Belcourt () is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
in northwestern
Quebec
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,
Canada
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, in the
La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality
La Vallée-de-l'Or () is a regional county municipality in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region in Northwestern Quebec, Canada. The seat is in Val-d'Or. It is named for its gold deposits in the Harricana River and Bell River valleys.
History
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.
Its economy depends on forestry, as well as businesses and industries in
Senneterre.
History
Following the construction of the
National Transcontinental Railway
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The Grand Trunk partnership
The completion o ...
, the area opened up for colonization. The new settlement was originally called Café or Coffee, taken from the railway station name, but renamed to Goulet, after the first permanent settler, Louis Goulet. In 1915, he arrived with his family and employees, 68 people in all, to operate a sawmill that he had built on the banks of the Taschereau River, between Carpentier and Courville Lakes.
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In 1918, the place was incorporated as the United Township Municipality of Carpentier-et-Courville, but the settlement continued to be called Goulet. Since there already was a Goulet Post Office in Bellechasse County, it was renamed to Belcourt in 1927, in honour of Napoléon-Antoine Belcourt (1860-1932). In 1958, the municipality was also renamed and changed statutes at the same time to become the Municipality of Belcourt.][
In 1962, it lost part of its territory when the Municipality of Champneuf was created.]
Demographics
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents (2021): 114 (total dwellings: 120)[
Mother tongue (2021):][
* English as first language: 2 %
* French as first language: 98 %
* English and French as first language: 0 %
* Other as first language: 0 %
]
Local government
List of former mayors:[
* Alphonse Vézina (1924)
* Francis Simard (1925)
* Roméo Castonguay (1927)
* Albéric Trempe (1927–1933)
* Alfred Goulet (1933–1937)
* William Abel (1937–1939)
* Sylva St-Amant (1939–1945)
* Émile Garneau (1945–1957, 1963–1965, 1969–1972)
* Raoul Roy (1957–1959)
* Roger Langlois (1959–1963)
* Irenée Lizotte (1965–1969)
* Gaston Labbée (1972–1975)
* Roger Fairfield (1975–1981)
* Jacqueline Goulet (1981–1985)
* Marcel Vaillancourt (1985–1997)
* Michel Lahaie (1997–2005)
* Carol Nolet (2005–2021)
* Guylaine Labbée (2021–present)
]
References
External links
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Municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Abitibi-Témiscamingue