| Mont-Joli | |
| 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: | 13 June 2001 |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Martin Soucy |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Matane-Matapédia |
| Area Total Km2: | 24.30 |
| Area Land Km2: | 24.24 |
| Elevation M: | 75 |
| Population Total: | 6384 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 263.3 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016–2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 1.6% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 3173 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | G5H 1W8 |
| Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | |
Mont-Joli (in French mɔ̃ ʒɔli/) is a city in the La Mitis Regional County Municipality within the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. It is the county seat. The city is located east of Rimouski near the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River.
In 1867, the main condition for New Brunswick and Nova-Scotia entering into the Canadian Confederation was, to be linked to the rest of the country by the railway. In 1868, work began on the Intercolonial Railway and the authorities decided to have the railway turn at Saint-Octave-de-Métis in Gaspésie. However, this village, because of its rugged landscape, was not suitable to receive the train station and maintenance shops. The engineers turned to the higher 2nd farming rank of Sainte-Flavie, and the train station was named Sainte-Flavie-Station. In 1880, Sainte-Flavie-Station became separate and was named Mont-Joli, the name which the first settlers had used to describe the area.
On 13 June 2001, the neighbouring municipality of Saint-Jean-Baptiste (not to be confused with a different Saint-Jean-Baptiste in the Montérégie region) merged with Mont-Joli.[1]
Mont-Joli has a humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb). The average annual temperature in Mont-Joli is . The average annual precipitation is with October as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around, and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Mont-Joli was on 4 July 1983; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 3 January 2014.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Mont-Joli had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 24.24km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
Mont-Joli is the easternmost end of Autoroute 20, whose segment connects with the city of Rimouski. Route 132 runs through the centre of Mont-Joli as part of a loop that circumnavigates the Gaspé Peninsula; it is about 30NaN0 southeast of Sainte-Flavie, where Route 132 intersects with itself.
Mont-Joli Airport is the only airport with scheduled service in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. Mont-Joli is also served by the Mont-Joli railway station.
One of the inventors of the snowauto, patented in 1923
Inventor of tights
Composer for Cirque du Soleil
Airline pilot in Mont-Joli, involved in the 236 Air Transat incident
Ex-NHL hockey player and assistant manager to the Rimouski Océanic
Writer
Writer
Olympic cyclist (Seoul, 1988)
Mr. Québec 1960, Mr. Canada 1961, Mr. America 1961, Mr. Universe 1967 (5th place)
Researcher for worker relations
Karting pilot
Politician
Musician, music group Delta 20
Economist and Canadian Senator