Saint-Michel-des-Saints | |
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Municipality | |
![]() Location within Matawinie RCM. | |
Coordinates: 46°41′N73°55′W / 46.683°N 73.917°W Coordinates: 46°41′N73°55′W / 46.683°N 73.917°W [1] | |
Country | ![]() |
Province | ![]() |
Region | Lanaudière |
RCM | Matawinie |
Settled | 1863 |
Constituted | March 3, 1979 |
Government [2] | |
• Mayor | Jean-Pierre Bellerose |
• Federal riding | Joliette |
• Prov. riding | Berthier |
Area [2] [3] | |
• Total | 568.00 km2 (219.31 sq mi) |
• Land | 501.28 km2 (193.55 sq mi) |
Population (2011) [4] | |
• Total | 2,436 |
• Density | 4.9/km2 (13/sq mi) |
• Pop 2006-2011 | ![]() |
• Dwellings | 1,990 |
Time zone | EST (UTC−5) |
• Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) |
Postal code(s) | J0K 3B0 |
Area code(s) | 450 and 579 |
Highways | ![]() |
Website | www.saintmichel dessaints.com |
Saint-Michel-des-Saints is a municipality in the Matawinie Regional County Municipality of Quebec, Canada. During its history, agriculture, forestry, recreation and tourism were the main purposes of the region.
Matawinie is a regional county municipality in the region of Lanaudière in southwestern Quebec, Canada. Its seat is Rawdon. The population according to the Canada 2011 Census is 49,516.
Quebec is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario and the bodies of water James Bay and Hudson Bay; to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay; to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador; and to the south by the province of New Brunswick and the U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. It also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is historically and politically considered to be part of Central Canada.
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In 1863, Thomas-Léandre Brassard settled near the falls of Pine Lake (Lac des Pins) where he built a mill and a manor. Three years later, there were 136 inhabitants. In 1870, the post office opened. By 1883, the Parish of Saint-Michel-des-Saints was officially formed and followed two years later in 1885 by the formation of the parish municipality. The name Saint-Michel-des-Saints, chosen by Ignace Bourget at the suggestion of Father Brassard, honours Michael de Sanctis who lived from 1591 to 1625. [1]
Ignace Bourget was a French-Canadian Roman Catholic priest who held the title of Bishop of Montreal from 1840 to 1876. Born in Lévis, Quebec in 1799, Bourget entered the clergy at an early age, undertook several courses of religious study, and in 1837 was named co-adjutor bishop of the newly created bishopric of Montreal. Following the death of Jean-Jacques Lartigue in 1840, Bourget became Bishop of Montreal.
Saint Michael de Sanctis, sometimes called Michael of the Saints, was a Discalced Trinitarian born in Vic, a city of Catalonia, Spain.
In 1929, the dam on the Matawin River was constructed that would result in the formation of the Taureau Reservoir. This reservoir drowned the neighbouring village of Saint-Ignace-du-Lac (founded in 1877) and consequently this municipality was annexed by Saint-Michel-des-Saints in 1931, thereby increasing its territory by about 15 square kilometres (5.8 sq mi). [1]
In 1979, the Parish Municipality of Saint-Michel-des-Saints and the United Township Municipality of Masson-et-Laviolette (founded in 1914) were merged to form the new Municipality of Saint-Michel-des-Saints. [1]
Saint-Michel-des-Saints is the largest and northern-most municipality in the Lanaudière region (not considering the unorganized territories). The village itself is located at the northern end of Quebec Route 131 along the Matawin River, near the south-western corner of Taureau Reservoir. [1] [2]
Lanaudière is one of the seventeen administrative regions of Quebec, Canada, situated immediately to the northeast of Montreal. It has a total population of 429,053 inhabitants.
Route 131 is a Quebec highway running from Lavaltrie to Saint-Michel-des-Saints in Lanaudière. This route, combined with Autoroute 31, provides the key route to Joliette, and then continues northward through Saint-Félix-de-Valois, Saint-Jean-de-Matha and Saint-Zénon for a distance of almost 140 km.
The Matawin River is a 161 km river, flowing from west to east through the administrative regions of Lanaudière and Mauricie, in Quebec, Canada.
The larger lakes in the municipality include Durand, Beauséjour, Hazen, and Kaiagamac. These and the many other ones attract many summer cottage vacationers. The area's forests are popular for hunting and trapping. [1]
In the 2011 Census, Statistics Canada originally reported that Saint-Michel-des-Saints had a population of 2,201 living in 979 of its 1,774 total dwellings, an 18.9% change from its 2006 population of 2,713. [5] Statistics Canada subsequently amended the 2011 census results to a population of 2,436 living in 1,084 of its 1,990 total dwellings, a -10.2% change from 2006. [4] With a land area of 501.28 km2 (193.55 sq mi), it had a population density of 4.8596/km2 (12.5862/sq mi) in 2011. [4] [5]
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Commission scolaire des Samares operates francophone public schools:
The Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board operates anglophone public schools serving the community at the secondary level, including:
Saint-Michel-des-Saints is twinned with the community of Saint-Varent in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France.
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