Baie-Trinité ( 2016 Population 407) is a village in the Manicouagan Regional County Municipality in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. It is located on the coast of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence at the mouth of the Trinity River (French: ''Rivière de la Trinité''), a salmon river which flows through the village. The major economic sectors are forestry and fisheries. The village and municipality are named after the small Trinity Bay into which the Trinity River drains. The river's name may be attributed to

Jacques Cartier Jacques Cartier ( , also , , ; br, Jakez Karter; 31 December 14911 September 1557) was a French-Breton maritime explorer for France. Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of th ...

who sailed by this river on Trinity Sunday in 1536. The first permanent settlers came c. 1840, and in 1898, the Baie-de-la-Trinité Mission was established.

Demographics

In the

2021 Census of Population The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...

conducted by

Statistics Canada Statistics Canada (StatCan; french: Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and cultur ...

, Baie-Trinité had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Population trend:Statistics Canada:

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* Population in 2016: 407 (2011 to 2016 population change: -18.8%) * Population in 2011: 419 (2006 to 2011 population change: -20.3%) * Population in 2006: 526 * Population in 2001: 604 * Population in 1996: 646 * Population in 1991: 651 Mother tongue:Statistics Canada 2016 Census
Baie-Trinité community profile
/ref> * English as first language: 1.2% * French as first language: 98.8% * English and French as first language: 0% * Other as first language: 0%

Galerie

Image:Centre des naufrages et l'église de Baie-Trinité.jpg, Trinity Bay church in Winter Image:Ouest de la baie.jpg, View of the western section of Trinity Bay

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Baie-Trinite, Quebec Villages in Quebec Incorporated places in Côte-Nord