Price is a village municipality in

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 throu ...

in the

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region of

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. Its population in the

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was 1,729. The city of

Mont-Joli Mont-Joli () is a city in the La Mitis Regional County Municipality within the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. It is the county seat. The city is located east of Rimouski near the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River. History ...

provides the services necessary for the whole region.

History

It was the arrival of the Price Brothers and Company (of William Evan Price) that the village of Price was founded at the end of the 19th century. It was a suburb of Saint-Octave-de-Métis, which constituted a community of workers, who were employed at the saw mill. The parish of (Saint-Rémi-de-Métis) was detached from Saint-Octave-de-Métis in 1909. In 1916, the parish was erected. Ten years later, in 1926, the municipality was founded under the name Priceville. The name was modified in 1945 to avoid confusion with the village of Princeville in the Bois-Francs region of Quebec. A hydroelectric dam (Mitis I) was the first in the

region after its construction in 1923, providing electricity to the Gaspésie region.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Price 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.

Economy

The economic vitality of the community has always centred on the

pulp and paper industry The pulp and paper industry comprises companies that use wood as raw material and produce pulp, paper, paperboard and other cellulose-based products. Manufacturing process The pulp is fed to a paper machine where it is formed as a paper web ...

. Since 1888, the saw mills have flourished on in Price. Today, two industries are still present in the area, even though there is an economic crisis in the forest industry. ''Bois d'oeuvre Cedrico'' and ''le Groupe Lebel'', are the two compagnies involved.

Noted natives

Jean Lapointe Jean Lapointe, (December 6, 1935 – November 18, 2022) was a Canadian actor, comedian and singer as well as a Canadian Senator. Lapointe began his stage career as part of the duo '' Les Jérolas'' with Jérôme Lemay, performing in such ve ...

(author-composer-interpreter, actor and Canadian Senator)

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