Danville, Quebec

Coordinates: 45°47′N 72°01′W / 45.783°N 72.017°W / 45.783; -72.017
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Danville
819
Highways R-116
R-249
R-255
Websitewww.villededanville.com

Danville is a

2016 Canadian Census
, the population was 3,836.

History

Danville is on a stretch of the

loyalists from New England began arriving in 1783 and gave the town its name in memory of their hometown in Vermont of the same name: Danville, Vermont
. The founder of Danville was Simeon Flint, who was a resident from Danville, Vermont.

Until about 1971, the population of Danville was majority Anglophone. However, in the mid-1970s, many of the younger generation migrated to English Canada, Greater Montreal, or New England.

There are many heritage buildings, including three

Roman Catholic church. The Presbyterian church has been retrofitted into a four-star restaurant, and the Christian Advent church has been a private residence since 2007, following its closing in 2006. The Catholic church was erected in 2003, following the 2001 loss by fire of the earlier church erected in 1891. The current United church was completed in 1875 for a Congregational parish and is the oldest church in the town. One of the two Anglican Church of England
churches is located on a historic site on the countryside, near the border of the Shipton Township, Denison Mills.

Danville has two primary schools: a

Shipton
-Danville).

At the centre of the city is a square formed by the enlargement of an intersection. A memorial for soldiers killed in the

Korea War is in the centre of the square. Another memorial, to Private Timothy O'Hea, a recipient of the Victoria Cross
, is erected in front of the former City Hall.

Once a busy town inhabited by workers of the nearby Johns Manville asbestos mine, the town has quieted down considerably since the mine's closing. A magnesium smelter named Magnola, part of Noranda, using mine tailings from local asbestos mine, was set up in the town for a short time, but it ended up closing due to increasing foreign competition. The bucolic rolling fields in the area are good for farming, with many farms having been around for over a century. Both dairy and beef cattle are raised in the area although other livestock are also common.

Each year, the town has an art symposium in which artists from the area gather in the town's many churches and display their artwork.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Danville had a population of 3,888 living in 1,778 of its 1,878 total private dwellings, a change of 1.6% from its 2016 population of 3,826. With a land area of 151.73 km2 (58.58 sq mi), it had a population density of 25.6/km2 (66.4/sq mi) in 2021.[4]

Notable people

References

  1. ^ "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 16945". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
  2. ^ a b "Répertoire des municipalités: Geographic code 40047". www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.
  3. ^ a b "Census Profile, 2016 Census - Danville, Ville [Census subdivision], Quebec and Saint-Raymond [Population centre], Quebec". 8 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Quebec". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved August 29, 2022.

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