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Shawville - Quebec
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Area Information
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Shawville is a village in the Pontiac Regional County Municipality in western Quebec, approximately 75 km west of Gatineau. With an overwhelmingly anglophone community, in a province that is overwhelmingly French-speaking, Shawville has been the site of several conflicts between local shopkeepers and the Office québécois de la langue française over the province's language laws.
- At the end of the 1860s, a group of citizens from Clarendon Centre, under the leadership of James Shaw separated the municipality from the township of Clarendon. They named it "Shawville" after James Shaw promised to donate 0.8 ha of land to the new municipality. - Shawville was officially established in 1874 and was populated by Irish Protestant immigrants. Shaw, who had settled in the area in 1843, was the first mayor, serving from 1856 to 1877.


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