Cloridorme

Cloridorme (French pronunciation: [klɔʁidɔʁm]) is a township municipality in the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec, Canada. Cloridorme's economy is centred on fishing. Its population, according to the 2021 Canadian Census was 607. The township stretches for 16 kilometres (10 mi) along the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and includes Cloridorme Bay where the Little and Great Cloridorme Rivers have their mouths.

Cloridorme
Township municipality
Saint Cecile Church in Cloridorme
Coat of arms
Location within La Côte-de-Gaspé RCM
Cloridorme Location in eastern Quebec
Coordinates: 49°11′N 64°50′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Gaspésie– Îles-de-la-Madeleine
RCM	La Côte-de-Gaspé
Settled	1838
Constituted	January 1, 1885
Government [2]
• Mayor	Marcel Mainville
• Federal riding	Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Listuguj
• Prov. riding	Gaspé
Area [2][3]
• Total	161.42 km2 (62.32 sq mi)
• Land	158.74 km2 (61.29 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[3]
• Total	607
• Density	3.8/km2 (10/sq mi)
• Pop (2016-21)	9.5%
• Dwellings	382
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0E 1G0
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Highways	R-132
Website	canton-de-cloridorme.com

In addition to the village of Cloridorme itself, the township's territory also includes the communities of Cloridorme-Ouest, Petite-Anse, Pointe-à-la-Frégate, and Saint-Yvon.

Etymology

Archival documents indicate that "Chlorydormes" was a place in the Jersey Islands, near the village of St John. Emigrants from Jersey have contributed to the primary population of the Gaspé area, including Cloridorme that was settled by a community of fishermen from Jersey. In particular, a certain Lewis Gibaut, friend of Georges Godfray of Grand-Étang (a neighboring village of Cloridorme) and who worked for William Hyman and Sons, returned to die in Chlorydormes, St-John, Jersey.^[4][5]

The name has been in use since at least the middle of the 18th-century, as indicated by its use on a map of 1755, and by the 19th-century, the name Les Chlorydormes was used for 2 bays on the coast (now Cloridorme Bay^[6] and Petit-Cloridorme Cove^[7] where the Grand-Cloridorme and Petit-Cloridorme Rivers empty into the St. Lawrence respectively). The spelling modification and change from plural to singular occurred at the end of the 19th century.^[1]

History

Village of Cloridorme in 1940

The area was first settled in 1838 by people from Montmagny. In 1853, a mission was set up, called Sainte-Cécile-de-Cloridorme. In 1871, the geographic township was formed, the following year the post office opened (called Chlorydormes, and changed to Cloridorme in 1921), and the year after that, the mission became a parish. In 1885, the Township Municipality of Cloridorme was established.^[1]

In 1957, the township lost a portion of its territory when Petite-Vallée became a separate incorporated municipality.^[8]

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Cloridorme had a population of 607 living in 315 of its 382 total private dwellings, a change of -9.5% from its 2016 population of 671. With a land area of 158.74 km² (61.29 sq mi), it had a population density of 3.8/km² (9.9/sq mi) in 2021.^[3]

Canada census – Cloridorme community profile

	2021	2016	2011
Population	607 (-9.5% from 2016)	671 (-9.7% from 2011)	743 (-2.7% from 2006)
Land area	158.74 km2 (61.29 sq mi)	159.62 km2 (61.63 sq mi)	160.22 km2 (61.86 sq mi)
Population density	3.8/km2 (9.8/sq mi)	4.2/km2 (11/sq mi)	4.6/km2 (12/sq mi)
Median age	61.6 (M: 61.6, F: 62.4)	58.5 (M: 58.3, F: 58.8)	55.0 (M: 53.9, F: 55.5)
Private dwellings	382 (total)  315 (occupied)	397 (total)  336 (occupied)	412 (total)
Median household income	$55,200	$44,800	$36,768

References: 2021^[9] 2016^[10] 2011^[11]

Historical Census Data - Cloridorme, Quebec

Year Pop. ±% 1891 647 —     1901 785 +21.3% 1911 999 +27.3% 1921 953 −4.6% 1931 834 −12.5% 1941 1,437 +72.3% 1951 1,644 +14.4%	Year Pop. ±% 1956 1,722 +4.7% 1961 1,275 −26.0% 1966 1,600 +25.5% 1971 1,452 −9.3% 1976 1,370 −5.6% 1981 1,389 +1.4% 1986 1,318 −5.1%	Year Pop. ±% 1991 1,166 −11.5% 1996 1,084 −7.0% 2001 917 −15.4% 2006 764 −16.7% 2011 743 −2.7% 2016 671 −9.7% 2021 607 −9.5%
Population counts are not adjusted for boundary changes. Source: Statistics Canada[12][13]

Canada Census Mother Tongue - Cloridorme, Quebec[12]
Census		Total		French				English				French & English				Other
Year		Responses		Count	Trend	Pop %		Count	Trend	Pop %		Count	Trend	Pop %		Count	Trend	Pop %
2021		605		600	9.8%	99.2%		5	n/a%	0.8%		0	100.0%	0.0%		0	0.0%	0.0%
2016		670		665	10.1%	99.3%		0	0.0%	0.0%		5	n/a%	0.7%		0	0.0%	0.0%
2011		740		740	2.0%	100.0%		0	100.0%	0.0%		0	0.0%	0.0%		0	0.0%	0.0%
2006		765		755	16.6%	98.69%		10	n/a%	1.31%		0	0.0%	0.0%		0	0.0%	0.0%
2001		905		905	11.3%	97.26%		0	0.0%	0.0%		0	0.0%	0.0%		0	0.0%	0.0%
1996		1,090		1,090	n/a	100.0%		0	n/a	0.0%		0	n/a	0.0%		0	n/a	0.0%

Government

List of former mayors:^[14]

• Cyprien Labrecque (1885–1892, 1893–1894)
• Louis Guillemette (1892–1893, 1894–1902)
• Cyrias Coulombe (1902–1903, 1908–1909)
• Richard Mercier (1903–1904)
• Pierre Bélanger (1904–1905)
• Jean Baptiste Bernatchez (1905–1908)
• Adelme Coulombe (1909–1911)
• Alphonse Caron (1911–1917)
• François Coulombe (1917–1921, 1925–1934)
• Pierre Côté (1921–1925)
• Philippe Guillemette (1934–1937)
• Romuald Coulombe (1937–1943)
• Eustache Beaudoin (1943–1949)
• Étienne Beaudoin (1949–1961, 1962–1963)
• Onias Côté (1961–1962)
• J. Alphège Florian Francoeur (1963–1968)
• Marc Bernatchez (1968–1971)
• J. Léo Fiola (1971–1979)
• Guy Gleeton (1979–1994)
• Réal Gasse (1994–2005)
• Jocelyne Huet (2005–2017)
• Denis Fortin (2017–2021)
• Pierre Martin (2021–2023)
• Marcel Mainville (2023–present)

See also

• List of township municipalities in Quebec