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Saint-Adrien-d'Irlande
A Historical City
Saint-Adrien-d’Irlande is a small village of nearly 400 inhabitants who built their house on a 52.80 km2 territory. Of an almost perfect rectangular shape, this village is located about 15 kilometres from Thetford Mines. Even though the municipality of the canton d’Ireland was formed in 1855, Saint-Adrien-d’Irlande was created only in the 1980s, more than a century after the township was separated in two municipalities in 1872. At that time, there was Ireland-Partie-Nord and Ireland-Partir-Sud. As it was written, it’s only in 1982 that Ireland-Partie-Nord became Saint-Adrien-d’Irlande. The ancestral houses still standing in the village are as many witnesses to this historical period of the region.
