Stanstead is a
township municipality of about 1,100 people in the
Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality in the
Estrie region of
Quebec
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. It is not to be confused with the
city of Stanstead, which is nearby although not directly adjacent (the municipality of
Ogden lies in between).
Formally, the township consists of two villages: Fitch Bay (founded in 1855) and Georgeville (founded in the 1890s). Today, the population is
bilingual with predominance in
French language
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(about 64%).
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Stanstead 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 anglophone communities in Quebec
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List of township municipalities in Quebec
References
External links
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Township municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Estrie