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Drummondville Situated about 30 miles up the St. Francis River, Drummondville is 62 miles from Montreal to which it is closely linked by direct railway and highway routes. Founded in 1815, it had in the passage of a century as a county seat become a village of 2,800 people. In 1915 Southern Canada Power built the first of their two plants on the St. Francis and in the next ten years six textile plants were established. At the census of 2006 there was a population of 78,108 in Greater Drummondville. This included the city itself, St. Joseph, St. Simon, St. Jean Baptiste, Drummondville West, and additional hundreds in the rural parish of St. Phillippe. Plants produce textiles, rubber goods, pencils, paper boxes and electrical goods. To a greater degree, perhaps, than Three Rivers, Drummondville represents the expanding industrial might of Quebec. Other Towns Nicolet overlooking the delta of Nicolet River where it enters Lake St. Peter has been, more than Drummondville, the capital of the region south of the St. Lawrence. In 1921 it was larger than Drummondville but its population has remained stagnant at about 7,800 because there are no important industries. It is a county seat and a regional market for Nicolet and Yamaska counties, a prosperous dairy farming region. Louiseville, eighteen miles southwest of Three Rivers, with a population of about 7,400 has been the commercial centre of a flat hay growing region. The Three Rivers region is a striking example of the way in which the deep isolation of rural Quebec is being shattered by the mushroom growth of industrial towns. Home