Saint-Rémi, Quebec
Saint-Rémi | |
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 Flag  Coat of arms | |
| Motto: Droiture (Righteousness) | |
 Location within Les Jardins-de-Napierville RCM | |
  Saint-Rémi Location in southern Quebec | |
| Coordinates: 45°16′N 73°37′W / 45.267°N 73.617°W[1] | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Montérégie |
| RCM | Les Jardins-de-Napierville |
| Founded | 1815 |
| Constituted | 20 September 1975 |
| Founded by | Alexis Perras |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Sylvie Gagnon-Breton |
| • Federal riding | Châteauguay—Lacolle |
| • Prov. riding | Sanguinet |
| Area | |
| • Total | 78.18 km2 (30.19 sq mi) |
| • Land | 78.18 km2 (30.19 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 60 m (200 ft) |
| Population (2021)[citation needed] | |
| • Total | 8,957 |
| • Density | 114.6/km2 (297/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2016-2021 |  11.1% |
| • Dwellings | 3,796 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area Code | 450 and 579 |
| Highways |  R-209  R-221 |
| NTS Map | 031H05 |
| Québec Geocode | 68055 |
| CLSC Territory | Les Jardins-de-Napierville (16042) |
| Website | www |
Saint-Rémi is a city in the province of Quebec, Canada. Located on the south-shore of the Saint Lawrence River and the Island of Montreal. Saint-Rémi is part of Les Jardins-de-Napierville Regional County Municipality, in the Montérégie administrative region. The population as of the 2021 Canada Census was 8 957.
Name[edit]
The territory was known as Saint-Rémi early into the European settling. It is thought that the name was chosen to honor Daniel de Rémy de Courcelle, Governor General of New France from 1665 to 1672, but this fact is still in doubt today.
History[edit]
At the start of the 19th century, Lord Christophe Sanguinet experienced legal disputes with the British colonial administration and after two trials in 1805 and 1807, the territory of the Lordship of La Salle was reduced by 20% of its area, the most developed by being removed. He and his successors, his son Ambroise Sanguinet and his grandsons Christophe-Ambroise and Charles-Amable Sanguinet tried to recover this part of the territory while interceding so that the hundreds of threatened censitaires were not expelled from their lands. Christophe-Ambroise and Charles-Amable Sanguinet took up the cause of the Lower Canada Rebellion and were hanged in 1839.
Saint-Rémi is located in the former seigneury of La Salle and on the former township of Huntigndon. The origin of the name Saint-Rémi comes from Saint Remigius, bishop of Reims, who baptized the king of the Salian Franks Clovis I in 496. It was in 1815 that the first pioneer, Alexis Perras, arrived. On 1 July 1825, the parish municipality of Saint-Rémi was officially created.
On 23 October 1859, the village of Saint-Rémi was constituted by detachment from the parish of the same name.
In 1975, the municipal councils of the city of Saint-Rémi and the parish of the same name adopted a by-law authorizing the granting of letters patent to merge the two municipalities into one City of Saint-Rémi.
Demographics[edit]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Rémi had a population of 8,957 living in 3,682 of its 3,796 total private dwellings, a change of 11.1% from its 2016 population of 8,061. With a land area of 78.18 km2 (30.19 sq mi), it had a population density of 114.6/km2 (296.7/sq mi) in 2021.[3]
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1991 | 5,768 | — |
| 1996 | 5,707 | −1.1% |
| 2001 | 5,736 | +0.5% |
| 2006 | 6,136 | +7.0% |
| 2011 | 7,265 | +18.4% |
| 2016 | 8,061 | +11.0% |
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| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | |||||
2021
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8,810
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8,145 | 5.1%
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92.5% | 190 | 22.6%
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2.2% | 125 | 212.5%
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1.4% | 315 | 103.2%
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3.6% | |||||
2016
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8,061
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7,750 | 12.9%
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96.1% | 155 | 40.9%
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1.9% | 40 |  0.00%
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0.5% | 155 |  11.4%
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1.9% | |||||
2011
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7,185
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6,860 | 19.7%
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95.5% | 110 | 46.7%
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1.5% | 40 | 300.0%
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0.6% | 175 | 16.7%
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2.4% | |||||
2006
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5,965
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5,730 | 5.5%
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96.1% | 75 | 7.1%
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1.3% | 10 | 66.7%
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0.2% | 150 | 150.0%
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2.5% | |||||
2001
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5,590
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5,430 | 0.7%
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97.1% | 70 | 16.7%
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1.3% | 30 | 20.0%
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0.5% | 60 | 50.0%
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1.1% | |||||
1996
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5,595
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5,390 | n/a | 96.3% | 60 | n/a | 1.1% | 25 | n/a | 0.5% | 120 | n/a | 2.1% | |||||
See also[edit]
- Les Jardins-de-Napierville Regional County Municipality
- Saint-Pierre River (Saint-Régis River tributary)
- List of cities in Quebec
References[edit]
- ^ "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 57569". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
- ^ a b Répertoire des municipalités du Québec: St-Rémi
- ^ "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Quebec". Statistics Canada. 9 February 2022. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
- ^ a b Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census
External links[edit]
Media related to Saint-Rémi, Quebec at Wikimedia Commons- Saint-Rémi official website
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