Lamarche () is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
in
Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...
, Canada.
Demographics
Population trend:
[Statistics Canada: ]1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
* January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
, 2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
, 2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
Events
January
* January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute.
* January 12 – A stampede during t ...
, 2011
The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
, 2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
, 2021
Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
census
* Population in 2021: 476 (2016 to 2021 population change: -7.4%)
* Population in 2016: 514
* Population in 2011: 557
* Population in 2006: 562
* Population in 2001: 527
* Population in 1996: 564
* Population in 1991: 562
* Population in 1986: 564
* Population in 1981: 591
* Population in 1976: 565
* Population in 1971: 587
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 255 (total dwellings: 396)
Mother tongue:
* English as first language: 1.1%
* French as first language: 98.9%
* English and French as first language: 0%
* Other as first language: 0%
Education
The
Central Quebec School Board serves the municipality.
See also
*
List of municipalities in Quebec
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References
External links
Municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean
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