Ragueneau is a
parish municipality
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in
Quebec
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, Canada, on Outardes Bay on the north shore of the
Saint Lawrence River
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.
History
The first settlers arrived in 1920, mostly from
Saint-Paul-du-Nord,
Les Escoumins, and
Sainte-Anne-de-Portneuf. That same year, Ragueneau Township was proclaimed and named after Jesuit
Paul Ragueneau (1608-1680). In 1926, its post office opened.
Three communities developed concurrently along the shores of the Saint Lawrence: Rivière-à-la-Truite in the north-east, Ruisseau-Vert in the centre, and Ragueneau in the south-west. The main administrative, commercial, cultural, and religious activities concentrated in Ruisseau-Vert, so that over time this community became known as Ragueneau itself. In 1951, the Parish Municipality of Ragueneau was incorporated.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada, Ragueneau 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:
[Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census]
* Population in 2011: 1405 (2006 to 2011 population change: -7.6%)
* Population in 2006: 1520
* Population in 2001: 1584
* Population in 1996: 1684
* Population in 1991: 1722
Mother tongue:
* English as first language: 0%
* French as first language: 97.7%
* English and French as first language: 0%
* Other as first language: 2.3%
References
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Parish municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Côte-Nord