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Laforce is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality. The place saw its first settlers in 1937, and was originally called Devlin, after the geographic township of Devlin, in turn named in honour of Charles Ramsay Devlin. In 1938, the Parish of Saint-Charles-Borromée-de-Devlin was founded. …
Laforce is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality. The place saw its first settlers in 1937, and was originally called Devlin, after the geographic township of Devlin, in turn named in honour of Charles Ramsay Devlin. In 1938, the Parish of Saint-Charles-Borromée-de-Devlin was founded. In June of that same year, the place received the name Laforce, named after Ernest Laforce, deputy minister of Colonization of Quebec at that time. In 1940, the Laforce Post Office opened.
  • Country: Canada
  • Province: Quebec
  • Region: Abitibi-Témiscamingue
  • RCM: Témiscamingue
  • Settled: 1937
  • Constituted: January 1, 1979
  • Postal code(s): J0Z 2J0

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