Sainte-Justine-de-Newton () is a municipality located in the

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region of

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, Canada. The population as of the

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was 947. The municipality is situated on Route 325 south of

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, just east of the

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border.

History

In 1805, the

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of Newton was created, likely named after

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in England. Sainte-Justine-de-Newton was also named after Justine de Padoue. In 1845, the Township Municipality of Newton was formed, but abolished in 1847. In 1855, it was reestablished as the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Justine-de-Newton, combining the names of the parish and the geographic township. In 1865, its post office opened. In 2008, the parish municipality changed its statutes to become a (regular) municipality.

Demographics

Language

Local government

List of former mayors: * Donald Morrisson (1845–1847, 1862–1868) * John Burke (1855–1860) * Murdock McCuaig (1860–1862, 1870) * Norman McCosham (1868–1870) * Alfrède Godard (1870–1876, 1881–1885, 1903) * François Xavier Legault (1876–1877, 1879–1880) * Honoré Sauvé (1877–1879, 1880–1881, 1886–1887) * Emmanuel Brunêt (1885–1886) * Joseph Marcoux (1887–1895) * Gabriël Legault (1895–1898) * James Barry (1898–1903, 1906–1908, 1917–1921) * George Napoléon Temins (1908–1909) * Léon Sauvé (1910–1911) * Joseph Guillaume Séguin (1911–1913) * Narcisse Sabourin (1913–1914) * Raphael Giroux (1914–1917, 1921–1922) * Joseph Philippe Ernest Deguire (1922–1933) * Joseph Oscar Boulais (1933–1939) * Joseph Donat Ludger Lévac (1939–1942) * Joseph Aléxandre Henry Lanthier (1942–1947) * Patrick William Barry (1947–1951) * Joseph Henri Adélard Bray (1951–1963) * Joseph-Antoine-Eugène Fex (1963–1973) * Joseph George Charlebois (1973–1981) * Joseph Napoléon Raymond Menard (1981–1987) * Claude Fournier (1987–1992) * Joseph Maurice Gérard André Lanthier (1992–2005) * Carol Lazare Dubé (2005–2009) * Patricia Domingos (2009–2013) * Gisèle Fournier (2013–2017) * Denis Ranger (2017–2021) * Shawn Campbell (2021–present)

Education

Commission Scolaire des Trois-Lacs operates Francophone schools. * École du Val-des-Prés Sainte-Justine

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operates Anglophone schools.School Board Map
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. Retrieved on 28 September 2017. * Soulanges Elementary School in Saint-Télesphore or Evergreen Elementary and Forest Hill Elementary (Junior Campus and Senior campus) in Saint-Lazare

References

External links

*
Official website
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