Kipawa is a village and

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in western

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, in the

Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality Témiscamingue () is a regional county municipality in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of western Quebec, Canada. The county seat is Ville-Marie. Though Témiscamingue borders Pontiac Regional County Municipality to the south, it is not prac ...

. It is located at the south end of Lake Kipawa, adjacent to the

Kebaowek Kebaowek or Eagle Village First Nation - Kipawa Indian Reserve, is a First Nations reserve in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in C ...

Reserve. In addition to the community of Kipawa itself located on the namesake lake, the municipality also includes the community of Tee Lake (originally called Gendreau at the end of the 19th century), and surrounds the Indian Reserve of

. Kipawa is a variant of the Algonquin word ''Kebaowek'' which means "closed water", referring to the many closed-off bays and passages of Lake Kipawa. Another theory claims that it means "getting off" or "disembarkation", or the location where one can pick up supplies or trade. Its main employer is the Commonwealth Plywood Company.

History

The land including and surrounding Lake Kipawa and Kipawa Village has been inhabited for centuries by the

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. The first

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to come into the Kipawa basin were

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and

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. The area was logged in the second half of the 19th century, and the railroad was built in the 1880s, with its stations known as Kipawa Station et Kipawa Junction. On January 1, 1985, the Municipality of Kipawa was created out of previously unincorporated area.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Kipawa 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: 42.7% * French as first language: 52.8% * English and French as first language: 3.4% * Other as first language: 1.1%

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* * Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Abitibi-Témiscamingue Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality {{AbitibiTémiscamingue-geo-stub

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