Frampton is a municipality in La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches administrative region of Quebec.

Frampton
Municipality
The village.
Coat of arms
Location within La Nouvelle-Beauce RCM.
Frampton Location in southern Quebec.
Coordinates: 46°28′N 70°48′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
RCM	La Nouvelle-Beauce
Constituted	July 1, 1855
Government [2]
• Mayor	Jacques Soucy
• Federal riding	Beauce
• Prov. riding	Beauce-Nord
Area [2][3]
• Total	151.50 km2 (58.49 sq mi)
• Land	151.43 km2 (58.47 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[3]
• Total	1,393
• Density	9.2/km2 (24/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	6.0%
• Dwellings	671
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0R 1M0
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Highways	Route 112 Route 216 Route 275
Website	www.nouvelle beauce.com/frampton

After the War of 1812, in the time of land grants were given to soldiers in the region as reward for their service to the British Crown. Brothers William and Gilbert Henderson, originally of the Shetland Islands, and Pierre-Edouard Desbarats, partnered in developing Frampton Township along with the surrounding towns of Saint-Malachie, where both Henderson brothers are buried, and Standon Township. The towns grew with the influx of Irish immigrants to Canada after the war. It is said that the well-read William Henderson gave the town the name Frampton in honour of Mary Frampton, an author in England from that period.

In 1844, the 1,662 inhabitants of Frampton were almost exclusively Irish and English speaking. However, 100 years later, the Irish community had practically vanished because of recessions; chain migration to New England, Western Canada, and Western United States; and assimilation to the French-Canadian culture.[4]

External links

• Frampton's webpage on the Nouvelle-Beauce website (in French)
• History and Genealogy of the Frampton Irish

References