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Inverness
With the dawn of the 20th century, July 27, 1900, the municipality of the Inverness village was established. In nearly half a century, the locality developed where the Dublin road (Arthabaska back then) crosses the Gosford road. The junction of these two roads in 1848 supported Inverness as the pivotal of Megantic County. Longtime called "Inverness Center", this crossroad facilitates bonds with the surrounding villages. Since 1839, ten years after the arrival of the first Scots, the core of the village took form. Inverness Centre quickly becames a place of trade. One can find blacksmiths, carpenters, a general store, a bank, a hotel, a barber and pretty much all the services necessary to the implantation and the development of a community.
Township
In 1855 the municipality of Inverness is created. In the same year the accessibility of the Inverness Center justifies the governmental authorities naming it the county's chief town of the locality. Inverness Center then holds its name well. It is, in fact, all at once the geographical center of the county, the legal center where, in a short lapse of time, were established the Registration Office, Circuit court and the office of the first notary of the area; a religious center, which gathers several confessions and an economic center, thanks to cattle farming and the keeping, for more than a century, of the agricultural fair of Megantic County.
Reference
Inverness, Corporation touristique d'Inverness, 1987, p.20-21, 42-43.
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