Sainte-Madeleine () is a
village municipality in southwestern
Quebec
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, Canada in
Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality
Les Maskoutains () is a regional county municipality in the Montérégie region in southwestern Quebec, Canada. Its seat is in Saint-Hyacinthe.
The name comes from Algonquin word ''maskutew'' meaning "bear plain" in plular.
Subdivisions
There ...
. The population as of the
Canada 2011 Census
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was 2,356.
Le Camping Ste-Madeleine, founded in 1967 for visitors to EXPO 67, is the area's principal tourist attraction. The annual musical event, the Festival Country du Camping Sainte-Madeleine, held in late July, attracts approximately 5,000 visitors to the community of 2,356.
Individuals born in Sainte-Madeleine include artist
France Jodoin.
[Boucher, Sarah. ''De toutes petites histoires / Simple Short Stories''. Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke: 2012. Print.]
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Sainte-Madeleine 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.
See also
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List of village municipalities in Quebec
References
External links
Villages in Quebec
Incorporated places in Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality
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