Canéjan

Canéjan
Commune
The church in Canéjan
Coat of arms
Location of Canéjan
Canéjan Canéjan
Coordinates: 44°45′50″N 0°39′13″W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Gironde
Arrondissement	Bordeaux
Canton	Pessac-1
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Bernard Garrigou
Area 1	12 km2 (5 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	5,916
• Density	490/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	33090 /33610
Elevation	23–56 m (75–184 ft) (avg. 40 m or 130 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Canéjan is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

Geography

Canéjan is located 11.4 km southwest of Bordeaux. It is on the A63 autoroute, as well as the Route nationale 10.

The commune borders Cestas (southwest), Gradignan (northeast), Pessac (north), and Léognan (southeast).

History

Gallo-Romans' relics has been discovered which attest human presence around the end of the 1st century and the beginning of the 2nd century.

On August 20, 1949, 29 people from Canéjan died at Le Puch (Cestas), while fighting a fire which killed 82 and burned 28,000 hectares (69,200 acres). In September 1949, General Charles de Gaulle came in Canéjan to visit firefighters' graves.

Name

There used to be two different ways of spelling the name of the city, Canéjean or Canéjan, in July 1987 it has been decided to keep only one: Canéjan.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 312 —     1800 275 −11.9% 1806 274 −0.4% 1821 355 +29.6% 1831 324 −8.7% 1836 334 +3.1% 1841 417 +24.9% 1846 403 −3.4% 1851 362 −10.2% 1856 416 +14.9% 1861 416 +0.0% 1866 477 +14.7% 1872 413 −13.4% 1876 475 +15.0% 1881 465 −2.1% 1886 581 +24.9% 1891 506 −12.9%

Year Pop. ±% 1896 484 −4.3% 1901 511 +5.6% 1906 478 −6.5% 1911 470 −1.7% 1921 534 +13.6% 1926 449 −15.9% 1931 453 +0.9% 1936 408 −9.9% 1946 382 −6.4% 1954 462 +20.9% 1962 510 +10.4% 1968 594 +16.5% 1975 3,257 +448.3% 1982 3,380 +3.8% 1990 4,976 +47.2% 1999 5,114 +2.8% 2008 5,009 −2.1%

See also

• Communes of the Gironde department