Lochaber is a

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in the

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, located within the

Papineau Regional County Municipality Papineau () is a regional county municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Papineauville. Subdivisions There are 25 subdivisions within the RCM: Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics ...

. The township had a population of 415 in the

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History

In 1807, a group of Scots settled in the southern part of the Blanche River valley, the same year the geographic township of Lochaber Gore was created. They came from

Thurso Thurso (pronounced ; , ) is a town and former burgh on the north coast of the Highland council area of Scotland. Situated in the historical County of Caithness, it is the northernmost town on the island of Great Britain. From a latitudinal s ...

in Scotland, as well as from the Highlands, near

Lochaber Lochaber ( ; ) is a name applied to a part of the Scottish Highlands. Historically, it was a provincial lordship consisting of the parishes of Kilmallie and Kilmonivaig. Lochaber once extended from the Northern shore of Loch Leven, a distric ...

and other parts of northern Scotland. In 1845, the township municipality was formed but abolished in September 1847 when it became part of Ottawa County. In 1855, it was reestablished. In 1886, the village municipality of Thurso separated from the township, and in 1891, the western half the township was split off to form the township municipality of Lochaber-Partie-Ouest.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Lochaber 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: * English as first language: 7.2% * French as first language: 89.2% * English and French as first language: 0% * Other as first language: 2.4%

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{{authority control Township municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Outaouais