Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs () is a municipality in the

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of Les Pays-d'en-Haut in

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, Canada, located in the administrative region of

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. The municipality was founded in 1946 and was assigned the municipal number 77035 by the

government. The Roman Catholic parish of Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs was founded in 1940.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs 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.

Public services

The

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for Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs is J0R 1B0. The municipality is served by a post office located inside a building supplies store and two rural routes. Telephone service is provided through a Bell Canada telephone exchange at Prévost. Police services are provided by the

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, Quebec's provincial police force, and were formerly provided by the Régie intermunicipale de police de la Rivière-du-Nord, which also served

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, Prévost and some other communities in the Laurentians. The Municipality has its own fire department. A new fire station building near the town hall was expected to be open in July 2015.

Politics

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: Catherine Hamé * Secretary-Treasurer: Christiane Côté. * Member of Parliament: :*

Tim Watchorn Tim Watchorn is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2025 federal election. He represents Les Pays-d'en-Haut as a member of the Liberal Party. Prior to his election he was the Mayor of Morin-Heights, Qu ...

( Liberal). * Member of the National Assembly of Quebec:

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Lac Marois Country Club

The Lac Marois Country Club, located on the shores of Lac Marois, is a members only club open from late June to the end of August. It was founded in 1903 for outdoor church services. Land was donated in 1910 and the Lac Marois Union Church was built. The Lac Marois Country Club came into being in 1929, as a means to fulfill more than spiritual needs, and requested the church grant them the right to build a clubhouse on church property. The Union Church owns the property and leases the land to the Interlake Youth Club, the parent company of the Lac Marois Country Club. At L.M.C.C. (Lac Marois Country Club), children can take lessons. Lessons include swimming (lessons and swimteam), tennis, sailing, canoeing, and junior club.

Education

Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board The Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board (SWLSB, , CSSWL) is a school board headquartered in Rosemère, Quebec in Greater Montreal. It officially came into existence in July 1998 when English-language schools from eight former school boards were amalg ...

operates Anglophone public schools: * Morin Heights Elementary School in

Morin-Heights Morin-Heights () is a town in the Laurentian Mountains region of Quebec, Canada. It is west of Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, Saint-Sauveur and north of Lachute; municipally, it is within the Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality, Regional Co ...

serves a portion of the town *

Laurentian Regional High School Laurentian Regional High School () is an English secondary school in Lachute in the region of Laurentides, Québec, Canada. It contains classes for grades seven through eleven, and is run by the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. It serves Lachute ...

Lachute Lachute () is a town in southwest Quebec, Canada, northwest of Montreal, on the Rivière du Nord (Laurentides), Rivière du Nord, a tributary of the Ottawa River, and west of Mirabel International Airport, the Mirabel International Airport. It i ...

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. Retrieved on September 4, 2017.

References

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Commission de la toponymie du Québec. Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs (Municipalité de paroisse)
Retrieved May 22, 2006. *
Statistics Canada

House of Commons, Canada

External links

Sainte-Anne-des-LacsBibliothèque de Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs - Réseau BIBLIO des Laurentides Tourisme Pays-d'en-Haut

Centre local de développement des Pays-d'en-Haut
*[http://www12.statcan.ca/english/Profil01/CP01/Details/Page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=2477035&Geo2=PR&Code2=24&Data=Count&SearchText=Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&GeoLevel=&GeoCode=2477035 Statistics Canada. 2002. 2001 Community profiles. Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs]
Comité des Citoyens de Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs
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