Saint-Tharcisius 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.
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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.
The village was named after Roman martyr
Tarcisius
Tarsicius or Tarcisius was a martyr of the early Christian church who lived in the 3rd century. The little that is known about him comes from a metrical inscription by Pope Damasus I, who was pope in the second half of the 4th century.
History
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who preferred to be killed rather than desecrate the Eucharist in the 3rd century.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Saint-Tharcisius 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: 100%
* English and French as first language: 0%
* Other as first language: 1.2%
Education
A French-language elementary school, École Saint-Tharcisius, is operated by the
Centre de services scolaire des Monts-et-Marées.
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
La Matapédia Regional County Municipality
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