Massueville

Massueville is a village municipality in Pierre-De Saurel Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada. The population as of the 2021 Canadian census was 547.

Massueville
Village municipality
Location within Pierre-De Saurel RCM
Massueville Location in southern Quebec
Coordinates: 45°55′N 72°56′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Montérégie
RCM	Pierre-De Saurel
Founded	1835
Constituted	March 25, 1903
Government [2][3]
• Mayor	Richard Gauthier
• Federal riding	Bas-Richelieu— Nicolet—Bécancour
• Prov. riding	Richelieu
Area [2][4]
• Total	1.30 km2 (0.50 sq mi)
• Land	1.55 km2 (0.60 sq mi)
	There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources
Population  (2021)[4]
• Total	547
• Density	353.0/km2 (914/sq mi)
• Pop (2016-21)	3.4%
• Dwellings	261
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	J0G 1K0
Area codes	450 and 579
Highways	R-239
Website	www.massueville.net

It is named after Gaspard-Aimé Massue, landowner (1812–1875).^[5] The village is an enclave within the Municipality of Saint-Aimé. It lies along the banks of the Yamaska River.^[1]

The core of the town is composed of several well kept heritage houses.^[6]

History

Fire involving an abandoned convent

In 1835, Gaspard-Aimé Massue, lord of the Bonsecours Seignory, donated land to the parish on which first a chapel was built that same year, followed by the church in 1841, and the original presbytery around 1850.^[6]

In 1903, the village was incorporated when it separated from the Parish Municipality of Saint-Aimé.^[1]

Massueville had a big fire near the church in an abandoned convent on 27 October 2006.^[7]

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Massueville had a population of 547 living in 249 of its 261 total private dwellings, a change of 3.4% from its 2016 population of 529. With a land area of 1.55 km² (0.60 sq mi), it had a population density of 352.9/km² (914.0/sq mi) in 2021.^[4]

Historical census populations – Massueville, Quebec

Year Pop. ±% 1921 654 —     1931 598 −8.6% 1941 555 −7.2% 1951 575 +3.6% 1956 644 +12.0% 1961 580 −9.9%	Year Pop. ±% 1966 606 +4.5% 1971 632 +4.3% 1976 685 +8.4% 1981 671 −2.0% 1986 621 −7.5% 1991 630 +1.4%	Year Pop. ±% 1996 592 −6.0% 2001 557 −5.9% 2006 520 −6.6% 2011 516 −0.8% 2016 529 +2.5% 2021 547 +3.4%
Source: Statistics Canada[8][9]

Mother tongue language (2021):^[4]

• English as first language: 0.9%
• French as first language: 97.3%
• Both English and French as first language: 0%
• Other as first language: 0.9%

Local government

List of former mayors:^[10]

• Prospère P. Lanoie (1903–1904)
• Paul Dufault (1904–1906)
• Joseph Archambault (1906–1907)
• Joseph Ledoux (1907–1908)
• Delphis Sylvestre (1908–1909, 1923–1927, 1935–1939)
• Louis Archambault (1909–1912, 1917–1921)
• Joseph Beauregard (1912–1913)
• Michel St-Germain (1913–1914)
• George Laferté (1914–1917)
• George Ed. Hébert (1921–1923)
• Paul Boisvert (1927–1929, 1933–1935)
• Frédéric J. Normand (1929–1933)
• Albert Bélanger (1939–1947)
• Michel Proulx (1947–1948)
• Arthur Lanoie (1948–1951)
• Léonard Parent (1951–1957)
• Maurice Mathieu (1957–1959)
• Jean-Jacques Falardeau (1959–1969)
• Wildor Hébert (1969–1971, 1977–1993)
• Robert Niquette (1971–1977)
• Pierre Michaud (1993–2005)
• Denis Marion (2005–2021)
• Richard Gauthier (2021–present)

See also

• List of village municipalities in Quebec
• Aignan-Aimé Massue (1781–1866), father of Gaspard-Aimé Massue
• Joseph-Aimé Massue (1860–1891), son of Gaspard-Aimé Massue