Sainte-Madeleine is a
village municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in southwestern
Quebec
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, Canada in
Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality
Les Maskoutains is a regional county municipality in the Montérégie region in southwestern Quebec, Canada. Its seat is in Saint-Hyacinthe.
The name comes from Algonquin word ''maskutew'' meaning "bear plain" in plular.
Subdivisions
There are 1 ...
. The population as of the
Canada 2011 Census was 2,356.
Le Camping Ste-Madeleine, founded in 1967 for visitors to EXPO 67, is the area's principal tourist attraction. The annual musical event, the Festival Country du Camping Sainte-Madeleine, held in late July, attracts approximately 5,000 visitors to the community of 2,356.
Individuals born in Sainte-Madeleine include artist
France Jodoin.
[Boucher, Sarah. ''De toutes petites histoires / Simple Short Stories''. Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke: 2012. Print.]
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, Sainte-Madeleine 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.
See also
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List of village municipalities in Quebec
References
External links
Villages in Quebec
Incorporated places in Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality
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