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Massueville is a
village municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the gov ...
in
Pierre-De Saurel Regional County Municipality Pierre-De Saurel () is a regional county municipality in the Montérégie region in southwestern Quebec, Canada. Originally named Le Bas-Richelieu Regional County Municipality, the name change to Pierre-De Saurel took effect on January 1, 2009. I ...
,
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 population as of the
2021 Canadian census The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canada, Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, whic ...
was 547. It is named after Gaspard-Aimé Massue, landowner (1812–1875). The village is an enclave within the Municipality of Saint-Aimé. It lies along the banks of the
Yamaska River The Yamaska River (, ) is a Drainage basin, river in southern Quebec, Canada. Sourcing water within the Eastern Townships, it ends its journey in Lake Saint Pierre, Lake Saint-Pierre where it is a tributary to the Saint Lawrence River; altoget ...
. The core of the town is composed of several well kept heritage houses.


History

In 1835, Gaspard-Aimé Massue, lord of the Bonsecours
Seignory In English law, seignory or seigniory, spelled ''signiory'' in Early Modern English (; ; ), is the lordship (authority) remaining to a grantor after the grant of an estate in fee simple. '' Nulle terre sans seigneur'' ("No land without a lord") ...
, donated land to the parish on which first a chapel was built that same year, followed by the church in 1841, and the original presbytery around 1850. In 1903, the village was incorporated when it separated from the Parish Municipality of Saint-Aimé. Massueville had a big fire near the church in an abandoned convent on 27 October 2006.


Demographics

In the
2021 Census of Population The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
conducted by
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, Massueville 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 language (2021): * English as first language: 0.9 % * French as first language: 97.3 % * Both English and French as first language: 0 % * Other as first language: 0.9 %


Local government

List of former mayors: * Prospère P. Lanoie (1903–1904) * Paul Dufault (1904–1906) * Joseph Archambault (1906–1907) * Joseph Ledoux (1907–1908) * Delphis Sylvestre (1908–1909, 1923–1927, 1935–1939) * Louis Archambault (1909–1912, 1917–1921) * Joseph Beauregard (1912–1913) * Michel St-Germain (1913–1914) * George Laferté (1914–1917) * George Ed. Hébert (1921–1923) * Paul Boisvert (1927–1929, 1933–1935) * Frédéric J. Normand (1929–1933) * Albert Bélanger (1939–1947) * Michel Proulx (1947–1948) * Arthur Lanoie (1948–1951) * Léonard Parent (1951–1957) * Maurice Mathieu (1957–1959) * Jean-Jacques Falardeau (1959–1969) * Wildor Hébert (1969–1971, 1977–1993) * Robert Niquette (1971–1977) * Pierre Michaud (1993–2005) * Denis Marion (2005–2021) * Richard Gauthier (2021–present)


See also

*
List of village municipalities in Quebec This is the list of communities in Quebec that have the legal status of village municipalities (''village'', code=VL) as defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy. This does not include Cree villages (code=VC), N ...
*
Aignan-Aimé Massue Aignan-Aimé Massue (October 1781 – February 1, 1866) was a seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Surrey in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1824 to 1827 as a supporter of the Parti patriote. He was b ...
(1781–1866), father of Gaspard-Aimé Massue *
Joseph-Aimé Massue Joseph-Aimé Massue (October 18, 1860 – April 10, 1891) was a seigneur and political figure in Quebec. He represented Richelieu in the House of Commons of Canada from 1887 to 1891 as a Conservative member. Biography He was born Marie-J ...
(1860–1891), son of Gaspard-Aimé Massue


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External links

* {{Authority control Villages in Quebec Incorporated places in Pierre-De Saurel Regional County Municipality