of the farmers. It will reunite in 1995 under
the name of the Municipality of Scott.
https://www.municipalitescott.com/decouvrez-scott/histoire-et-cartes - Municipal website
A picture on the page of the municipality of Scott, QC, shows that its flag
is a seal on a white field.
https://www.municipalitescott.com
Larger version from FB:
https://scontent-nrt1-1.xx.fbcdn.net
Masao Okazaki, 26 November
2020
