Ragueneau () is a
parish municipality located on Outardes Bay, on the north shore of the
maritime estuary of the St. Lawrence River, in
Côte-Nord
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The region runs along the St. Lawrence River and then the Gulf of St. Lawrence, ...
region,
Manicouagan RCM, in
Quebec
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,
Canada
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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
Paul Ragueneau, SJ (; 18 March 1608 – 3 September 1680) was a Jesuit missionary in New France.
Biography
He was born in Paris and died in the same city. He is sometimes confused with his elder brother François, also a Jesuit. Father Franço ...
(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 conducted by
Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada (StatCan; ), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. It is headquartered in ...
, 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.
[
Mother tongue (2021):][
* 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
External links
Municipaliaty of Ragueneau
official web site (Fr)
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Parish municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Côte-Nord