Saint-Rémi () is a city in the province of

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. Located on the south-shore of the

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and the

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, Saint-Rémi is part of

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, in the

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administrative region. The population as of the 2021 Canada Census was 8 957.

Toponymy

The territory was known as Saint-Rémi early into European settlement. It is thought that the name was chosen to honor Daniel de Rémy de Courcelle, Governor General of New France from 1665 to 1672, but this fact is still in doubt today.

History

At the start of the 19th century, Lord Christophe Sanguinet experienced legal disputes with the British colonial administration and after two trials in 1805 and 1807, the territory of the Lordship of La Salle was reduced by 20% of its area, the most developed by being removed. He and his successors, his son Ambroise Sanguinet and his grandsons Christophe-Ambroise and Charles-Amable Sanguinet tried to recover this part of the territory while interceding so that the hundreds of threatened censitaires were not expelled from their lands. Christophe-Ambroise and Charles-Amable Sanguinet took up the cause of the

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and were hanged in 1839. Saint-Rémi is located in the former seigneury of La Salle and on the former township of Huntigndon. The origin of the name Saint-Rémi comes from

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, bishop of Reims, who baptized the king of the Salian Franks

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in 496. It was in 1815 that the first pioneer, Alexis Perras, arrived. On 1 July 1845, the parish municipality of Saint-Rémi was officially created. Two years later in 1847, it was merged into the newly created Huntingdon County, but this county was dissolved on July 1, 1855, and the parish municipality was reestablished. On 23 October 1859, the village of Saint-Rémi was formed by detachment from the parish of the same name. On November 19, 1946, it changed statutes to become a ''ville'' (city). In 1975, the municipal councils of the city of Saint-Rémi and the parish of the same name adopted a by-law authorizing the granting of letters patent to merge the two municipalities into one City of Saint-Rémi. In 2000, following the death and state funeral of Pierre Trudeau, the 15th

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and father of 23rd Prime Minister

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, his body was entombed in a family mausoleum located at the city's main cemetery ( St-Rémi-de-Napierville Cemetery). The federal government has marked his resting place with an official plaque as part of a program commemorating deceased prime ministers.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Saint-Rémi 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.

Government

List of former mayors: * André Adolphe Dugast (1859–1862) * Josephe Hugues Martin (1862–1864) * Pierre Avila Hogleman (1864–1870, 1877–1879, 1880–1882) * Antoine Goyer (1870–1872) * Célestin Eméré Bonneville (1872–1875, 1879–1880) * Joseph Chéri Fifre (1875–1877, 1883–1884) * Louis Sainte Marie (1882–1883) * Laurent Hébert (1884–1885) * Alexis Bisaillon (1885–1887) * Célestin Chéri Benoit (1887–1888, 1898–1900) * André Hébert (1888–1891) * Julien Longtin (1891–1894) * Camille Lamare (1894–1896) * Joseph Adolphe Poirier (1896–1897) * Jean Baptiste Blain (1897–1898) * Hugues Alexandre Harkin (1900–1901) * Joseph Emile Phidime Thérien (1901–1903, 1904–1907) * Joseph Trudeau (1903–1904, 1925–1926) * Pierre Bariteau (1907–1908) * Joseph Théodore Giguère (1908–1909) * Pierre Gagnon (1909–1910) * Charles Laporte (1910–1911) * Flavien Auguste Boucher (1911–1912) * Aimé Bédard (1912–1913, 1914–1919) * Joseph Alfred Huberdeault (1913–1914) * Alexis-Armand-Florian Lamarre (1919–1921) * Joseph Hilaire Camille Lamare (1921–1925) * Pierre-André Hébert (1926–1929, 1931–1933) * Joseph-Alexandre Viau (1929–1931, 1933–1942) * Joseph Napoléon Lazure (1942–1949) * Louis Joseph Lazure (1949–1952) * Joseph François Xavié Myre (1952–1958) * Joseph Maurice Lemieux (1958–1962) * Joseph Elphège Maurice Marotte (1962–1964) * Jean Paul Bernard Ferdais (1964–1969) * Joseph Gustave Romain Lussier (1969–1975, 1976) * Joseph Alexandre Claude Dubois (1975–1976) * Joseph Victor Rosaire Denault (1976–1980) * Joseph Henri Maurice Wolfe (1980–1988) * Charles Edouard Jean Vergé (1988–1992) * Michel Lavoie (1992–2000, 2005–2013) * Yves Provençal (2000–2005) * Sylvie Gagnon-Breton (2013–present)

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