Melbourne is a

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located in

Le Val-Saint-François Regional County Municipality Le Val-Saint-François () is a regional county municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Richmond. Subdivisions There are 18 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (3) * Richmond * Valcourt * Windsor ;Municipal ...

in the

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region of

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, Canada. The name Melbourne comes from the name of an English town in

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and

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History

The village was founded by Irish immigrants from

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after the famine in Ireland. These settlers, who arrived around 1860, decided to try their luck here, because these lands were still available, accessible, open and cultivable. The municipality was officially created in 1855 but has since lost parts of its territory. First in 1860 when the village section of Melbourne (now merged with

Richmond Richmond most often refers to: * Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada * Richmond, California, a city in the United States * Richmond, London, a town in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England * Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town ...

) became its own entity. In 1889, New Rockland separated (it has since been merged with Kingsbury). In 1896,

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separated also. Finally, in 1920, Brompton Gore (now part of Racine) separated.

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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, Melbourne 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 (2021) Upper Melbourne 1910

Notable people

Marie-Claire Blais Marie-Claire Blais (5 October 1939 – 30 November 2021) was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Quebec. In a career spanning seventy years, she wrote novels, plays, collections of poetry and fiction, newspa ...

(1939–2021), writer and novelist * William Hoste Webb (1820 – 1890) lawyer and political figure

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Municipality of Township of Melbourne
(in English) Incorporated places in Estrie Township municipalities in Quebec {{Estrie-geo-stub

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