Originally, Sainte-Adèle was a “mission”, a vast territory north of the seigneury of Mille-Îles and the Rivière à Simon. Monseigneur Bourget had established the township of Abercrombie as a “mission” in September 1846. After the Conquest, the townships, and therefore the cantons, had succeeded to the seigneuries of the old French regime. At the end of 1852, the arrival of the first resident priest, Éphrem Thérien, gave Sainte-Adèle its parish status. In colonized countries, it is the Catholic Church, and not the State, which determines the organization of the territory. Sainte-Adèle was therefore originally more than just a parish. The mission even reached Lac des Sables. If the founder, Augustin-Norbert Morin, gave the first name of his wife, Adèle Raymond, to this "mission", several other terms appeared. According to stations, post offices, chapels, etc., not without creating some confusion.
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