Saint-Elphège () is a
parish municipality
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located on the east bank of the
Saint-François River
The Saint-François River is a right tributary of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada.
Its source is Lake Saint-François in Chaudière-Appalaches, southeast of Thetford Mines. It flows southwest towards Sherbrooke, where it changes course ...
in the
Nicolet-Yamaska Regional County Municipality
Nicolet-Yamaska is a regional county municipality in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, Canada.
The county seat is Nicolet.
Subdivisions
There are 16 subdivisions within the RCM:
;Cities & Towns (1)
* Nicolet
;Municipalities (11)
* ...
of
Quebec
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, Canada. The population as of the
Canada 2011 Census was 292.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Saint-Elphège 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
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, 2001
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, 2006
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, 2011
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census
Mother tongue language (2006)
[2006 Statistics Canada Community Profile: Saint-Elphège, Quebec](_blank)
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See also
*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 Centre-du-Québec
Nicolet-Yamaska Regional County Municipality