Stornoway, Quebec

Stornoway (French: Stornoway; Scottish Gaelic: Steòrnabhagh) is a small village of 500 people. It is a municipality in Quebec, in the regional county municipality of Le Granit in the administrative region of Estrie. It is named after Stornoway, a burgh on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland by Colin Noble in 1852, replacing Bruceville.

Stornoway
Municipality
Village of Stornoway
Location within Le Granit RCM
Stornoway Location in southern Quebec
Coordinates: 45°43′N 71°10′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Estrie
RCM	Le Granit
Constituted	January 1, 1858
Government [2]
• Mayor	Pierre-André Gagné
• Federal riding	Mégantic—L'Érable
• Prov. riding	Mégantic
Area [2][3]
• Total	184.60 km2 (71.27 sq mi)
• Land	180.15 km2 (69.56 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[3]
• Total	535
• Density	3/km2 (8/sq mi)
• Pop 2016-2021	0.9%
• Dwellings	272
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0Y 1N0
Area code	819
Highways	R-108 R-161
Website	www.munstornoway.qc.ca

It is at the intersection of two provincial highways, Route 108 and Route 161.

Demographics

Historical population of Stornoway, Quebec
(Source: StatsCan)

Year	1861	1871	1881	1891	1901	1911	1921	1931	1941	1951	1956	1961	1966	1971	1976	1981	1986	1991	1996	2001	2006	2011	2016	2021
Population	800	702	944	705	684	863	909	913	1009	920	887	826	744	671	588	571	543	546	564	606	584	559	530	535

External links

• Media related to Stornoway, Quebec at Wikimedia Commons

Former official website of Stornoway: "Municipalité de Stornoway". 2013-01-01. Archived from the original on 2013-01-01. (in French)

• Legendre Mill ^{[dead link]}
• Région du Lac-Mégantic (in French)
• Mégantic Region (in English)
• Stornoway (in French)
• Toponymy Commission of Quebec (in English)
• Affaires municipales et régions - cartes régionales (in French)