Pierreville () is a municipality in

Nicolet-Yamaska Regional County Municipality Nicolet-Yamaska () is a regional county municipality in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, Canada. The county seat is Nicolet. Subdivisions There are 16 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (1) * Nicolet ;Municipalities (11) ...

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, located at the confluence of the

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and Saint-François rivers, at the edge of

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. The population as of the

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was 2,176. Pierreville faces the town of Saint-François-du-Lac across the Saint-François river, and lies at the junction of Route 132 and Route 226. Part of the

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is an enclave within the city limits of Pierreville. The limits of the reserve begin only a short walk away from the town's main street.

History

On 21 August 1991, an F3 tornado, the ''"tornade de Maskinongé"'', touched down in Notre-Dame-de-Pierreville (today part of Pierreville), destroying a number of summer homes in the area and injuring 15 people. On June 13, 2001, the parish municipalities of Notre-Dame-de-Pierreville and Saint-Thomas-de-Pierreville merged with the village municipality of Pierreville to form the new municipality of Pierreville.

Economy

Manufacturing

Pierreville is a major centre for the manufacture of fire trucks. Local builder Pierre Thibault Canada Ltee. built fire apparatus in Pierreville from 1938 to 1990. In 1968, members of the Thibault family established a competing business, Pierreville Fire Trucks, across the river in Saint-François-du-Lac. It operated until 1985. Levasseur Fire Trucks also built fire apparatus in Saint-François-du-Lac from 1988 to 2014. Today, Carl Thibault Fire Trucks operates in the former Pierre Thibault facility in Pierreville. During the visit of

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to Canada in 1984, Pierre Thibault modified a GMC Sierra truck for use as a

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, a secure form of transport built to withstand a commando attack. It was subsequently used for the 1998 papal visit to

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and was displayed at the Canada Museum of Science and Technology in 2005. The second truck was sent back to the Vatican in 1984.

Agriculture

Like the rest of the Centre-du-Quebec region, agriculture plays an important role in Pierreville's economy, with a number of

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, vegetable, grain and other farms based in the area.

Demographics

Population

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 ...

census (+) Amalgamation of the Parishes of Notre-Dame-de-Pierreville, Saint-Thomas-de-Pierreville, and the Village of Pierreville on June 13, 2001.

Language

Mother tongue language (2006)

Climate

References

External links

* {{authority control Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Centre-du-Québec Quebec populated places on the Saint Lawrence River Nicolet-Yamaska Regional County Municipality