Senneterre is a

parish municipality A parish is an administrative division used by several countries. To distinguish it from an ''ecclesiastical parish'', the term ''civil parish'' is used in some jurisdictions, as noted below. The table below lists countries which use this admini ...

in northwestern

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Government of Canada, Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is ...

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, in the

La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality La Vallée-de-l'Or ''(The Golden Valley)'' is a regional county municipality in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region in Northwestern Quebec, Canada. The seat is in Val-d'Or. It is named for its gold deposits in the Harricana River and Bell River v ...

. The parish is mostly a rural municipality that almost completely surrounds the actual population centre of the neighbouring City of Senneterre. The place is named after the geographic township of Senneterre, that in turn was named in honour of a captain of the Languedoc Regiment that fought under

General Montcalm Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Grozon, Marquis de Montcalm de Saint-Veran (28 February 1712 – 14 September 1759) was a French soldier best known as the commander of the forces in North America during the Seven Years' War (whose North American ...

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 Statistics Canada, Senneterre 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. Population trend:Statistics Canada:

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, 2006, 2011 census * Population in 2011: 1218 (2006 to 2011 population change: 2.7%) * Population in 2006: 1186 * Population in 2001: 1192 * Population in 1996: 1169 * Population in 1991: 1082 Mother tongue: * English as first language: 0.9% * French as first language: 99.1% * English and French as first language: 0% * Other as first language: 0%

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Senneterre (Parish), Quebec Parish municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Abitibi-Témiscamingue