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Auclair, Quebec
Municipality in Quebec, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Auclair (French pronunciation: [oklɛʁ]) is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the Témiscouata Regional County Municipality. The municipality had a population of 447 as of the Canada 2021 Census.
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History
On 28 April 1917, the canton of Auclair was proclaimed.
In 1931, the Saint-Émile mission was founded. Parish registers were opened on 13 January 1932. That same year, the first chapel was built. On 6 June 1941, the parish of Saint-Émile d'Auclair was canonically erected. The first parish priest was Camille Lachance in 1944. In 1954, the municipality of Auclair was officially founded.[4]
In 2014, Auclair is one of the host communities for the Fifth Acadian World Congress.[5]
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Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Auclair had a population of 447 living in 212 of its 264 total private dwellings, a change of -0.2% from its 2016 population of 448. With a land area of 105.78 km2 (40.84 sq mi), it had a population density of 4.2/km2 (10.9/sq mi) in 2021.[3]
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