Boischatel is a municipality in the

Capitale-Nationale Capitale-Nationale (; en, National Capital region) is one of the 17 List of Quebec regions, administrative regions of Quebec. It is anchored by the provincial capital, Quebec City, and is largely coextensive with that city's Communauté métropol ...

region of

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

, Canada. The town was originally called Saint-Jean-de-Boischatel. The town itself is located along the

Montmorency River The Montmorency River is a tributary of North-East bank of St. Lawrence river, flowing in the administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, in the province of Quebec, Canada. The course of the river successively crosses the regional county municipa ...

. Near the boundary with Beauport are the

Montmorency Falls The Montmorency Falls (french: Chute Montmorency) is a large waterfall on the Montmorency River in Quebec, Canada. Location The falls are located on the boundary between the borough of Beauport, and Boischatel, about from the heart of old Q ...

, where 35,000 litres of water per second fall from a height one-and-a-half times greater than that of

Niagara Falls Niagara Falls () is a group of three waterfalls at the southern end of Niagara Gorge, spanning the border between the province of Ontario in Canada and the state of New York in the United States. The largest of the three is Horseshoe Falls, ...

Demographics

Population trend:Statistics Canada: 1996,

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census * Population in 2021: 8231 (2016 to 2021 population change: 8.5%) * Population in 2016: 7587 * Population in 2011: 6465 * Population in 2006: 5287 * Population in 2001: 4303 * Population in 1996: 4152 * Population in 1991: 3878 Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 3,050 (total dwellings: 3,128) First language: * English as first language: 0.7% * French as first language: 97.3% * English and French as first language: 0.3% * Other as first language: 1.4%

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{{authority control Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Capitale-Nationale

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