Baie-des-Sables () is a municipality in

La Matanie Regional County Municipality La Matanie () is a regional county municipality, located in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, in Canada. From January 1, 1982, to March 9, 2013, it was known as Matane. The county seat is the city of Matane. Subdivisions There are 12 su ...

in the

Bas-Saint-Laurent The Bas-Saint-Laurent (, 'Lower Saint-Lawrence) is an administrative region of Quebec located along the south shore of the lower Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The river widens at this place, later becoming a bay that discharges into the Atlan ...

region of

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, Canada. Its elevation is .

History

The area was originally part of the Mitis seignory, purchased by Mathew MacNider in 1802, and acquired by his brother

John MacNider John MacNider (10 June 1760 – 1829) was a Scottish-Quebecer businessman who pioneered the settlement and development of the Seigneurial system of New France, Seigneuries of Grand-Métis, Quebec, Grand-Métis and Métis-sur-Mer, Quebec, Mét ...

in 1807. MacNider encouraged settlement of

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

families there. Upon John Macnider's death in 1829, the seignory was inherited by the 2 sons of Adam Lymburner Macnider, nephew of John. In 1842, the geographic township of MacNider was created. In 1853, the Mission of L'Assomption-de-Notre-Dame was established, and in 1859, the Township Municipality of MacNider was formed when it ceded from the Municipality of Métis. In 1864, the MacNider Post Office opened. The Scottish settlers began to call the place Sandy Bay, or also Sandy Beach, in reference to a prominent sandbank on the western edge of the municipality. In 1902, the post office was renamed to Sandy Bay, and renamed to the French equivalent, Baie-des-Sables, in 1925. In 1932, the township municipality followed suit and changed name and statutes from Township Municipality of MacNider to the Municipality of Baie-des-Sables.

Demographics

Language

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Government

Local government

List of former mayors: * Olivier Côté (1859–1862) * Alexis Caron (1862–1864) * Auguste Lamontagne (1864–1867) * Georges Bélanger (1867–1868, 1889–1892) * Louis Saucier (1868–1883) * Achille Chouinard (1883–1886) * Louis Martial Raymond (1886–1889) * François Parent (1892–1893) * Jean-Baptiste Pinault (1893–1894) * Théophile Fournier (1894–1898) * Georges Boucher (1898–1904) * François St-Laurent (1904–1905) * Thomas Santerre (1905–1910) * Israël Michaud (1910–1919, 1923–1931, 1933–1935) * Michel Crispo (1919–1920) * Joseph Thibault (1920–1923) * Octave Massé (1931–1933) * J. Honoré Desrosiers (1935–1936) * J. Antoine Santerre (1936–1951) * Donald Mac Donald (1951–1955) * Philippe Morin (1955–1963) * Roland Massé (1963–...) * Jacques Couillard (...–2009) * Denis Santerre * Gérald Beaulieu (2021–present)

References

External links

* {{authority control Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Bas-Saint-Laurent