Saint-Charles-Borromée, Quebec is a municipality in southwest-central Quebec, Canada on the Rivière l'Assomption. It is in Joliette Regional County Municipality. It is home to the heritage house Maison Antoine-Lacombe, which holds many expositions through the year. It is also home to the Centre Saint-Jean-Bosco which annually hosts the Mémoires et Racines festival for folk music from various countries and from Quebec. The town takes its name from its original Roman Catholic parish, Saint-Charles-Borromée . The parish's name, in turn, derives from the French name of an Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Charles Borromeo , the archbishop of Milan, who f...
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