Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn, Quebec
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Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn, known locally as Woburn, is a parish municipality in Le Granit Regional County Municipality in the
Estrie Estrie () is an List of Quebec regions, administrative region of Quebec that comprises the Eastern Townships. ''Estrie'', a French neologism, was coined as a derivative of ''est'', "east". Originally settled by anglophones, today it is about 90 pe ...
region of Quebec, Canada. The population is 695 as of the
Canada 2011 Census The 2011 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population on May 10, 2011. Statistics Canada, an agency of the Canadian government, conducts a nationwide census every five years. In 2011, it consisted of a mandatory short for ...
. A parish municipality is the territory of a
parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...
established as a municipality. Settlement began around 1880. It is the site of Coburn Gore–Woburn Border Crossing along the
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. Mount Gosford lies entirely within the parish, making Woburn one of the highest towns in Quebec, at an altitude of .


Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by
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, Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn 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.


See also

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Classification of municipalities in Quebec The following is a list of the types of local and supralocal territorial units in Quebec, Canada, including those used solely for statistical purposes, as defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy and compiled by t ...


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint-Augustin-De-Woburn, Quebec Parish municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Estrie Le Granit Regional County Municipality