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Terrebonne is a city of Quebec (Canada), a northern suburb of Montreal located in the Regional County Municipality (RCM) Les Moulins in the extended administrative area of Lanaudière1. Between 1986 and 2013, its population increased from 24,864 to 110,062 inhabitants, thanks to a merger with the cities of Lachenaie and La Plaine on August 22, 2001. In 2014, Terrebonne was recognized as the tenth largest city in population. in Quebec3. The name Terrebonne comes from the name of the seigneury of Terrebonne, whose existence preceded that of the city. There are three hypotheses to explain its origin: 1. The first, retained by the Commission de toponymie du Québec, would have the name Daulier Deslandes would have given this name because of the fertility of the land there4. The problem with this hypothesis is that André Daulier Deslandes never set foot in America, so he could not have known if the land was fertile, especially since the seigneury has no everything was colonized at that time. 2. A second, sometimes put forward by the tourist guides of the island of Moulins, would like that name was chosen for "public" purposes, because the colonists would be attracted by a place whose name suggests that the lands could be fertile. This is similar to the idea that Erik the Red would have named Greenland so to give people the urge to go there. 3. A third has the merit of explaining why in his deed of concession the seigniory is spelled "Terbonne". At that time, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, a famous French traveler with whom Daulier traveled, eventually became the Baron of Aubonne (now in the canton of Vaud, but at the time, subject country of the canton of Bern , Confederation of XIII cantons). This sounds like "good water", although etymologically, it comes from the name of the river Aubonne, which comes from Celtic albona, which means "white river" (alba, white and ona, river) 5. It is probably to imitate his friend Tavernier and his spelling barony that the name of Terbonne would have been chosen, while replacing the "water" by the "earth", to make the antithesis of the barony of Aubon

History It was in 1673 that the seigniory of Terrebonne was granted for the first time to a French notable, André Daulier Deslandes, secretary general of the Compagnie des Indes Occidentales. He never came to live on his land. In 1720, it was the abbot Louis Lepage of Sainte-Claire who became the lord. Joseph Masson acquired the lordship in 1832 and developed the commercial and industrial activity. Twenty years later comes the construction of the first bridge of Terrebonne, a wooden bridge inaugurated in 1834. This bridge connects Terrebonne and Île Jésus, passing over the Rivière des Mille Îles. There are two entities on the territory: a commercial pole, Terrebonne, and an agricultural pole, Saint-Louis de Terrebonne. In 1985, these two entities merge. The history of the new city of Terrebonne corresponds to that of the colonization and expansion of the three sectors that compose it: Lachenaie, La Plaine and Terrebonne, previously three distinct cities.

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