Mont-Joli () is a city in the

La Mitis Regional County Municipality La Mitis is a regional county municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent The Bas-Saint-Laurent (Lower Saint-Lawrence), is an administrative region of Quebec located along the south shore of the lower Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The river wide ...

within the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of

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, Canada. It is the county seat. The city is located east of

Rimouski Rimouski ( ) is a city in Quebec, Canada. Rimouski is located in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region, at the mouth of the Rimouski River. It has a population of 48,935 (as of 2021). Rimouski is the site of Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), the C ...

near the south shore of the

Saint Lawrence River The St. Lawrence River (french: Fleuve Saint-Laurent, ) is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. Its headwaters begin flowing from Lake Ontario in a (roughly) northeasterly direction, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, connectin ...

History

In 1867, the main condition for New Brunswick and Nova-Scotia entering into the Canadian Confederation was, to be linked to the rest of the country by the railway. In 1868, work began on the

Intercolonial Railway The Intercolonial Railway of Canada , also referred to as the Intercolonial Railway (ICR), was a historic Canadian railway that operated from 1872 to 1918, when it became part of Canadian National Railways. As the railway was also completely ow ...

and the authorities decided to have the railway turn at Saint-Octave-de-Métis in Gaspésie. However, this village, because of its rugged landscape, was not suitable to receive the train station and maintenance shops. The engineers turned to the higher 2nd farming rank of Sainte-Flavie, and the train station was named Sainte-Flavie-Station. In 1880, Sainte-Flavie-Station became separate and was named Mont-Joli, the name which the first settlers had used to describe the area. On 13 June 2001, the neighbouring municipality of Saint-Jean-Baptiste (not to be confused with a different Saint-Jean-Baptiste in the

Montérégie Montérégie () is an administrative region in the southwest part of Quebec. It includes the cities of Boucherville, Brossard, Châteauguay, Longueuil, Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield and Vaudreuil-Dorion. The ...

region) merged with Mont-Joli.

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

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, Mont-Joli 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.

Transportation

Mont-Joli is the easternmost end of Autoroute 20, whose segment connects with the city of Rimouski. Route 132 runs through the centre of Mont-Joli as part of a loop that circumnavigates the

Gaspé Peninsula The Gaspé Peninsula, also known as Gaspesia (; ), is a peninsula along the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River that extends from the Matapedia Valley in Quebec, Canada, into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. It is separated from New Brunswick o ...

; it is about southeast of Sainte-Flavie, where Route 132 intersects with itself.

Mont-Joli Airport Mont-Joli Airport is located north northwest of Mont-Joli, Quebec, Canada. It is the only airport with scheduled service in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. History World War II In the summer of 1940 the Royal Canadian Air Force selected a fla ...

is the only airport with scheduled service in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. Mont-Joli is also served by the

Mont-Joli railway station Mont-Joli station is a Via Rail station in Mont-Joli, Quebec, Canada. Located on Avenue de la Gare, it is staffed and is wheelchair-accessible. Mont-Joli is currently served by Via Rail's ''Ocean'' and was previously served by Montreal–Gaspé t ...

Notables

* Joseph-Adalbert Landry: One of the inventors of the snowauto, patented in 1923 * Bertrand Dandonneau: Inventor of tights *

René Dupéré René Dupéré (born 1946) is a Canadian composer from Mont-Joli, Québec, Canada. Biography Dupéré is best known as the composer and arranger of music for contemporary circus productions by the Canadian entertainment company Cirque du Soleil ...

: Composer for

Cirque du Soleil Cirque du Soleil (, ; "Circus of the Sun" or "Sun Circus") is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. Located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 Ju ...

Robert Piché Robert Piché (born November 5, 1952) is a Canadian pilot. On August 24, 2001, he was Pilot in command, captain of the Airbus A330 flying Air Transat Flight 236 and managed to land the aircraft safely in the Azores after it lost all power due to f ...

: Airline pilot in Mont-Joli, involved in the 236 Air Transat incident *

Donald Dufresne Donald Alain Joseph Dufresne (born April 10, 1967) is a Canadians, Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. Biography Dufresne was born in Quebec City, Quebec. As a youth, he played in the 1980 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tourn ...

: Ex-NHL hockey player and assistant manager to the Rimouski Océanic *

Pierre Labrie Pierre Labrie (born 23 April 1972) is a French-speaking Quebecer, Québécois poet, born at Mont-Joli, Quebec. He now lives in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Trois-Rivières. Very involved in the social and cultural milieu of the region, he was preside ...

: Writer * Micheline Morisset: Writer *

Gervais Rioux Gervais Rioux (born 17 November 1960) is a Canadian former road bicycle racer. He rode at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Rioux is the owner of Argon 18. Professional Cycling Career From 1981 to 1990, Gervais Rioux represented Canada at major inte ...

: Olympic cyclist ( Seoul, 1988) * Gaétan D'Amours: Mr. Québec 1960, Mr. Canada 1961, Mr. America 1961, Mr. Universe 1967 (5th place) * Claudine Desrosiers: Researcher for worker relations * Jacques Lelièvre: Karting pilot *

Danielle Doyer Danielle Doyer (born December 17, 1951 in Mont-Joli, Quebec) is a Quebec politician and teacher. She is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Matapédia in the Gaspésie region. She is a member of the Parti Québé ...

: Politician * Tommy Gagnon: Musician, music group Delta 20 * Maurice Lamontagne: Economist and Canadian Senator

Climate

References

External links

City website
{{authority control Cities and towns in Quebec Incorporated places in Bas-Saint-Laurent