Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval
City in Quebec, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
City in Quebec, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval is a city in La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. Its urban area is located in the hollow of the Montmorency River valley, northeast of Quebec City.
Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval | |
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Motto: Dieu ayde | |
Coordinates: 47°00′N 71°12′W[1] | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Capitale-Nationale |
RCM | La Jacques-Cartier |
Settled | c. 1830 |
Constituted | February 11, 1875 |
Government | |
• Mayor | France Fortier |
• Federal riding | Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier |
• Prov. riding | Montmorency |
Area | |
• Total | 110.40 km2 (42.63 sq mi) |
• Land | 108.42 km2 (41.86 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[3] | |
• Total | 8,468 |
• Density | 78.1/km2 (202/sq mi) |
• Pop 2016-2021 | 15.1% |
• Dwellings | 3,343 |
Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
Postal code(s) | |
Area code(s) | 418 and 581 |
Highways | No major routes |
Website | sbdl |
The city is named in honor of Brigid of Kildare as a recall the irish origin of the first settlers. The name Laval comes from the situation of Sainte-Brigitte in the seigneury of Beaupré, whose first owner was François de Laval, bishop of Quebec.
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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1991 | 2,833 | — |
1996 | 3,214 | +13.4% |
2001 | 3,383 | +5.3% |
2006 | 3,790 | +12.0% |
2011 | 5,696 | +50.3% |
2016 | 7,348 | +29.0% |
2021 | 8,468 | +15.2% |
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval had a population of 8,468 living in 3,203 of its 3,343 total private dwellings, a change of 15.2% from its 2016 population of 7,348. With a land area of 108.42 km2 (41.86 sq mi), it had a population density of 78.1/km2 (202.3/sq mi) in 2021.[5]
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Year | Liberal | Conservative | Bloc Québécois | New Democratic | Green | ||||||
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2021 | 14% | 563 | 49% | 1,924 | 22% | 851 | 7% | 260 | 0% | 0 | |
2019 | 18% | 670 | 41% | 1,526 | 26% | 993 | 7% | 279 | 4% | 152 | |
Year | CAQ | Liberal | QC solidaire | Parti Québécois | |||||
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2018 | 55% | 2,088 | 13% | 479 | 13% | 506 | 10% | 374 | |
2014 | 41% | 1,506 | 35% | 1,287 | 5% | 193 | 13% | 473 | |
Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval forms part of the federal electoral district of Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier and has been represented by Joël Godin of the Conservative Party since 2015. Provincially, Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval is part of the Montmorency electoral district and is represented by Jean-François Simard of the Coalition Avenir Québec since 2018.
2022 administration:
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