Forestville () is a town in the
Côte-Nord
Côte-Nord (Region 09) (, ; ) is an List of regions of Quebec, administrative region of Quebec, on the Quebec-Labrador peninsula, Quebec-Labrador Peninsula, Canada.
The region runs along the St. Lawrence River and then the Gulf of St. Lawrence, ...
region of
Quebec
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,
Canada
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. It is located on the north shore of the
St. Lawrence River
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along
Route 138, approximately southwest of
Baie-Comeau
Baie-Comeau () is a city in the Côte-Nord region of the province of Quebec, Canada. It is located on the shores of the St. Lawrence River, and is the seat of Manicouagan Regional County Municipality. It is near the mouth of the Manicouagan Ri ...
. There is a vehicle and passenger
ferry
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service from Forestville to
Rimouski
Rimouski ( ; ) is a city in Quebec, Canada. Rimouski is located in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region, at the mouth of the Rimouski River. It has a population of 48,935 (as of 2021). Rimouski, whose motto is ''Legi patrum fidelis'' (Faithful to ...
, on the south shore of the St. Lawrence that is over wide at this point.
The city operates the
Forestville Airport.
Forestville is known for its hunting and fishing. Moose
hunting season is popular. There are many lakes and rivers to fish, as well as beaches and camping spots for the summer, and cross country skiing in the winter. It hosts the
Boreal Loppet, a cross-country skiing race with varying distances including . It also hosted the longest cross-country ski race in the world, at , from 2005 to 2011.
History
The area was well known to the First Nations, while the first European settlers arrived in 1844 following the construction of a sawmill by Edward Selvin, of
Les Éboulements. In 1849, the mill was sold to William Price. One of the superintendents of the Price Company was Grant William Forrest (died November 15, 1878), after whom the new settlement was named. As written by Surveyor P.H. Dumais in 1873, the little village, "with its chapel and its windmills", was originally spelled Forrest-Ville, but the English version of his text showed the spelling Forestville. Being at the mouth of the Sault aux Cochons River, the place was also alternatively known as Sault-au-Cochon.
The Price Company owned large tracts of land in the area and prospered between 1870 and 1885, but went into decline about 1885, leading to the mill's closure in 1890. In 1937, the Forestville Post Office opened. That same year the forest industry was revitalized when the Anglo-Canadian Pulp & Paper Mills Company built a new mill, and in 1942, built the ''Arboriduc''
log flume that carried logs for several kilometers to the port at the mouth of the Sault aux Cochons River. Subsequently, the Town of Forestville and the Municipality of Saint-Luc-de-Laval were established in 1944 and in 1950 respectively.
In 1980, Forestville and Saint-Luc-de-Laval were merged to form the new Town of Forestville.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Forestville 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.
Mother tongue (2021):
* English as first language: 0.2%
* French as first language: 99.3%
* English and French as first language: 0.2%
* Other as first language: 0.5%
Climate
Forestville has a humid continental climate (''Dfb'' under the
Köppen climate classification
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).
[ Summers are mild to warm and rainy with cool nights. Winters are long, frigid, and extremely snowy.
]
See also
* List of cities in Quebec
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References
External links
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*http://www.borealloppet.ca/
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Cities and towns in Quebec
Incorporated places in Côte-Nord
La Haute-Côte-Nord Regional County Municipality