In 1646, the Governor of New-France at the time, Charles Jacques Huault de Montmagny, gave the concession to the nuns hospitallers, administrators of Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, and thereafter, it was resold in 1683 to Lord Jacques Aubert. The estate covered a land area of around 90 square miles or nearly 60,000 acres. The 'seigneurie des Grondines' was one of the oldest lordship in the province of Quebec, and was initially granted in 1637 by the Company of New France to Duchess Marie-Madeleine de Vignerot de Pontcourlay, Dame d'atours of Marie de' Medici, and niece of Cardinal Richelieu, chief minister of Louis XIV. Deschambault, a village of sailors, Le Soleil. 'Everything was happening on the river !' says Father Jacques Paquin, coordinator of the Deschambault Navigators Committee.'Įven after the opening of the Chemin du Roy, a route considered difficult, the seaway continued to be used more than the land route. Lawrence has long been the only way to access the village. At one time, Deschambault was said to have 'a pilot every two houses.' Very early on 'the taste for the sea' developed there, because the St. History Saint-Joseph church built between 18 according to the plans of the architect Thomas Baillairgé The patron saint of Deschambault-Grondines is Saint Joseph. Some of the famous people who lived here include filmmaker Denys Arcand, who was born in Deschambault. In 2006 the local Fromagerie des Grondines was built, it is an organic cheese farm open to the public. In 1842 the church Saint-Charles-Borromée was built in Grondines.

The windmill was first a flour mill, and then a lighthouse. In 1674, The Grondines windmill was built and is the oldest windmill in Québec.

'Grondines' is from the French verb ' gronder', meaning to rumble or roar. The name Grondines was named by Samuel de Champlain himself. The municipality was incorporated in 2002 by the merger of the formerly independent villages of Deschambault and Grondines. Deschambault-Grondines is a municipality of about 2,200 inhabitants in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in Portneuf Regional County Municipality.

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