Saint-Tite, a French-speaking town of 4,000 inhabitants, is backed by the foothills of the Laurentians, between Grandes-Piles and Saint-Adelphe, northeast of Grand-Mère. A large body of water, Lake Pierre-Paul, bathes the northeast part of the territory.
The first real inhabitants of the area were Métis, Algonquins and Montagnais who lived near Kapibouska Lake. In 1833, François-d'Assise Cossette settled in this place, which from then on would be known as Lac-à-Cossette or Lac-des-Cossette. Several families began to clear the territory around 1835, coming from Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, Champlain, Grondines, Neuville and Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures. In 1851, the Saint-Juste-de-Kapibouska mission was created, a name taken in part from that of the lake. Of Algonquian origin, this name means camp site where there are reeds, kapi, camp site and baska or bouska, rushes, reeds.
The name of the parish of Saint-Tite is attested in 1859 and will be established thanks to the canonical and civil erection which occurred in 1863 following its detachment from Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade and Saint-Stanislas-de -the-River-of-Envies. The post office opened in 1859 and the parish municipality established in 1863 will take up the parish name which celebrates a companion of Saint Paul, who converted him in the 1st century by entrusting him with the task of organizing the Church of Ephesus.
As the population of the municipality of the parish of Saint-Tite had increased considerably at the beginning of the 20th century, from 890 inhabitants in 1862 to more than 3000 in 1900, the town of Saint-Tite was detached from it in 1910. In 1998, the Municipality of the parish and the City came together to form the new City of Saint-Tite.
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