Richelieu () is a city in
Rouville Regional County Municipality
The term regional county municipality or RCM (, , MRC) is used in Quebec, Canada to refer to one of 87 county-like political entities. In some older English translations they were called county regional municipality.
Regional county municipalit ...
, in the province of
Quebec
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,
Canada
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. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 5,742. Its name comes from the fact that it lies along the
Richelieu River
The Richelieu River () is a river of Quebec, Canada, and a major right-bank tributary of the St. Lawrence River. It rises at Lake Champlain, from which it flows northward through Quebec and empties into the St. Lawrence. It was formerly kno ...
.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Richelieu 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 trend:
Richelieu amalgamated with Municipality of Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours on March 15, 2000.
Mother tongue language (2021)
[2021 Statistics Canada Community Profile: Richelieu, Quebec](_blank)
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Infrastructure
The CIT Chambly-Richelieu-Carignan provides commuter and local bus services.
Education
The South Shore Protestant Regional School Board
The South Shore Protestant Regional School Board (SSPRSB) was a Protestant Christian school district in Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It served the South Shore region and it was headquartered in St. Lambert.
The district operated elementary ...
previously served the municipality.[King, M.J. (Chairperson of the board).]
South Shore Protestant Regional School Board
(St. Johns, PQ). ''The News and Eastern Townships Advocate
The ''News and Eastern Townships Advocate'' is a newspaper based in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu () is a city in eastern Montérégie in the Canadian province of Quebec, about southeast of Montreal, located roughly halfwa ...
''. Volume 119, No. 5. Thursday December 16, 1965. p. 2. Retrieved from Google News
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on November 23, 2014.
See also
*List of cities in Quebec
This is the list of municipalities that have the Classification of municipalities in Quebec, Quebec municipality type of city (Quebec), city (''ville'', code=V), an Administrative divisions of Quebec, administrative division defined by the Minist ...
*Municipal history of Quebec
The municipal history of Quebec started in 1796 with the creation of administrations for Montréal and Quebec City, but it really developed immediately prior to the creation of the Province of Canada in 1841 with the formation of municipal dist ...
References
External links
Richelieu official website
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Cities and towns in Quebec
Incorporated places in Rouville Regional County Municipality
Greater Montreal