Saint-Ours is a city located in the
Pierre-De Saurel Regional County Municipality of
Québec
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(
Canada
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), in the administrative region of
Montérégie
Montérégie () is an administrative region in the southwest part of Quebec. It includes the cities of Boucherville, Brossard, Châteauguay, Longueuil, Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield and Vaudreuil-Dorion. ...
. The population as of the
Canada 2011 Census was 1,721. Founded in 1650 and originally constituent of the Saint-Ours Parish Municipality, which merged alongside L'Immaculée-Conception-de-Saint-Ours municipality in 1991, Saint-Ours is one of the earliest settlements in Montérégie.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada, Saint-Ours 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:
[Statistics Canada: ]1996
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, 2001
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, 2006, 2011 census
Mother tongue language (2006)
[2006 Statistics Canada Community Profile: Saint-Ours, Quebec](_blank)
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See also
*List of cities in Quebec
This is the list of municipalities that have the Quebec municipality type of city (''ville'', code=V), an administrative division defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy.
Note that although the terms "city" and ...
References
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Cities and towns in Quebec
Incorporated places in Pierre-De Saurel Regional County Municipality
Designated places in Quebec