Nédélec
Nédélec | |
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![]() Location within Témiscamingue RCM. | |
Coordinates: 47°41′N 79°26′W / 47.683°N 79.433°W[1] | |
Country | ![]() |
Province | ![]() |
Region | Abitibi-Témiscamingue |
RCM | Témiscamingue |
Settled | 1895 |
Constituted | February 1, 1909 |
Named for | Jean-Marie Nédélec[1] |
Government | |
• Mayor | Carmen Rivard |
• Federal riding | Abitibi—Témiscamingue |
• Prov. riding | Rouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue |
Area | |
• Total | 372.70 km2 (143.90 sq mi) |
• Land | 374.10 km2 (144.44 sq mi) |
There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources | |
Population (2016)[3] | |
• Total | 356 |
• Density | 1.0/km2 (3/sq mi) |
• Pop 2011-2016 | ![]() |
• Dwellings | 181 |
Time zone | UTC−05:00 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−04:00 (EDT) |
Postal code(s) | |
Area code | 819 |
Highways | ![]() |
Website | municipalite |
Nédélec is a township municipality in western Quebec, Canada, in the Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality.
Name
The name of the municipality recalls the name of Jean-Marie Nédélec who was an oblate and a missionary with the Algonquins in the region. His last name is from the Breton word Nedeleg which means Christmas.
History
By 1895, a general store was supplying the many logging camps of the area. The first permanent settlers arrived in 1909, the same year the township and township municipality were formed. They were both named after Jean-Marie Nédélec (1834-1896) who was a missionary among the Algonquin First Nations of Lake Timiskaming and Lake Abitibi from 1867 to 1869 and from 1892 to 1896.[1]
On October 7, 1995, the unorganized territory of Roulier, named after Ulric Roulier who was priest at Nédélec in the mid-1930s, was added to the municipality.[1]
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Nédélec had a population of 340 living in 152 of its 168 total private dwellings, a change of -4.5% from its 2016 population of 356. With a land area of 371.49 km2 (143.43 sq mi), it had a population density of 0.9/km2 (2.4/sq mi) in 2021.[4]
Population trend:[5]
- Population in 2016: 356 (2011 to 2016 population change: -11.7%)
- Population in 2011: 403 (2006 to 2011 population change: -3.1%)
- Population in 2006: 416
- Population in 2001: 429
- Population in 1996: 474
- Population in 1991: 524
Mother tongue:[6]
- English as first language: 4.2%
- French as first language: 93.0%
- English and French as first language: 0%
- Other as first language: 1.4%
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "Nédélec (Municipalité de canton)" (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec. Retrieved 2011-01-04.
- ^ a b "Nédélec". Répertoire des municipalités (in French). Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire. Archived from the original on 2012-06-01. Retrieved 2011-01-04.
- ^ a b "Nédélec census profile". 2016 Census data. Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
- ^ "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Quebec". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
- ^ Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016 census
- ^ "Nédélec community profile". 2016 Census data. Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2022-07-13.