Estérel is a

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in Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada. The municipal territory almost entirely extends around Lake Masson, whereas the village itself is situated on the eastern shore of this lake.

History

The area of Estérel was first part of the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson, which formed in the early 1860s. Around 1920, Baron

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, son of Belgian industrialist

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, acquired substantially all the land around Lake Masson intending to build a resort called Estérel, named after the Esterel massif in Provence, south-east France. In 1939, the Estérel Post Office opened. In 1958, Fridolin Simard, an industrialist from Abitibi, bought over 2000 hectares of the baron's estate and completed the holiday resort. A year later in 1959, The Town of Estérel was formed when it separated from Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson. On October 10, 2001, the Town of Estérel and the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson were merged to become the Town of Sainte-Marguerite–Estérel. On January 1, 2006, after a municipal referendum, the Town of Estérel was however re-established and the Town of Sainte-Marguerite–Estérel was renamed to its former name of Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Estérel 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: * Population in 2021: 262 (2016 to 2021 population change: 33.7%) * Population in 2016: 196 * Population in 2011: 199 * Population in 2006: 256 ** 2001 to 2006 population change: 41.4% * Population in 2001: 181 * Population in 1996: 108 * Population in 1991: 119 Mother tongue: * English as first language: 17% * French as first language: 75.5% * English and French as first language: 3.8% * Other as first language: 5.7%

Education

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Esterel, Quebec Incorporated places in Laurentides Cities and towns in Quebec

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