l'anse-saint-jean, quebec

L'Anse-Saint-Jean is a small town, population 1269 (2001) in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. L'Anse-Saint-Jean was founded in 1838 by the Society of Twenty-one, a group of lumber prospectors and investors which was responsible for opening up the Saguenay region to colonization. It achieved a certain notoriety when its citizens held a referendum on January 21, 1997, to turn the village into the Kingdom of L'Anse-Saint-Jean, the continent's first "municipal monarchy." The monarchists won 73.9% of the vote, with Denys Tremblay becoming King Denys I. The king was crowned on June 24, Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day, in the Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, and announced plans to build a "vegetable oratory," Saint-Jean-du-Millénaire (Saint John of the Millennium). This micronational project was cheerfully conceded to be a way of boosting tourism in the region, which had been hit by the floods on the Saguenay River in 1996.

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Monarchy of L'Anse-Saint-Jean

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