This was posted in 2007 by Fr John. It was quite common in colonial Quebec for a town to take the name of the parish church that had been established in that neighborhood as the population in the original settlements at Montréal, Québec and Trois-Rivières started expanding into the nearby countryside. In turn, as the population of these towns began to grow, new parishes were established within the town limits, and the name of the first parish could no longer be identified with the name of the town. The parish in the township now known as Batiscan is St-François-Xavier, where the first two baptisms were recorded in 1679, the first marriage and the first three burials in 1681. The first seven baptisms and the first two marriages at Ste-Genevieve de Batiscan were recorded in 1727. A website that has proved useful for identifying the county and township where Quebec parishes are located, and the dates of foundation of the parishes is Endroits au Quebec [Quebec Places] http://www.francogene.com/quebec/tout2.php I have this in my files http://www.genealogie.umontreal.ca/fr/carteQuebec.asp?CODE=401 <http://www.genealogie.umontreal.ca/fr/carteQuebec.asp?CODE=401> map of Quebec parishes before 1850. Just click on the parish you want and then click on "Statistiques" It will give you the BMS for different years for that parish Hope it will help