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Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac
Parish municipality in Quebec, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʁɔk də mekinak] ⓘ) is a parish municipality in the Mékinac Regional County Municipality, in administrative region of Mauricie, in the province of Quebec in Canada.
The Saint-Roch parish was named in honour of Roch of Montpellier. The term Mékinac is associated with several homonyms of place names in the sector: Mékinac River, Saint-Joseph-de-Mékinac and Mékinac Lake.
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Geography
Municipal territory covers both side of Saint-Maurice River, including a small portion of La Mauricie National Park. The village of Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac is located at the top of a hill on Eastern side of Saint-Maurice River.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac had a population of 304 living in 174 of its 295 total private dwellings, a change of 0.7% from its 2016 population of 302. With a land area of 144.52 km2 (55.80 sq mi), it had a population density of 2.1/km2 (5.4/sq mi) in 2021.[4]
Mother tongue:
- English as first language: 1.7%
- French as first language: 96.7%
- English and French as first language: 0%
- Other as first language: 1.7%
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