Hope is a
township municipality in the
Canadian province
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of
Quebec
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, located within the
Bonaventure Regional County Municipality. Its population was 584 in the
2021 Canadian census
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.
The only population centres within the township are Saint-Jogues (
) and Saint-Jogues-Sud (
).
History
The township was surveyed circa 1786, and named in honour of British Colonel
Henry Hope
Henry Hope (1735–1811) was an Amsterdam merchant banker born in Braintree, Province of Massachusetts Bay. He emigrated to the Netherlands to join the family business, the Dutch bank Hope & Co., at a young age. From 1779, Henry became the man ...
(c. 1746 – 1789), lieutenant-governor of Quebec from 1785 to 1789. At that time, the township also included the territory of
Hope Town,
Paspébiac, and
Saint-Godefroi.
In 1913, Saint-Godefroi split off, and in 1936, Hope Town became a separate incorporated municipality.
The community of Saint-Jogues was formed in 1930 when 52 settlers were encouraged to colonize Gaspésie's interior during the
Great Depression
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. By 1937, there were 300 residents in this village.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Hope 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: 14.7%
* French as first language: 83.6%
* English and French as first language: 1.7%
* Other as first language: 0.0%
See also
*
List of anglophone communities in Quebec
This is a list of anglophone communities in the Canadian province of Quebec. Municipalities with a high percentage of English-speakers in Quebec are listed.
The provincial average of Quebecers whose mother tongue is English is 7.6%, with a tot ...
*
List of township municipalities in Quebec
This is a list of municipalities that have the Quebec municipal type township municipality, an administrative division defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy.
Township municipalities
(area is in km², populati ...
References
External links
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Township municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine