Roquemaure is a
municipality
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in northwestern
Quebec
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,
Canada
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in the
MRC d'Abitibi-Ouest. It covers 120.02 km
2 and had a population of 409 as of the
Canada 2021 Census
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.
The municipality was incorporated on January 1, 1952.
Demographics
Population trend:
[Statistics Canada: ]1996
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, 2001
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, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2021
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census
* Population in 2021: 409 (2016 to 2021 population change: 3.5%)
* Population in 2016: 395
* Population in 2011: 414
* Population in 2006: 402
* Population in 2001: 451
* Population in 1996: 459
* Population in 1991: 455
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 185 (total dwellings: 215)
Mother tongue:
* English as first language: 0%
* French as first language: 100%
* English and French as first language: 0%
* Other as first language: 0%
Municipal council
* Mayor: Rachel Alarie
* Councillors: Chantal Mainville, Josée Chrétien, Mathieu Guillemette, Sébastien Roy
References
Municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Populated places established in 1933
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