1866 St-Roch Quebec - Fire in St-Roch and St-Sauveur suburbs of Quebec destroys over 2,000 homes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1752 Quebec Quebec - Pierre Reverd hanged at Quebec for counterfeiting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1698 Quebec Quebec - New France census shows the following tallies: 32,524 arpents under cultivation, with 994 sheep, 5,147 pigs, 684 horses, 10,209 cattle; 2,310 houses (211 in Trois-Rivières, 1,460 in Québec, 639 in Montréal); population includes 7,391 males, 6,424 females; settlements include Batiscan with 422 inhabitants, Beauport with 444, Château-Richer with 373, L'Ancienne-Lorette with 68, L'Ile d'Orléans with 1,472, Longueuil with 223, Montréal with 1,185, Québec with 1,988, Rivière-du-Loup with 22, Sorel with 59, Ste-Anne de Beaupré with 222. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------