Métis-sur-Mer (, ) is a city in the
La Mitis Regional County Municipality
La Mitis is a regional county municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region in eastern Quebec, Canada on the Gaspé peninsula. It is named for the Mitis River (''The Mitis'') which has its source in the region (at Lac Inférieur) and flows through ...
within the
Bas-Saint-Laurent region of
Quebec
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, Canada. It had a population of 594 in the
Canada 2021 Census
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.
The name "Métis" is said to come from a
Mi'kmaq word meaning "meeting place"; "sur-mer" refers to its location on the
Saint Lawrence River
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.
History
From 1818,
John MacNider, the Scottish
Seigneur of Métis started settling the area with
Scottish immigrants.
The city has a borough named MacNider, named after MacNider's family. Its territory corresponds to the former (pre-merger) village municipality of Métis-sur-Mer (Metis Beach).
The town was a popular summer vacation spot for wealthy anglophone Montrealers. At the end of the 19th century, they spent their time in Métis-sur-Mer to flee waves of cholera. At the beginning of the 20th century, they did so again to escape outbreaks of the Spanish flu.
On July 4, 2002, the village of Métis-sur-Mer and the municipality of Les Boules merged to form the city of Métis-sur-Mer.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Métis-sur-Mer 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.
Population
Population trend:
[Statistics Canada: 2006, ]2011
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, 2016
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, 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
See also
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List of anglophone communities in Quebec
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List of cities in Quebec
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References
External links
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Metis-sur-Mer
Incorporated places in Bas-Saint-Laurent