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 DISTRICT-TOWN OF THE DISTRICT OF KAMOURDSKA. 
 
 The District of Kamouraska oomprises the Counties of Kamouraska and Temiscouala. 
 The District-town ought not therefore to be at the centre of one, but as near as possible to the 
 centre of the two Counties. It ought also to be one of the most important villages of the District- 
 Two localities contend for that honor, ST. LOUIS de Kamouraska and PRASERVILLE in 
 Riviere du Loup. The first of these two places is situated at the centre of the County of Ka- 
 mouraska ; the second is close to the boundary line separating the two counties. 
 
 In 1846, when the District of Kamouraska was formed, a Report of the Legislative Assem- 
 bly, recommended Riviere du Loup, the parish which includes the village of Praserville, as the 
 District-town. (See Appendix of 1846, vol. V, letter I, English edition). In 1849 the County 
 of Temisoouata was included in that of Rimouski ; it then was alreac'y contemplated to make 
 of this last county a district by itself distinct and separate from that of Kamoura!>ka. 
 
 The member for Rimouski, fearing no doubt that the choice of Riviere du I<oup as the 
 District-town would prevent the proclamation and setting apart of Rimouski, joined the member 
 for Kamouraska in demanding, and notwithstanding the above report, they obtained the selection 
 of St. LOUIS de Kamouraska situate at the centre of the county of that name, as the District- 
 town of the District of Kamouraska. 
 
 Inspectors of Jails and Grand Jurors of the District have since often recommended Its 
 removal to the village of PRASERVILLE in Riviere du Loup. 
 
 These recommendations and the numerous petitions presented to the Government on that 
 subject have, up to this time, received for answer that it was impossible to incur the expense of 
 erecting new buildings for a Courthouse and Jail at PRASERVILLE when they already existed 
 at Kamouraska. 
 
 These buildings no longer exist : they have been lately de»itroypd by lire : and therefore 
 there remains but to decide upon the respective merits of the two localities, which will at the 
 )iext session contend for the honor of being the capital of the District. 
 
 
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 Prom the upper extremity of (he district Iq 
 
 ST. LOUIS (vith ntilroad) Similes. FBASf.RVII.f.K (with niilroaJ) . 45milt-s. 
 
 Froiq the lower extreiqity of the district to 
 ST. LOUIS (36 of which without railroad) 60 miles. FBASRRVILLP (without railroad) 36 milec 
 
 Difference ...39miles. 9 tniltfif.' 
 
 Against ST. WVIS in favor of FRASFBVILLE, 30 miles. , 
 
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frum the southetu extremity of Teiiiisvuiiala where llieru wv iiii|iurliiiit uiul ru|)ully ilirreusiii^f relllvitii'iils (u 
 ST. LOUIS (66 of which without ruilroa(l> 90 ifiileit. 
 FRASERVILLE (without railroad) 66 miles. 
 
 Difference against ST. f.OUIS. 
 
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 CojT or TaA.siPOBT— 
 
 From the lower extremity of the (liatrict to, anil hack : 
 
 ST. LOUIS. FRASKRVILLE. 
 
 iHt clanii $4.80,(1) $2.00 
 
 2nd clasB 4.35 (1) 2.00 
 
 Ftoin tho establishments on Lake TemlKouutii to, and back : 
 
 ST. LOUIS. FRASEKVII.LK. 
 
 1st class $6..'X)(1) .?3.00 
 
 2nd class 6.35 (1) 3.00 
 
 From the upper extremity of the district to, and back : 
 
 ST. LOULS. KRASERVILLK. 
 
 1st class $1.15(1) $1.70 
 
 2nd class 1.00(1) 0.90(2) 
 
 N. B.— Difference in clas.«ie« exists in railroad alone. 
 
 1861. 
 .210.58 
 . 18561 
 
 2o. Population : 
 
 1846. 1851. 
 
 County of Kamouraskii 16419 19;«75 
 
 County of TemiMouala 11005 14419 
 
 The difference which in 1846 was flH has reduced in 1861 to 2499. 
 
 Increase From 1846 to 1851. From 1851 to 1861. 
 
 Kamourasku, 18 per oent. 8 5;8 per cent. 
 
 Temiscouata, 31i per cent. 28.1 per cent. 
 
 The population uf Temiscouata in the first period incrt.-a!>e(l I3i per i^pnl faster then tliat of 
 Katnouraska, and in the second period 19^ per cent. Taking the increassf tn progre.sa at the !<anie 
 late, a supposition which the above figures sliows to be unfair lor Teiniscouala, the popiilaiioii 
 of tiie two counties will next census (1871) be 
 
 Temiscouata 23517 
 
 Kamouraska 22892 
 
 But these calculations to prove that the population of Teiniscnuuta iihhough lcs.'< in 1801 
 will in four years exceed that of Katnouraska are useless, as the great inajoriiy of the popiila- 
 tioii of the two Counties demand that the di.strict-town be placed at FRASP2RVILLK in Uivieie 
 du Loi:p. These demands, proportioning the populatioit with that of iliu proprietors who signed 
 ihem according to the last census, are as follows : 
 
 For FRASERVILLE. For KAMOUR.ASKA. 
 
 All tho County of Temiscouata 18.561 Thu founly of Kumoiira!<k;i 'JIO.W 
 
 Portions of the following parishes in Kamou • Less lliu portions nf tlin |)iinslie< in s;tid 
 
 raska demanding Fraserville : Coiinly which demaml rru.serviilc : 
 
 St.AndrA 1659 St. Andre 1639 
 
 St. Alexandre 1735 Si. Alexaiidrc 173."i 
 
 Ste. HfileiiB 635 . Ste. Helcne 635 
 
 St. Paschal 300 .St. Paschiil .SOO 
 
 4329 
 
 22890 
 
 4329 
 
 1H729 
 
 Majority for FRASERVILLE-6161. 
 
 OTHER CONSIDEKATIONS. 
 
 The ground gratuitously obtained for the Court-hou!^e and Jail at Fraserville i.s double the 
 extent of that purchased at St. Louis. 
 
 The population of Fraserville which in 1849 did not exceed 500 inhnbilanis was 1210 in 
 lEJI That ff St. Louis was in 1881 almost the same as in 1849, namely 842. ThcGraiu' 
 Tri-r.i: railroad has its terminus at Fraserville and j>asses at 5 miles from St. Louis. Fraservk ^ 
 has a large, good and safe harbour for vessels of^ the heaviest tonnage. St. Louis has iioiie^\ 
 Fraserville possesses a telegraph office ; there is none in all the County of Kamouraska ; and at 
 MIC of the last terms of the Criminal Court a messenger had to be sent from St. Louis to Fra. 
 serville, distance of 24 miles, to telegraph to Quebec for an advocate to go down antt conduct 
 
 (1) 'In these prices the vehicle from St. Paschal to St. Louis and back is put to 75c. but when roads are bad it 
 rises to sometimes as much as $2.00 and early in the spring, and late in the fall the roads get so bad that it becomes 
 impossible to obtain vehicles of any sort, and the distance of 5 miles between the two places has to be walked 
 across fields. 
 
 (2) The Grand Tiunk terminus beiii;; in the villiigc of Fraserville, \vi!> than one mil." from the church, second 
 cln.s.i never take.! vehicles. 
 
^aoiiiu jiiiporluiit (.-ruwii busiiic!<!<. Fruscrville priilus in sewruT gooif liu(cU, unv of wditb U iii- 
 t'(-rior to none out of the lar^e cilii'8 ; St. Louis has no establishment deserving that title. A 
 inagnirincnt river crosses Fraservillc and otters within the villagi; several valuable water powers ; 
 incrchuntable timber and fire-wood may there be easily procured and at a low price ; quarrieii of 
 building and lime stone exist within the village. Soft water can ccarcely be obtnined at Srt, 
 l<oiiis ; timber, fire-wood and building materials in general command there exhorbitant prices. 
 
 FruAcrville is a Military depot by the Militia Act, and has long been used as such by the 
 Imperial Government. At Fraserville is one of the piers constructed by Government at a coAt 
 of £39,536 ; and al»o the terminus of the splendid and costly road made by the Province and 
 which is the only cornmunicaiion by land between ('anada and New-Brunswick and the eastern 
 part of the State of Maine. Besides that att'orded by the Grand Trunk, Fraserville in summer 
 hits constant and regular communications by steamboats with the Saguenay and Quebec. Fra- 
 serville possesses amongst other industrial establishment of every description, a foundry, a tan- 
 nery of considerable sive, a manufacture of black leather, a carding, fulling and pressing mills, 
 u dye houi^e, one of the largest and finest (lour mills of Lower Canada, vuTuabIc and extenr.ive 
 ^aw mills. It boasts uf two churches, on(! of the Catholic and the other of the Protestants de- 
 nominations. 1 he Catholic yet unfinished has already cost £7,000. 
 
 Fraserville is the only place from Quebec to Metis where there is a british populatiou. It is 
 ilie center of an imporlant and rapidly increasing commerce with New Brunswick, the Slate ol 
 Maine, the Saguenay and even with part of the inhabitants of Kamouraska. 
 
 To conclude let us say that the County uf Kamouraska, the old settlements of which are, 
 It is admitted, rich and prospcrouii, pojisesses little or no wild land worth settling ; that its inha- 
 bitants nave formed associations lo promote emigration from their parishes to the Sa-^uenay ; 
 ihat lliey leave in considerable number for the Sagaenay, Lake St. John and even for the County 
 of Temiscouata ; and that some of them lately petitioned for the survey and partition of Town- 
 ships in Taniisc (uata : whilst on the other hand more than three fourths of the County of Temis- 
 joiiHta is yet to be settled, that VViiworth, Viger, Denonville, Begon, Armand et Demers, the 
 only townships in that County yet surveyed, and the Sf igniorics of Temiscouata and Mada- 
 waska which e.xtend sixty miles in the interior of the same county are being opened up and 
 M'tik'd with rapidity by, aujongst others, cinigranls from the Counties of Kamouraska and 
 risk't, and Canadians returning from ihc United States and Madawu«ka. 
 
 Fraservilli', ;i8lli January IS63. 
 
 J. B. F'OUMOT, 
 
 Miivor of Temiscouatg^. 
 
 JOS. EUS. HUDON, M. D., 
 
 WM. HAYWAKD, 
 
 .1. A. ROY, 
 
 ELZ. PELLETIER, C. M., 
 
 L. (i. CASAULT, 
 
 ELIE ANGERS, N. P., 
 
 HEN J. DIONNE, Lietit. C. M., 
 
 L. A. YiViii:, 
 
 I.. RINFRET, W. 1)., 
 
 (i. N. HEAUMEU, N. P., 
 
 JOS. LEVEQIJE, 
 
 THOS. JONES, N. P., 
 
 E. ERASER. 
 
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