Saint-Paul is a municipality in the
Lanaudière
Lanaudière (, ) is one of the seventeen administrative regions of Quebec, Canada, situated immediately to the northeast of Montreal. It has a total population ( 2016 Census) of 494,796 inhabitants, an increase of 4.9% over the 2011 census.
Geogr ...
region of Quebec, Canada, part of the
Joliette Regional County Municipality
Joliette is a regional county municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is Joliette.
The municipality has a land area of 417.41 km2 and its 2021 census population of 71,124 inhabitants.
Subdivisions
There are 10 s ...
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History
Saint-Paul was born in the northeast of the former Lordship of Lavaltrie. The first settlers, mainly from Saint-Pierre-du-Portage (L’Assomption) and Saint-Sulpice, cleared the territory gradually. First along the L’Assomption River around 1748, then on the coast of the Ouareau River around 1750 and on the Saint-Pierre stream around 1765. The population grew rapidly. Then, the territory was known as Saint-Paul-de-Lavaltrie
In 1855, the Parliament of United Canada passed the Lower Canada Municipalities and Roads Act to ensure the legal existence of many localities. That year, on July 1, a municipality was officially born under the name Conversion-de-Saint-Paul. In April 1922, the more urban sector of Conversion-de-Saint-Paul splitted away to form the new village municipality of Saint-Paul. That village changed its name seven years later to become the current village of
Saint-Pierre. Meanwhile the rural Conversion-de-Saint-Paul would eventually change its name to only Saint-Paul, in 1954, to become the municipality we currently know.
Demographics
Population trend:
* Population in 2021: 6566 (2016 to 2021 population change: 11.5%)
* Population in 2016: 5891
* Population in 2011: 5122
* Population in 2006: 3987
* Population in 2001: 3616 (or 3606 with 2006 boundaries)
* Population in 1996: 3644
* Population in 1991: 3648
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 2701 (total dwellings: 2755)
Mother tongue:
* English as first language: 0.8%
* French as first language: 95.8%
* English and French as first language: 0.8%
* Other as first language: 1.9%
Education
Commission scolaire des Samares The Centre de services scolaire des Samares is a francophone school district headquartered in Saint-Félix-de-Valois, in the Canadian province of Quebec. operates francophone public schools, including:
* École La Passerelle
** pavillon Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur
** pavillon Vert-Demain
The
Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board
The Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board (SWLSB, french: Commission scolaire Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier, CSSWL) is a school board headquartered in Rosemère, Quebec in Greater Montreal.
It officially came into existence in July 1998 when English-language sc ...
operates anglophone public schools, including:
* Joliette Elementary School in
Saint-Charles-Borromée
Saint-Charles-Borromée, Quebec ( 2021 Population 15,285) is a city in southwest-central Quebec, Canada, on the l'Assomption River. In Joliette Regional County Municipality, Saint-Charles-Borromée has the Maison Antoine-Lacombe, a heritage hom ...
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Joliette High School
Joliette High School (JHS, french: École secondaire Joliette) is a public anglophone secondary school in Joliette, Quebec. Operated by the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board, it is the sole anglophone high school in Lanaudière. it has about 265 ...
in
Joliette
The sole private school is operated by a cult,
Mission de l'Esprit-Saint. It opened in 2016, following the foreclosure of the former illegal school, a decade ago :
* École l'Accord
[Official websit]
"Retrieved on May 9, 2019.
See also
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List of municipalities in Quebec
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Quebec is the second-most populous province in Canada with 8,501,833 residents as of 2021 and is the largest in land area at . For statistical purposes, the province is divided into 1,282 census subdivisions, which are m ...
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Incorporated places in Lanaudière
Municipalities in Quebec