Tring-Jonction

Tring-Jonction (French pronunciation: [tʁiŋ ʒɔ̃ksjɔ̃]) is a village in the Beauce-Centre Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population is 1,526 as of 2021.

Tring-Jonction
Village municipality
View from Saint-Frédéric.
Motto:  Si bien chez nous
Location within Beauce-Centre RCM.
Tring-Jonction Location in southern Quebec.
Coordinates: 46°16′N 70°59′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
RCM	Beauce-Centre
Constituted	November 21, 1918
Named after	Tring[1]
Government [2]
• Mayor	Mario Groleau
• Federal riding	Beauce
• Prov. riding	Beauce-Nord
Area [2][3]
• Total	27.30 km2 (10.54 sq mi)
• Land	27.32 km2 (10.55 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[3]
• Total	1,526
• Density	55.9/km2 (145/sq mi)
• Pop 2016-2021	5.4%
• Dwellings	687
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0N 1X0
Area codes	418 and 581
Highways	R-112
Website	www.tringjonction.qc.ca

It is named after Tring, a town in Hertfordshire, England. "Jonction" refers to the Quebec Central railway station that was built in 1881.^[1]

History

Tring-Jonction was founded in 1918 by Ephrem Lagueux by splitting away from Saint-Frédéric-de-Beauce.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Tring-Jonction had a population of 1,526 living in 657 of its 687 total private dwellings, a change of 5.4% from its 2016 population of 1,448. With a land area of 27.32 km² (10.55 sq mi), it had a population density of 55.9/km² (144.7/sq mi) in 2021.^[4]

Historical census populations – Tring-Jonction

Year Pop. ±% 1921 351 —     1931 430 +22.5% 1941 288 −33.0% 1951 751 +160.8% 1956 1,083 +44.2% 1961 1,214 +12.1%	Year Pop. ±% 1966 1,297 +6.8% 1971 1,283 −1.1% 1976 1,248 −2.7% 1981 1,303 +4.4% 1986 1,333 +2.3% 1991 1,370 +2.8%	Year Pop. ±% 1996 1,387 +1.2% 2001 1,333 −3.9% 2006 1,380 +3.5% 2011 1,473 +6.7% 2016 1,448 −1.7% 2021 1,526 +5.4%
Population counts are not adjusted for boundary changes. Source: Statistics Canada[5][6][7][8]