Senneterre is a
parish municipality
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in northwestern
Quebec
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,
Canada
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, in the
La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality. The parish is mostly a rural municipality that almost completely surrounds the actual population centre of the neighbouring
City of Senneterre.
The place is named after the geographic township of Senneterre, that in turn was named in honour of a captain of the Languedoc Regiment that fought under
General Montcalm.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada, Senneterre 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, 2001, 2006, 2011 census]
* Population in 2011: 1218 (2006 to 2011 population change: 2.7%)
* Population in 2006: 1186
* Population in 2001: 1192
* Population in 1996: 1169
* Population in 1991: 1082
Mother tongue:
* English as first language: 0.9%
* French as first language: 99.1%
* English and French as first language: 0%
* Other as first language: 0%
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Senneterre (Parish), Quebec
Parish municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Abitibi-Témiscamingue