Stanstead is a
township municipality
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of about 1,100 people in the
Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality in the
Estrie
Estrie () is an List of Quebec regions, administrative region of Quebec that comprises the Eastern Townships. ''Estrie'', a French neologism, was coined as a derivative of ''est'', "east". Originally settled by anglophones, today it is about 90 pe ...
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
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with predominance in
French language
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(about 64%).
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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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
This is a list of anglophone communities in the Canadian province of Quebec. Municipalities with a high percentage of English-speakers in Quebec are listed.
The provincial average of Quebecers whose mother tongue is English is 7.6%, with a tot ...
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List of township municipalities in Quebec
This is a list of municipalities that have the Quebec municipal type township municipality, an administrative division defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy.
Township municipalities
(area is in km², populati ...
References
External links
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Township municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Estrie