La Doré (; known as Notre-Dame-de-la-Doré before 1983) is a parish municipality in

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Le Domaine-du-Roy Le Domaine-du-Roy (, ) is a regional county municipality in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is in Roberval, Quebec, Roberval, and it is named for the King of France, who owned the land at the time of the colonization ...

and the administrative region of

Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean (, ) is a region in Quebec, Canada on the Labrador Peninsula. It contains the Saguenay Fjord, the estuary of the Saguenay River, stretching through much of the region. It is also known as Sagamie in French, from the fi ...

. It is located along the banks of the Sauger River (''Rivière au Doré''), between the Ashuapmushuan River and the

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to the south, in the geographic township of Dufferin.

History

In 1882, the Mission of Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation-de-la-Doré was established. The village got its real start in 1889 when settlers from Saint-Méthode, Saint-Félicien, Saint-Prime, and Lambton settled there and founded the Colony of Rivière-au-Doré. In 1891, it was for a large part destroyed by fire, but was rebuilt due to the courage and determination of the pioneers. The next year the Rivière-au-Doré Post Office opened. In 1904, the mission gained the status of parish, and two years later in 1906, it was incorporated as the Parish Municipality of Saint-Félicien-Partie-Nord-Ouest. In 1915, it changed its name to Notre-Dame-de-la-Doré, and in 1983, it was changed again to the abbreviated form La Doré, because of its widespread common use.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, La Doré 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:Statistics Canada:

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

census * Population in 2011: 1453 (2006 to 2011 population change: -0.1%) * Population in 2006: 1454 * Population in 2001: 1553 * Population in 1996: 1624 * Population in 1991: 1668 Mother tongue: * English as first language: 0% * French as first language: 100% * English and French as first language: 0% * Other as first language: 0%

Festivals

La Doré holds an annual truck festival, the ''Festival des camionneurs de La Doré'', which took place for the first time in the summer of 1981. In 1991, the festival organizers decided to establish a snowmobile festival in January, the ''Rally des Loups de La Doré'', which is now a snow-cross competition sanctioned by the SCM.

Sawmill

The municipality also includes one of the oldest water-powered sawmills still operating in Quebec. The ''Moulin des Pionniers'', from circa 1904, is a major tourist attraction and historic site for the village and region.

References

External links

Municipalité de La Doré

Moulin des Pionniers

festival des camionneurs
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