Lac-Bouchette () is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

Quebec Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...

, Canada. The town is located on the eastern shore of the eponymous Bouchette Lake, along

Quebec Route 155 Route 155 is a north/south highway on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. Its northern terminus is in Chambord at the junction of Route 169, and the southern terminus is the Piles Bridge in Shawinigan. Previously ...

and the

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. In addition to Lac-Bouchette itself, the municipality also includes the population centres of Lac-des-Commissaires and Lizote. The municipality and lake were named in honour of Surveyor General of Lower Canada

Joseph Bouchette Lt.-Colonel Joseph Bouchette (; May 14, 1774 – April 8, 1841) was the Canadian Surveyor-General of British North America. His book, ''Topographical Description of the Province of Lower Canada'' was published at London in 1815 and also translated ...

(1774-1841).

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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 ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

census * Population in 2021: 1,183 (2016 to 2021 population change: -1.1%) * Population in 2016: 1,196 * Population in 2011: 1,174 * Population in 2006: 1,311 * Population in 2001: 1,370 * Population in 1996: 1,445 * Population in 1991: 1,485 * Population in 1986: 1,654 * Population in 1981: 1,703 * Population in 1976: 1,685 Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 641 (total dwellings: 956) Mother tongue: * English as first language: 0.4% * French as first language: 98.7% * English and French as first language: 0% * Other as first language: 0.4%

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* {{authority control Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean