This is one of the oldest municipalities in the region after Lambton, its neighbour to the north. People from the Beauce and from seigneuries founded it in 1854 in the name of Pope Romain, who was Pope in 897 for just three months. Until the 1960s, this parish took the name of Saint-Romain-de-Winslow, which evokes images of the second wave of colonists, Scots from Buckinghamshire who arrived in the township. Declared in 1879, it recalls Joshua Winslow, paymaster for the Canadian troops in 1790 and Receiver General of Lower Canada in 1791. One of the notable attractions here is the Centre d’Interprétation des Tracteurs Antiques – the only such antique tractor exhibit of its kind.
