| Lawrenceville | |
| Settlement Type: | Village municipality |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Estrie |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name3: | Le Val-Saint-François |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | April 27, 1905 |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Michel Carbonneau |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Shefford |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Orford |
| Area Total Km2: | 17.20 |
| Area Land Km2: | 17.32 |
| Area Note: | There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources |
| Population Total: | 652 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Density Km2: | 37.7 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2006-2011 |
| Population Blank1: | 1.6% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 285 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | J0E 1W0 |
| Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Name Sec2: | Census profile |
| Blank Info Sec2: | 2442045 |
| Blank1 Name Sec2: | MAMROT info |
| Blank1 Info Sec2: | 42045 |
| Blank2 Name Sec2: | Toponymie info |
| Blank2 Info Sec2: | 34934 |
Lawrenceville is a Village municipality in the Le Val-Saint-François Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada.
It is situated west of Sherbrooke, near the Black River. Around 650 Lawrence villagers are counted in an area of 17 square kilometres.
The name of the village honours Mr. Henry Lawrence, son of Isaac Lawrence who originally came from Canaan, Connecticut, and moved to Shefford Township in 1794 settling his family near Lake Waterloo between Fulford and Waterloo. In 1800 the township of Stukely was created, and Henry and his brother Erastus became Samuel Willard's associates and both moved to South Stukely in 1804. Erastus died 8 years later. In 1836 Henry Lawrence moved to the northern part of Stukely and built a sawmill and flourmill on an island which became part of Lawrenceville. Although, the village of Lawrenceville was not constituted until 1905 by detachment of the municipality from the township of North-Stukely. Only remains of the building can still be found on Henry's Island, two dwellings still exist: dating from the 19th century, that is the Island Park House of Victorian style and another house, with a double-slope roof. Henry died in 1864, surviving his first wife Polly Day, daughter of Pelatiah and Hannah (Curtis) Day, and remarried to Elizabeth Lewis, daughter of the precursor of Waterloo, Captain Ezekiel Lewis and his wife Abigail Gibbs.[1]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lawrenceville had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 16.73km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
Mother tongue (2011)
| Language | Population | Pct (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| French only | 640 | 97.0% | |
| English only | 10 | 1.5% | |
| Both English and French | 5 | 0.75% | |
| Non-official languages | 5 | 0.75% |