Morin-Heights

Morin-Heights () is a town in the Laurentian Mountains region of Quebec, Canada. It is west of Saint-Sauveur and north of Lachute; municipally, it is within the Regional County Municipality of Les Pays-d'en-Haut. It is primarily a tourist town known for its skiing.

== History == The first European settlers of the municipality were Anglophones of Irish origin, arriving from Ireland around 1850. They were followed by Francophone settlers from Lachute, Saint-Jérôme and Saint-Eustache. The township was named after its founder, 19th-century politician Augustin-Norbert Morin, who had at that point a huge farm of more than on the banks of the Rivière du Nord, built around 1850–1860 and included a home, saw mill, and flour mill. An alternate, less accepted origin for the name Morin concerns an engineer named Morin who was dispatched by the provincial government to survey the region and had hired a Native American named Simon as guide, whose name was used to identify the river flowing through the township. The "Heights" part in the name probably refers to the town's high elevation.