page_title: Saint-Victor, Quebec
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Saint-Victor, Quebec / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Visit of the Honourable Lise Thibault for Saint-Victor's 150th anniversary Français&#160;: Visite de l'Honorable Lise Thibault pour le 150ème de Saint-Victor
context_page_description: Saint-Victor is a municipality in the Robert-Cliche Regional County Municipality in the centre of the Beauce area, part of the Chaudière-Appalaches administrative region in Quebec, Canada. Saint-Victor's population is 2,430.
context_section_description: The area was first settled as Tring township municipality, established in 1804. Colonization peaked between 1834 and 1838. Settlers came from the neighboring areas of Saint-François (Beauceville), Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Lauzon, and Bellechasse.
  The Tring township municipality was created in 1845, dissolved in 1847, and reestablished in 1855. In 1864 it split into the Saint-Victor-de-Tring and Saint-Éphrem-de-Tring municipalities. Saint-Victor-de-Tring was named after a Catholic parish, which was established in 1848 and became canonical in 1852. The parish included parts of Saint-François-de-Beauce parish and of Tring and Broughton townships. It was named after Pope Saint Victor I because the first chapel's construction started on July 28, Saint Victor's feast day.
  On March 1, 1922, Saint-Victor-de-Tring split into two municipalities, the village and the parish. Originally called Saint-Victor-de-Tring, the village municipality was renamed Saint-Victor in 1955. On December 31, 1996, the municipalities of the village and the parish merged again to form the current municipality of Saint-Victor.
  Fires destroyed much of the village in 1897, 1916, 1931, 1941, 1948 and 1958.
caption: The Honorable Lise Thibault, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, visiting Saint-Victor in 2002
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