Iberville (Quebec Provincial Electoral District)
Iberville is a provincial electoral district in the Montérégie region of the province of Quebec, Canada, and is located south of Montreal. It includes part of the city of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, as well as Mont Saint-Grégoire, Rougemont, Marieville and Saint-Césaire.
It was created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada).
In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Saint-Pie to Saint-Hyacinthe.
It was named after former New France explorer Pierre LeMoyne d'Iberville. Note Manitoba also has a provincial electoral district named Iberville; and there is also a federal Iberville electoral district.
Read more about Iberville (Quebec Provincial Electoral District): Members of The Legislative Assembly / National Assembly, Election Results
Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or electoral:
“With respect to a true culture and manhood, we are essentially provincial still, not metropolitan,—mere Jonathans. We are provincial, because we do not find at home our standards; because we do not worship truth, but the reflection of truth; because we are warped and narrowed by an exclusive devotion to trade and commerce and manufacturers and agriculture and the like, which are but means, and not the end.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)