Hope is a

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in the Canadian province of

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, located within the Bonaventure Regional County Municipality. Its population was 568 in the

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. The only population centre within the township is Saint-Jogues ().

History

The township was surveyed circa 1786, and named in honour of British Colonel

Henry Hope Henry Hope (1735–1811) was an Amsterdam merchant banker born in Braintree, Massachusetts. He emigrated to the Netherlands to join the family business Hope & Co. at a young age. From 1779, Henry became the manager of Hope & Co. and he participa ...

(c. 1746 – 1789), lieutenant-governor of Quebec from 1785 to 1789. At that time, the township also included the territory of

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, and Saint-Godefroi. In 1913, Saint-Godefroi split off, and in 1936, Hope Town became a separate incorporated municipality. The community of Saint-Jogues was formed in 1930 when 52 settlers were encouraged to colonize Gaspésie's interior during the Great Depression. By 1937, there were 300 residents in this village.

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, Hope 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. Mother tongue: * English as first language: 17.3% * French as first language: 80.9% * English and French as first language: 0% * Other as first language: 1.7%

References

{{authority control Township municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine

History

Demographics

See also

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