Louiseville
Louiseville | |
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819 | |
Highways A-40 | R-138 R-348 R-349 |
Website | www.ville .louiseville.qc.ca |
Louiseville (French pronunciation:
Louiseville is twinned with Soissons in France and Cerfontaine in Belgium.
History
The area was originally part of the la Seignorie Rivière-du-Loup. This seignory was formed in 1665 by Intendant Jean Talon and granted in 1672 to Charles Dugey Rozoy-de-Mannereuil, officer in the Carignan Regiment. The seignory was thereafter also known as Rivière-Mannereuil for some time.[1]
In 1714, a mission was formed by the
In 1816, its post office opened. In 1845, the Parish Municipality of Rivière-du-Loup-en-Haut was formed, and abolished two years later in 1847. It was reestablished in 1855 as Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup, named after the parish patron and the seignory. In 1878, the main settlement separated from the parish municipality and formed the Village Municipality of Rivière-du-Loup. Just one year later it was renamed to Louiseville in order to avoid confusion with another town called Rivière-du-Loup in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. The new name was a tribute to Princess Louise, viceregal consort of Canada, the third daughter of Queen Victoria, who had planned to visit the Mauricie that same year.[1]
On January 1, 1989, the parish and village municipalities merged again and became the Town of Louiseville.[1]
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Louiseville had a population of 7,340 living in 3,659 of its 3,857 total private dwellings, a change of 2.6% from its 2016 population of 7,152. With a land area of 62.59 km2 (24.17 sq mi), it had a population density of 117.3/km2 (303.7/sq mi) in 2021.[4]
Population trend:[5]
- Population in 2011: 7517 (2006 to 2011 population change: 1.1%)
- Population in 2006: 7433
- Population in 2001: 7622
- Population in 1996: 7911
- Population in 1991: 8000
Mother tongue:
- English as first language: 0.9%
- French as first language: 97.6%
- English and french as first language: 0.6%
- Other as first language: 0.9%
Notable residents
- Marcelle Ferron, GOQ (January 29, 1924 – November 19, 2001), a painter and stained glass artist[6]
- Pierre “Doc” Mailloux (January 14, 1949 – January 12, 2024), controversial psychiatristand radio show host
- George Henry Yale, 1st Mayor of Louiseville and military officer
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e "Louiseville (Ville)" (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
- ^ a b "Répertoire des municipalités: Geographic code 51015". www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.
- ^ a b "Louiseville (Code 2451015) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada.
- ^ "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Quebec". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
- 2011census
- ^ Farr, Dorothy; Luckyj, Natalie (1975). From Women's Eyes: Women Painters in Canada. Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre. pp. 60–61.
External links
- Media related to Louiseville at Wikimedia Commons