Plessisville, Quebec
Plessisville | |
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| Motto: "Meliora paramus" (We are preparing better things) | |
_Quebec_location_diagram.png) Location within L'Érable RCM. | |
| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  Quebec |
| Region | Centre-du-Québec |
| RCM | L'Érable |
| Constituted | April 27, 1855 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Jean-Noël Bergeron (Since November 3rd, 2013) |
| • Federal riding | Mégantic—L'Érable |
| • Prov. riding | Arthabaska |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4.40 km2 (1.70 sq mi) |
| • Land | 4.33 km2 (1.67 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[2] | |
| • Total | 6,688 |
| • Density | 1,546.0/km2 (4,004/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2006-2011 |  0.2% |
| • Dwellings | 3,115 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area code | 819 |
| Highways |  R-116  R-165 |
| Website | www |
Plessisville, Quebec is a county seat of L'Érable Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada. Routes 116 and 165 go through it. The city is 185 km from Montreal and 95 km from Quebec City. Plessisville's claim to fame is as the "World's Maple Capital"; the city has hosted an annual Maple festival since 1958, and the Institut québécois de l'érable (Quebec Maple Institute) is headquartered there. The production of maple syrup and maple products is a major industry in the entire area, even giving the regional county municipality its name (érable is French for "maple").
The first person to permanently settle in the area was Jean-Baptiste Lafond, in 1835. First incorporated as the village of Somerset, the settlement was officially incorporated as the village of Plessisville in 1855 in honour of Monseigneur Octave Plessis, bishop of Quebec at the time.
Notable people
- Denis Blondin, anthropologist
- Pierre Bourque, saxophonist
- Pierre-Andre Fournier, Roman Catholic Archbishop
- Raymond Garneau, politician
- Louis-Édouard Roberge, politician
- François-Théodore Savoie, politician
- Pierre Vachon, president of IB Quebec
Sources
- Template:En icon Official City website
- Template:En icon Quebec Maple Institute
- Template:Fr icon Maple Festival
References
- ^ a b "Répertoire des municipalités: Geographic code 32040". www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.
- ^ a b "Plessisville, Quebec (Code 2432040) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada.
- ^ "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 49916". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
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