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14-703: The team started as the Saint-Lin-Laurentides Gladiateurs in 1996–1997. The team moved to Sainte-Thérèse , Quebec to become the Sainte-Thérèse Chiefs in 1997–1998. It moved to Laval in 1998–1999, playing at the Colisée de Laval as the Laval Chiefs . During its time at Laval, the team won the Futura Cup in 2001-2002 and 2002–2003. The Laval Chiefs were also featured in a 2004 documentary on

28-633: A group from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and it moved there for the 2006–2007 season, playing at the Colisée Isabelle-Brasseur and renamed from 2006 to 2008 as the St-Jean Summum Chiefs. The Saint-Jean Summum Chiefs won the Futura Cup in 2006–2007, after having played their last two playoff series in their former home, the Colisée de Laval. With a move to Saguenay in 2008, it became known as

42-600: A land area of 9.48 km (3.66 sq mi), it had a population density of 2,798.8/km (7,249.0/sq mi) in 2021. The Commission scolaire de la Seigneurie-des-Mille-Îles (CSSMI) operates Francophone public schools. Some students are zoned to École Plateau Saint-Louis or to École de la Renaissance in Blainville and some are zoned to École secondaire Jean-Jacques-Rousseau in Boisbriand . Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board operates Anglophone public schools: There

56-427: A leader in the equipment market. Inventors of the first pull-type forage harvester in the world with macerating rolls for hay and corn (invented in the 1970s, which would later become important in a Claas vs John Deere proprietary patent lawsuit). After the initial success, more divisions would emerge; concrete silos, maple syrup extraction equipment and agricultural technology development soon followed. Sainte-Thérèse

70-471: A number of piano factories, including Pianos Lesage . Before the General Motors plant arrival in 1966 (in neighbouring Ste-Thérèse Ouest, now Boisbriand), Agricultural and equipment company Machineries Dion was the biggest employer of the region. Steel combines were design and produce from 1940 and beyond. Steel foundry, state of the art workshop, cast iron parts and ingenious thinking made Machineries Dion

84-534: Is also a Paccar plant that manufactures light and medium-duty Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks. Home and garden company, Botanix, originate from Sainte-Thérèse. Founders and brothers, Guy and Wilfred Dion, started a business that would become Pavage Dion and Centre du Jardin Dion. Groupe Rona stepped in and expanded the company to become one of the largest landscaping and flower company in Québec. Sainte-Thérèse formerly had

98-637: Is mostly known as a home for heavy industry , but it is also a centre of recreational and tourist activities. It is near the southern limit of a web of cross-country ski trails which meander through the Laurentides . Heading north, it is possible to undertake several nature-filled days of skiing towards major resort centres such as Mont-Tremblant . During the summer, many of the ski trails are used as dedicated bicycle paths, making it possible to undertake day-long or week-long cycling excursions through unspoiled areas, from one resort area to another, without sharing

112-518: Is served by the Sainte-Thérèse commuter rail station on the Exo (Réseau de transport métropolitain) Saint-Jérôme line . Local bus service is provided by CIT Laurentides . In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Sainte-Thérèse had a population of 26,533 living in 12,686 of its 13,202 total private dwellings, a change of 2.1% from its 2016 population of 25,989 . With

126-621: The Chiefs' enforcers, Les Chiefs . The Chiefs were part of the semi-professional QSPHL (1998–2003) and QSMHL (2003–2004). The team was sold to Genex Communications in 2005-2006 and were rechristened the Summum Chiefs after one of Genex's magazines, Summum . Accordingly, the Laval Chiefs were renamed as the Laval Summum Chiefs for 2005–2006 season. Genex sold the team to

140-590: The Saguenay 98.3, after the local radio station that sponsored the team, CKRS-FM (at the time under ownership of Corus Entertainment .) The players were sold but not the name "Summum Chiefs", which was retained by Genex; the Chiefs name instead transferred to the Saint-Hyacinthe franchise, which became the Saint-Hyacinthe Chiefs . The Saguenay team adopted the name "Marquis" beginning in 2009. Since 2012,

154-576: The parish of Sainte-Thérèse-d'Ávila. On June 1, 1849, the Village of Sainte-Thérèse was created following a request from Louis Marteau, Paul Filiatrault and Joseph-Benjamin Lachaîne to the Terrebonne County Parish Council. The Village will officially become a Town in 1916. The city was for several decades the home of Sicard Industries , the biggest maker of snow blowers in the world. There

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168-481: The right of way with motorized vehicles. On September 23, 1683, in recognition of his military services, Joseph-Antoine Le Febvre de La Barre (governor of New France) granted the seigneury of the Thousand Islands to Michel-Sidrac Dugué de Boisbriand. The exploitation of the seigneury of 9 square miles began in 1714 when Marie-Thérèse Dugué de Boisbriand and her husband Charles Piot de Langloiserie took possession of

182-569: The seigneury. In 1715, Langloiserie died and his wife, not having the energy to take care of the work of colonizing the land, left the Seigneurie abandoned. It was not until 1743 when Suzanne de Langloiserie and her husband Jean-Baptiste Céloron de Blainville took possession of the land. On October 15, 1789, Marie-Anne Thérèse de Blainville, to whom the Seigneury of Blainville was bequeathed jointly with her sister Marie-Hypolite de Blainville, inaugurated

196-647: The team is playing in Jonquière , a borough (arrondissement) of the city of Saguenay , Quebec and is known as the Jonquière Marquis. (As Saint-Jean Summum Chiefs) Sainte-Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se, Quebec Sainte-Thérèse ( French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t teʁɛz] ) is an off-island suburb northwest of Montreal , in southwestern Quebec , Canada, in the Thérèse-De Blainville Regional County Municipality . The town

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