Memphrémagog | |
Settlement Type: | Regional county municipality |
Coordinates: | 45.2667°N -77°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Established Title: | Effective |
Established Date: | January 1, 1982 |
Seat Type: | County seat |
Seat: | Magog |
Government Footnotes: | [1] |
Government Type: | Prefecture |
Leader Title: | Prefect |
Leader Name: | Jacques Demers |
Area Total Km2: | 1,449.00 |
Area Land Km2: | 1,319.29 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 50,415 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Density Km2: | 38.2 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2011-2016 |
Population Blank1: | 3.8% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 30,430 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Area Code: | 819 |
Memphrémagog is a regional county municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada.
After the signing of the Treaty of Paris on September 3, 1783, the American Revolutionary War ended. the state of Vermont was established in 1791. The border of Lower Canada was then defined at approximately 45 degrees north latitude.[3] [4] The territory immediately adjacent to it became part of Quebec in 1848.
There are 17 subdivisions within the RCM:[1]
Canada Census Mother Tongue - Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
45,080 | 9% | 83.03% | 6,870 | 2.9% | 12.65% | 1,065 | 86.8% | 1.96% | 1,080 | 18.02% | 1.98% | ||||||||
41,325 | 4.73 | 83.34% | 6,675 | 6.7% | 13.46% | 570 | 2.5% | 1.1% | 915 | 22.8% | 1.84% | ||||||||
39,455 | 10.7% | 82.30% | 7,155 | 8.1% | 14.92% | 585 | 80.0% | 1.22% | 745 | 24.7% | 1.55% | ||||||||
35,645 | 10.6% | 79.66% | 7,785 | 1.0% | 17.40% | 325 | 31.6% | 0.73% | 990 | 53.5% | 2.21% | ||||||||
32,215 | 10.4% | 78.20% | 7,860 | 1.9% | 19.08% | 475 | 5.5% | 1.15% | 645 | 31.6% | 1.57% | ||||||||
29,175 | n/a | 77.12% | 7,715 | n/a | 20.39% | 450 | n/a | 1.19% | 490 | n/a | 1.30% |
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[5]