Complex sentence: Prior to the chartering of Donnacona as a town in 1915, the area was named Pointe-Aux-Écureuils a New France Seigneurie that subsisted under the name of Les Écureuils to the surrounding rural parish municipality prior to its final merge with Donnacona in 1967.
Split into simpler sentences: Prior to the chartering of Donnacona as a town in 1915, the area was named Pointe-Aux-Écureuils. A New France Seigneurie existed under the name of Les Écureuils as a surrounding rural parish municipality prior to its final merge with Donnacona in 1967.