SAINTE-THRSE

city, Laurentides region, southern Quebec province, Canada. It lies along the Montreal-Laurentian Autoroute. The parish of Sainte-Thrse, dating from 1789, and the community were named for Thrse de Blainville, daughter of the seignior who made the first land grants for it about 1730. In the workshop attached to the Sainte-Thrse Seminary (1825), Joseph Casavant made his first pipe organs and founded a piano industry (183448). The city's modern economy depends chiefly on the manufacture of auto parts, farm machinery, furniture, plastics, and plywood. Inc. village, 1849; town, 1916; city, 1959. Pop. (1991) 24,158.