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  • Founded in 1855, under the name of St. Cecilia, in 1874 it became legally known as Salaberry of Valleyfield.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • Salaberry held his ground with a bugler, a mere lad, and made him sound lustily.

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

  • Salaberry and the Canadians had won a victory that has only a few parallels in warlike annals.

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

  • Salaberry, McDonnell, Fitzgibbon, and Drummond are among the most honourable names in Canadian history.

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

  • Léry, St. Ours, Longueuil, Lanaudière, Rouville, Boucherville, Salaberry, and Lotbinière, were among the names that told of the old régime, and gave a guaranty to the French Canadians that their race and institutions were at last protected in the legislative halls of their country.

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

  • Their gallant and successful acquittance of their task under Brock at Queenston Heights. and de Salaberry at Chateauguay, at Lundy's Lane and Crysler's Farm, are proud pages of Canadian history.

    Canada's Reserve Army 1943

  • The explosive plants at Nobel and de Salaberry Island, now in full production, are a spectacular size, and the shell-loading plant at St. Paul l'Ermite is also a tremendous operation.

    Munitions and More Munitions 1941

  • At Chateauguay, Colonel de Salaberry scored a brilliant military victory, and with that closing chapter our difficulties with the United States came to an end.

    Quebec 1940

  • Jean-Thomas Taschereau was then appointed commandant of the battalion of "La Nouvelle Beauce," and this traitor, at the head of his battalion, made up of habitants from Beauce, fought, under de Salaberry, the American invasion, at the immortal battle of Chateauguay, in 1812.

    One of Canada's Assets, the Habitant 1922

  • De Salaberry in the east at Chateauguay showed what could be done by French-Canadian valour and skill; in the west Sir Isaac Brock was everywhere, and his spirit pervaded everything and everybody.

    How and Why is Canada British? 1912

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