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Also known as Palmarolle, Quebec

Palmarolle () is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality. It covers 117.87 km2 and had a population of 1,386 as of the Canada 2021 Census. It is considered to have the best agricultural land of the entire Abitibi region.

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Palmarolle
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Municipality
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Downtown Palmarolle
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120x100px
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Location within Abitibi-Ouest RCM
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Canada Western Quebec
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Palmarolle
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Location in western Quebec
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Canada
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Quebec
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Abitibi-Témiscamingue

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Palmarolle () is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality. It covers 117.87 km2 and had a population of 1,386 as of the Canada 2021 Census. It is considered to have the best agricultural land of the entire Abitibi region.

==History== The area began to be colonized in 1911 when the township was surveyed. The completion of the National Transcontinental Railway at La Sarre and Macamic led to further waves of development with the arrival of new settlers in 1916, 1918, and 1929. Following the pattern of other places in the Abitibi, the settlement was named after a historic military figure, François-Charles Bertrand de Palmarole or Palmarolle (1714 ‑ 1760), lieutenant of the La Sarre Regiment and Knight of the Order of Saint Louis. In 1921, the parish was formed and in 1930, the place was incorporated as a municipality.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Palmarolle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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