Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset is a
parish municipality in the
Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality in the
Chaudière-Appalaches region of
Quebec
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The municipality is named after
Hilary of Poitiers and the county of
Dorset
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History
Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset was officially created on March 28th 1946. Thirty years after the creation of the religious parish.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset 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.
References
Commission de toponymie du Québec
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Incorporated places in Chaudière-Appalaches
Parish municipalities in Quebec