La Durantaye, Quebec
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La Durantaye is a parish municipality in the Bellechasse Regional County Municipality in the
Chaudière-Appalaches Chaudière-Appalaches (, ) is an administrative region in Quebec, Canada. It comprises most of what is historically known as the " Beauce" (; compare with the electoral district of Beauce). It is named for the Chaudière River and the Appalachia ...
administrative region of
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. The municipality had a population of 782 in the
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.


History

The municipality, along with
Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse () is a municipality of about 1,800 people about 20 km east of Lévis, in Bellechasse Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada Canada is a country in North A ...
and Saint-Vallier, is located on the territory of the former
fief A fief (; ) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law. It consisted of a form of property holding or other rights granted by an overlord to a vassal, who held it in fealty or "in fee" in return for a form of feudal alle ...
of La Durantaye, granted in 1672 by
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Frontenac to Olivier Morel de La Durantaye, then captain of the
Carignan-Salières Regiment The Carignan-Salières Regiment was a 17th-century French military unit formed by the merging of two other regiments in 1659. Approximately 1,100 men from the regiment were sent to New France in 1665 to deal with the threat of the Iroquois to the ...
.https://memoireduquebec.com/wiki/index.php?title=La_Durantaye_%28municipalit%C3%A9_de_paroisse%29 The municipality was officially created in 1913 under the name of Saint-Gabriel-Archange. Three years later, the name was changed to La Durantaye.


Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by
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, La Durantaye 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.


References



Parish municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Chaudière-Appalaches {{ChaudièreAppalaches-geo-stub