| Métis-sur-Mer | |
| Settlement Type: | City |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Eastern Quebec |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in eastern Quebec |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name3: | La Mitis |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | July 4, 2002 |
| Parts Type: | Boroughs |
| Parts Style: | para |
| P1: | MacNider |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Jean-Pierre Pelletier |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Matane-Matapédia |
| Area Total Km2: | 263.70 |
| Area Land Km2: | 48.60 |
| Population Total: | 587 |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Population Density Km2: | 12.1 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2011–2016 |
| Population Blank1: | 3.3% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 471 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | G0J 1S0 |
| Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
Métis-sur-Mer is a city in the La Mitis Regional County Municipality within the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. It had a population of 587 in the Canada 2016 Census.
The name "Métis" is said to come from a Mi'kmaq word meaning "meeting place"; "sur-mer" refers to its location on the Saint Lawrence River.
From 1818, John MacNider, the Scottish Seigneur of Métis started settling the area with Scottish immigrants.
The city has a borough named MacNider, named after MacNider's family. Its territory corresponds to the former (pre-merger) village municipality of Métis-sur-Mer (Metis Beach).
The town was a popular summer vacation spot for wealthy anglophone Montrealers. At the end of the 19th century, they spent their time in Métis-sur-Mer to flee waves of cholera. At the beginning of the 20th century, they did so again to escape outbreaks of the Spanish flu.[1]
On July 4, 2002, the village of Métis-sur-Mer and the municipality of Les Boules merged to form the city of Métis-sur-Mer.[2]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Métis-sur-Mer had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 48.22km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[3]
Population trend:[4]
| Census | Population | Change (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 594 | 3.8% | |
| 2016 | 572 | 11.1% | |
| 2011 | 644 | 6.6% | |
| 2006 | 604 | N/A |