The name Verdun comes from "SAVERDUN", a town in south-west France where Zacharie Dupuis originated, to whom was given a piece of land which included actual Verdun.
Nun's Island was originally named ÃŽle Saint Paul: it was inhabited and farmed by French colonists as early as 1664.
The village of Rivi챔re Saint Pierre was founded in 1875 and the name changed to Village of Verdun the following year.
The Prince of Wales who later became King Edward VIII, visited Verdun in 1919.
In the 1920s, Verdun was a city which had the quickest growth in Canada; it more than doubled its population to reach 60,000 in 1931, mainly due to British immigrants. Verdun ws then the third largest city in Québec, the 12th in Canada.
During the first world war (1914-111918) and again during the second world war (1939-1945), Verdun supplied the largest amount of volonteers of all the towns of equal size.
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