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Estérel is a
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city
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in Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality in the Laurentides
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region of Quebec, Canada. The municipal territory almost entirely extends around Lake Masson, whereas the village itself is situated on the eastern shore of this lake.
History
The area of Estérel was first part of the Parish Municipality ofSainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson
Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson is a city in Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada. It is partially named after and situated on the western shore of Lake Masson.
History
In the early 1860s, ...
, which formed in the early 1860s.
Around 1920, Baron Louis Empain
Baron Louis Empain, originally Louis Becker (1908—1976) was a Belgian financier.
Louis was born in Brussels on 3 January 1908, the youngest son of Édouard Empain, by his mistress Jeanne Becker, a musician. When his mother became Empain's wife ...
, son of Belgian industrialist Baron Édouard Empain
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, acquired substantially all the land around Lake Masson intending to build a resort called Estérel, named after the Esterel massif in Provence, south-east France. In 1939, the Estérel Post Office opened.
In 1958, Fridolin Simard, an industrialist from Abitibi, bought over 2000 hectares of the baron's estate and completed the holiday resort. A year later in 1959, The Town of Estérel was formed when it separated from Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson.
On October 10, 2001, the Town of Estérel and the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson were merged to become the Town of Sainte-Marguerite–Estérel. On January 1, 2006, after a municipal referendum, the Town of Estérel was however re-established and the Town of Sainte-Marguerite–Estérel was renamed to its former name of Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population
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conducted by Statistics Canada, Estérel 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.
Population trend:
* Population in 2021: 262 (2016 to 2021 population change: 33.7%)
* Population in 2016: 196
* Population in 2011: 199
* Population in 2006: 256
** 2001 to 2006 population change: 41.4%
* Population in 2001: 181
* Population in 1996: 108
* Population in 1991: 119
Mother tongue:
* English as first language: 17%
* French as first language: 75.5%
* English and French as first language: 3.8%
* Other as first language: 5.7%
Education
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 English-language public schools:
* Saint Adèle Elementary School in Saint-Adèle"
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 ...
. Retrieved on September 16, 2017.
See also
*List of cities in Quebec
This is the list of municipalities that have the Quebec municipality type of city (''ville'', code=V), an administrative division defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy.
Note that although the terms "city" and ...
References
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Esterel, Quebec Incorporated places in Laurentides Cities and towns in Quebec