Saint-Donat is a
parish municipality
A parish is an administrative division used by several countries. To distinguish it from an ''ecclesiastical parish'', the term ''civil parish
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in
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 ...
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 widens at this place, later becoming a bay that discharges into the Atlanti ...
region of
Quebec
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, Canada. Its population in the
Canada 2021 Census
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 ...
was 835.
History
The parish was formed around a church c. 1700 and established in 1869 as part of the
Mont-Joli
Mont-Joli () is a city in the La Mitis Regional County Municipality within the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. It is the county seat. The city is located east of Rimouski near the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River.
History
In ...
municipal agglomeration. Saint-Donat then separated from Mont-Joli in 1976 along with
Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage and
Sainte-Luce.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Saint-Donat 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
Population trend:
[Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, ]2011
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census
See also
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List of parish municipalities in Quebec
This is a list of municipalities that have the Quebec municipal type of parish municipality (''paroisse'', code=P), an administrative division defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy.
The '' Commission de toponym ...
References
External links
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Parish municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Bas-Saint-Laurent
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