| Charlemagne | |
| Flag Size: | 120x100px |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Central Quebec |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in central Quebec |
| Coordinates: | 45.7167°N -102°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Established Title: | Settled |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | November 13, 1906 |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Normand Grenier |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 2.30 |
| Area Land Km2: | 2.17 |
| Population Total: | 6302 |
| Population Density Km2: | 2906.2 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016–2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 6.6% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 3,217 |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Charlemagne (in French pronounced as /ʃaʁləmaɲ/) is a city in the Province of Québec, Canada, on the north shore of the Rivière des Prairies, 24km (15miles) northeast of the city of Montréal’s downtown core. As of 2021, the population was 6,302.
Charlemagne is, famously, the birthplace and childhood hometown of singer Céline Dion, best known for the song "My Heart Will Go On" from the 1997 film Titanic;[2] the town council named one of its main streets after her[3] without the recognition of a Québec commission.[4] Additionally, the town erected a sculpture on Dion's behalf.[4] Charlemagne is also the birthplace of politician Camille Laurin.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Charlemagne had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, an increase of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 2.17km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[5]
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Charlemagne, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 5,535 | 2.8% | 94.86% | 90 | 63.6% | 1.54% | 25 | 150.0% | 0.43% | 185 | 32.1% | 3.17% | ||||||||
| 5,385 | 3.1% | 96.33% | 55 | 15.4% | 0.98% | 10 | n/a% | 0.18% | 140 | 250.0% | 2.50% | ||||||||
| 5,560 | 0.5% | 98.15% | 65 | 8.3% | 1.15% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | 40 | 20.0% | 0.71% | ||||||||
| 5,590 | n/a | 98.07% | 60 | n/a | 1.05% | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | 50 | n/a | 0.88% | ||||||||