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families who had lain claims to the lands. The Métis gave the rights to work the land over to the
English, but the English community was short-lived. The Roman Catholic Church purchased the land to establish the Parish of St.-Hyacinthe of La Salle. In 1891, the municipal council passed Bylaw 144,
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