Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn, known locally as Woburn, is a parish municipality in
Le Granit Regional County Municipality in the
Estrie
Estrie () is an administrative region of Quebec that comprises the Eastern Townships. ''Estrie'', a French neologism, was coined as a derivative of ''est'', "east". Originally settled by anglophones, today it is about 90 per cent francophone. Angl ...
region of Quebec, Canada. The population is 695 as of the
Canada 2011 Census. A parish municipality is the territory of a
parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one o ...
established as a municipality.
Settlement began around 1880.
It is 5 km from
Canada–United States border and the
Coburn Gore-Woburn Border Crossing.
Mount Gosford lies entirely within the parish, making Woburn one of the highest towns in Quebec, at an altitude of .
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, Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn 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
Types of municipalities in Quebec
The following is a list of the types of local and supralocal territorial units in Quebec, including those used solely for statistical purposes, as defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy and compiled by the Ins ...
References
External links
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Parish municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Estrie
Le Granit Regional County Municipality