Saint-Octave-de-Métis 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'' is used in some jurisdictions, as noted below.
The table below lists countries which use this admini ...
in
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
, Canada.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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 ...
conducted by
Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada (StatCan; french: Statistique Canada), 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 cultur ...
, Saint-Octave-de-Métis 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.
Notable people
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Jules-André Brillant
Jules-André Brillant (30 June 1888 – 11 May 1973) was a French Canadian entrepreneur who was active in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec from 1920 to 1962.
He founded an electrical power company in 1922, a telephone company in 1927 and a s ...
, born 1888, baptized and educated in Saint-Octave-de-Métis, French Canadian entrepreneur
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Hormisdas Langlais
Hormisdas Langlais was a Canadian politician and a seven-term Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.
He was born on September 2, 1890, in Saint-Octave-de-Métis, Bas-Saint-Laurent.
Langlais ran as an Action libérale nationale (ALN) can ...
, born 1890, Canadian politician and a seven-term Member of the
Legislative Assembly of Quebec
The Legislative Assembly of Quebec (French: ''Assemblée législative du Québec'') was the name of the lower house of Quebec's legislature from 1867 to December 31, 1968, when it was renamed the National Assembly of Quebec. At the same time, t ...
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Marguerite Ruest-Pitre, born 1908, Canadian murderer also known as "''Madame le Corbeau''", last woman criminal executed in Canada (1953)
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Marie-Thérèse Fortin, born 1959, Canadian actress
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Anaïs Favron
Anaïs Favron (born January 11, 1977) is a Canadian radio and TV host, actress, and improviser.
Biography
Anaïs began her artistic career in television with small roles in the shows "Allô Prof", "Le bonheur est dans la télé" and "L'été ...
, born 1977, radio and TV host, actress, and improviser
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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