Warwick is a small town north east of

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, located in Arthabaska county,

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. The town was incorporated in 1861 and named after the town of the same name in

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. Up until 2014 the town hosted Quebec's annual summer cheese festival, which showcases many of the locally produced artisanal

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s. In 2014 the festival was moved to

Victoriaville Victoriaville () is a town in south-central Quebec, Canada, on the Nicolet River. Victoriaville is the seat of Arthabaska Regional County Municipality and a part of the Centre-du-Québec (Bois-Francs) region. It is formed by the 1993 merger of ...

. Warwick also claims to be one of the possible birthplaces of

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(fries with gravy and cheese curds). It is an industrial centre, with factories for agricultural machinery, washing-machines, overalls, cheese-boxes, and doors. Warwick is located on Route 116.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Warwick 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.

Government

Political representation

Federally, Warwick is part of the federal riding of Richmond—Arthabaska. In the

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, the incumbent

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of the Conservative Party was re-elected to represent the population Warwick in the

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. Provincially it is part of the riding of Drummond–Bois-Francs. In the

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the incumbent MNA Sébastien Schneeberger, of the

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, was re-elected to represent the population of Warwick in the

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References

External links

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City of Warwick
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