Saint-Édouard-de-Fabre

Saint-Édouard-de-Fabre (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿edwaʁ də fabʁ]) is a parish municipality in western Quebec, Canada, in the Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality.

Saint-Édouard-de-Fabre
Parish municipality
Downtown of Saint-Édouard-de-Fabre
Location within Témiscamingue RCM
St-Édouard-de-Fabre Location in western Quebec
Coordinates: 47°12′N 79°22′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Abitibi-Témiscamingue
RCM	Témiscamingue
Settled	1870
Constituted	October 3, 1912
Government [2]
• Mayor	Mario Drouin
• Federal riding	Abitibi—Témiscamingue
• Prov. riding	Rouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue
Area [2][3]
• Total	216.86 km2 (83.73 sq mi)
• Land	190.29 km2 (73.47 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[3]
• Total	671
• Density	3.5/km2 (9/sq mi)
• Pop (2016–21)	6.8%
• Dwellings	320
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	J0Z 1Z0
Area code	819
Website	municipalites-du-quebec.ca/st-edouard-de-fabre/

It is named after Édouard-Charles Fabre.^[1]

In addition to the main namesake population centre, the municipality also includes the hamlet of Fabre-Station^[4] and the community of Pointe-Martel.^[5]

History

In the 17th century, a fur trading post was established on the eastern shore of Lake Temiskaming, 18 kilometres (11 mi) south of Ville-Marie. It was an important French-Canadian post, operating for almost two centuries.^[1][6]

In 1870, the first settler arrived there and cleared the first land for agriculture in the Témiscamingue region. At the end of that century, mining prospectors arrived and discovered copper, cobalt, nickel, and silver deposits, resulting in a brief mining boom (that ended in 1904 when larger deposits were found in Cobalt, Ontario).^[6]

In 1899, the parish of Saint-Édouard was founded, named after Édouard-Charles Fabre. In 1904, the Township Municipality of Fabre was established, which was dissolved in 1912, when it was divided into the Parish Municipalities of Saint-Édouard-de-Fabre and Saint-Placide.^[1][6]

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Édouard-de-Fabre had a population of 671 living in 287 of its 320 total private dwellings, a change of 6.8% from its 2016 population of 628. With a land area of 190.29 km² (73.47 sq mi), it had a population density of 3.5/km² (9.1/sq mi) in 2021.^[3]

Canada census – Saint-Édouard-de-Fabre community profile

	2021	2016	2011
Population	671 (+6.8% from 2016)	628 (-3.2% from 2011)	649 (-7.4% from 2006)
Land area	190.29 km2 (73.47 sq mi)	191.91 km2 (74.10 sq mi)	192.25 km2 (74.23 sq mi)
Population density	3.5/km2 (9.1/sq mi)	3.3/km2 (8.5/sq mi)	3.4/km2 (8.8/sq mi)
Median age	44.0 (M: 42.0, F: 46.4)	44.4 (M: 43.0, F: 45.5)	41.9 (M: 40.9, F: 43.8)
Private dwellings	320 (total)  287 (occupied)	306 (total)  266 (occupied)	305 (total)  261 (occupied)
Median household income	$75,500	$63,744	$60,247

References: 2021^[7] 2016^[8] 2011^[9]

Historical census populations – Saint-Édouard-de-Fabre

Year Pop. ±% 1911 653 —     1921 912 +39.7% 1931 976 +7.0% 1941 1,006 +3.1% 1951 1,185 +17.8% 1956 1,253 +5.7% 1961 1,066 −14.9%	Year Pop. ±% 1966 962 −9.8% 1971 783 −18.6% 1976 709 −9.5% 1981 758 +6.9% 1986 750 −1.1% 1991 728 −2.9% 1996 734 +0.8%	Year Pop. ±% 2001 675 −8.0% 2006 701 +3.9% 2011 649 −7.4% 2016 628 −3.2% 2021 671 +6.8%
Population counts are not adjusted for boundary changes. Source: Statistics Canada[3][10]

Mother tongue (2021):^[3]

• English as first language: 2.2%
• French as first language: 97.0%
• English and French as first language: 0%
• Other as first language: 1.5%

Government

List of former mayors:

• Serge Marcil (...–2009?)
• Réjean Drouin (2009?–2011)
• Claudine Laforge Clouâtre (2011–2013)
• Mario Drouin (2013–present)

See also

• List of parish municipalities in Quebec