Saint-Pacôme () is a

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in the

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, located in the

Kamouraska Regional County Municipality Kamouraska () is a regional county municipality in eastern Quebec, Canada. The regional county municipality seat is Saint-Pascal, but the largest town is La Pocatière. The area is an important research, development and education centre for agri ...

. Saint-Pacome Catholic Church is located in the town.

Demographics

In the

2021 Census of Population The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...

conducted by

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, Saint-Pacôme had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, an increase 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 * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

census

Government

Governing body

* Mayor: Louise Chamberland * Councillors: Cédric Valois-Mercier, Jennifer Ouellet, Virginie St-Pierre-Gagné, Annick D'Amours, Benoît Harton, Chantal Boily

Political representation

Saint-Pacôme forms part of the federal electoral district of Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup and has been represented by

Bernard Généreux Bernard Généreux (; born April 23, 1962) is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup in the House of Commons in the federal by-elections on November 9, 2009. He is ...

of the Conservative Party since 2015. Provincially, Saint-Pacôme is part of the Côte-du-Sud electoral district and is represented by Mathieu Rivest of the

Coalition Avenir Québec The Coalition Avenir Québec (, , CAQ) is a Quebec nationalism, Quebec nationalist, Autonomism in Quebec, autonomist and conservatism, conservative

since 2022.

References

External links

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Municipalité de Saint-Pacôme
Former designated places in Quebec Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Bas-Saint-Laurent Long stubs with short prose {{BasSaintLaurent-geo-stub