Sainte-Madeleine is a
village municipality in southwestern
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Government of Canada, 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 ...
, Canada in
Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality. 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 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
This is the list of communities in Quebec that have the legal status of village municipalities (''village'', code=VL) as defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy.
This does not include Cree villages (code=VC), Na ...
References
External links
Villages in Quebec
Incorporated places in Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality
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