Louiseville should not be confused with Louisville.
| Louiseville | |
| Settlement Type: | City |
| Motto: | Excellence et Harmonie ("Excellence and Harmony") |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Central Quebec |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in central Quebec. |
| Coordinates: | 46.25°N -129°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Mauricie |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name3: | Maskinongé |
| Established Title: | Settled |
| Established Date: | 1714 |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | December 31, 1988 |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Yvon Deshaies |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Berthier—Maskinongé |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Maskinongé |
| Area Total Km2: | 63.40 |
| Area Land Km2: | 62.59 |
| Population Total: | 7517 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Density Km2: | 120.1 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2006-2011 |
| Population Blank1: | 1.1% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 3694 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | J5V |
| Area Code: | 819 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | |
Louiseville (in French pronounced as /lwizvil/) is a town in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada. It is located near the mouth of the 'Rivière-du-Loup', on the north shore of Lac Saint-Pierre.
Louiseville is twinned with Soissons in France and Cerfontaine in Belgium.
The area was originally part of the la Seignorie Rivière-du-Loup. This seignory was formed in 1665 by Intendant Jean Talon and granted in 1672 to Charles Dugey Rozoy-de-Mannereuil, officer in the Carignan Regiment. The seignory was thereafter also known as Rivière-Mannereuil for some time.[1]
In 1714, a mission was formed by the Récollets who dedicated it to the patronage of Anthony of Padua. In 1722, the Ursulines owned the seignory and attempted to change the name to Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-Saint-Jean but the settlement became known as Rivière-du-Loup or Rivière-du-Loup-en-Haut after the seignory or local river.[1]
In 1816, its post office opened. In 1845, the Parish Municipality of Rivière-du-Loup-en-Haut was formed, and abolished two years later in 1847. It was reestablished in 1855 as Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup, named after the parish patron and the seignory. In 1878, the main settlement separated from the parish municipality and formed the Village Municipality of Rivière-du-Loup. Just one year later it was renamed to Louiseville in order to avoid confusion with another town called Rivière-du-Loup in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. The new name was a tribute to Princess Louise, viceregal consort of Canada, the third daughter of Queen Victoria, who had planned to visit the Mauricie that same year.[1]
On January 1, 1989, the parish and village municipalities merged again and became the Town of Louiseville.[1]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Louiseville had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 62.59km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
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