Saint-Donat () is a
parish 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 through ...
in the
Bas-Saint-Laurent region of
Quebec
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, Canada. Its population in the
Canada 2021 Census
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was 835.
History
Saint-Donat was originally a sector of
Sainte-Luce. Saint-Donat split from Sainte-Luce in 1869 to became the parish municipality of Saint-Donat. The original economic vocation of Saint-Donat was based almost entirely on forestry, as evidenced by the many remnants of the sawmills that once dotted the area. Later, like many other towns in the region, agriculture became the main activity.
Writer Rejean Pigeon is from the area and one of his novel is set in Saint-Donat.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Saint-Donat 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
Population trend:
[Statistics Canada: ]1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
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, 2001
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, 2011
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census
Language
Mother tongue language (2021)
[2021 Statistics Canada Community Profile: Saint-Donat, Quebec](_blank)
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See also
* List of parish municipalities in Quebec
This is a list of municipalities that have the Quebec municipal type of parish municipality (''paroisse'', code=P), an administrative division defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy.
The ''Commission de topony ...
References
External links
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Parish municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Bas-Saint-Laurent
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