Normandin is a city located on the west side of

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in the

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. Normandin is named after the surveyor Joseph-Laurent Normandin. Its history of European-Canadian settlement began in 1878 when the first pioneers arrived. Alphonse Laliberté was elected as Normandin's first mayor in 1890. In 1926, the village was set up as a municipality distinct from the township; the notary J.S.N. Turcotte occupied the function of first magistrate. The city is the birthplace of radio talk show psychiatrist

Pierre Mailloux Pierre Mailloux (born January 14, 1949), better known as Doc Mailloux or Docteur Mailloux, is a controversial Canadian psychiatrist and radio show host. Background Born in Normandin in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec. He studied ...

. It is also the hometown (though not birthplace) of André Dédé Fortin, the late lead singer of Les Colocs.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Normandin 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. In 2021, the median age was 45.2, as opposed to 41.6 for all of Canada. French was the

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of 99.5% of residents in 2021. The next most common mother tongues were

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at 0.3%, followed by

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at 0.2%. 0.3% reported both English and French as their first language. As of 2021,

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comprised 5.2% of the population, most of whom were

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, and visible minorities contributed 0.5%. The largest visible minority groups in Normandin are Black (0.2%) and Latin American (0.2%). In 2021, 78.9% of the population identified as

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, a 22.0% decrease from 2011, while 14.5% said they had no religious affiliation.

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were the largest religious minority, making up 0.7% of the population. There were no non-Christian religious minorities. Counting both single and multiple responses, the most commonly identified ethnocultural ancestries were: ''(Percentages may total more than 100% due to rounding and multiple responses).'' Population trend: * Population in 2021: 2991 (2016 to 2021 population change: -1.4%) * Population in 2016: 3033 * Population in 2011: 3137 * Population in 2006: 3220 * Population in 2001: 3524 * Population in 1996: 3873 * Population in 1991: 3957

Notable people

Gilles Bouchard Gilles Bouchard (born February 28, 1971) is a Canadian ice hockey coach with the Syracuse Crunch in the American Hockey League. He previously coached the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) for five seasons. ...

(born 1971), Canadian ice hockey coach *

(born 1949), Canadian psychiatrist and radio host

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{{authority control Cities and towns in Quebec Incorporated places in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean Maria-Chapdelaine Regional County Municipality