Ristigouche-Sud-Est Ristigouche-Partie-Sud-Est | |
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Coordinates: 48°03′N66°52′W / 48.050°N 66.867°W [1] | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Gaspésie– Îles-de-la-Madeleine |
RCM | Avignon |
Constituted | June 30, 1906 |
Government | |
• Mayor | David Ferguson |
• Federal riding | Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia |
• Prov. riding | Bonaventure |
Area | |
• Total | 53.81 km2 (20.78 sq mi) |
• Land | 51.76 km2 (19.98 sq mi) |
Population (2021) [3] | |
• Total | 170 |
• Density | 3.3/km2 (9/sq mi) |
• Pop (2016-21) | 0.6% |
• Dwellings | 95 |
Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
Postal code(s) | |
Area code(s) | 418 and 581 |
Highways | R-132 |
Website | ristigouche |
Ristigouche-Sud-Est (or Ristigouche-Partie-Sud-Est until February 2024) is a municipality in Quebec, Canada, near the head of the Baie de Chaleur. It is a rural municipality without population centres, situated along the CN Railway line which hosts the VIA Rail Ocean (train) route; the nearest VIA station is Matapedia.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the voyage between Quebec and Saint John passed the Temiscouata Portage and via the Saint John River valley. After the War of 1812, it was decided to develop a new maritime route which was to be located away from the border. The Matapedia River valley was selected, and the route would be named Kempt Road, for General Sir James Kempt, then Governor-General of British North America. Construction started in 1830, under the supervision of William MacDonald, Frederic Fournier and Major Wolfe, but the route remained difficult and government decided to abandon it in 1857. A new path between Causapscal and the Restigouche was adopted in 1862, and in 1868 the Intercolonial Railway project that was to transform the British North American Colonies into Canada selected the Matapedia River road to be its route. On 1 July 1876, the Sainte-Flavie-Campbellton section was opened.
The township municipality was formed in 1907 when it separated from the Township Municipality of Ristigouche (now Saint-André-de-Restigouche). [1]
On 17 April 1983, the 480 ha (4.8 km2) Ristigouche Ecological Reserve was formed by the Quebec government.
In March 2013, the municipality was served notice of pursuit by the resource extractor Gastem for $1.5 million because the municipality sought to protect its drinking water source from fracking, by imposing an exclusion zone of 2 km around water wells. Gastem later ceded its exploration permits to Pétrolia . [4] now a subsidiary of the French multinational oil producer Maurel et Prom , [5] The municipality had amassed $146,000 in its charitable legal defence fund as of March 2015. Gastem offered an amicable resolution at that time for that cost. [4] Ultimately, a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec ruled in the township's favour in 2017. [6]
In February 2024, the township changed status to became a regular municipality and took the current name of Ristigouche-Sud-Est. [7]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Ristigouche-Sud-Est had a population of 170 living in 81 of its 95 total private dwellings, a change of -0.6% from its 2016 population of 171. With a land area of 51.76 km2 (19.98 sq mi), it had a population density of 3.3/km2 (8.5/sq mi) in 2021. [3]
2021 | 2016 | 2011 | |
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Population | 170 (-0.6% from 2016) | 171 (2.4% from 2011) | 167 (-3.5% from 2006) |
Land area | 51.76 km2 (19.98 sq mi) | 51.70 km2 (19.96 sq mi) | 51.27 km2 (19.80 sq mi) |
Population density | 3.3/km2 (8.5/sq mi) | 3.3/km2 (8.5/sq mi) | 3.3/km2 (8.5/sq mi) |
Median age | 50.8 (M: 51.6, F: 50.0) | 56.5 (M: 57.2, F: 56.2) | 52.2 (M: 52.0, F: 52.8) |
Private dwellings | 95 (total) 81 (occupied) | 91 (total) | 91 (total) |
Median household income | $.N/A | $.N/A | $.N/A |
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Source: Statistics Canada [13] |
Canada Census Mother Tongue - Ristigouche-Sud-Est, Quebec [13] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Census | Total | French | English | French & English | Other | |||||||||||||
Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | |||||
2021 | 170 | 130 | 0.0% | 76.5% | 35 | 12.5% | 20.6% | 5 | n/a% | 2.9% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.0% | |||||
2016 | 175 | 130 | 4.0% | 74.3% | 40 | 14.3% | 22.9% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 5 | n/a% | 2.9% | |||||
2011 | 165 | 125 | 7.4% | 75.8% | 35 | 16.7% | 21.2% | 5 | 50.0% | 3.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||||
2006 | 170 | 135 | 8.0% | 79.4% | 30 | 14.3% | 17.6% | 10 | n/a% | 5.9% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||||
2001 | 165 | 125 | 47.1% | 75.8% | 35 | 30.0% | 21.2% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||||
1996 | 140 | 85 | n/a | 60.7% | 50 | n/a | 35.7% | 0 | n/a | 0.0% | 0 | n/a | 0.0% |
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