Clarenceville | |
Official Name: | Middleview and Swisskess |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec |
Coordinates: | 45.0667°N -88°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Montérégie |
Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
Subdivision Name3: | Le Haut-Richelieu |
Established Title1: | Constituted |
Established Date1: | December 27, 1989 |
Government Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Louis Hak |
Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
Leader Name1: | Brome—Missisquoi |
Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
Leader Name2: | Iberville |
Area Total Km2: | 81.70 |
Area Land Km2: | 63.06 |
Population Total: | 1154 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Density Km2: | 18.3 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
Population Blank1: | 4.6% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 732 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Postal Code: | J0J 1B0 |
Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Clarenceville (formerly Saint-Georges-de-Clarenceville) (in French pronounced as /sɛ̃ ʒɔʁʒ də klaʁɑ̃svil/) is a municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada, located in the Regional County Municipality of Le Haut-Richelieu. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 1,154. Some parts of the municipality have no drinking water system or sewers.[3]
Originally part of New France the area was named Seigneurie de Foucault and settled after 1727. The land was transferred to British rule after the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783. The area was leased to Colonel Henry Caldwell in 1774 and called Caldwell's Manor, then sold in 1842 to Joseph Frederic Allard and renamed Allard's Manor. In 1822, the name was changed to Saint-Georges-de-Clarenceville, briefly Clarenceville,[4] after William, the Duke of Clarence (1765–1837), third son of King George III, who later became William IV.[5] The name was changed again in October 2022, to the Municipality of Clarenceville.[6]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Clarenceville had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 63.06km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[7]
Canada Census Mother Tongue - Clarenceville, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
805 | 8.1% | 69.7% | 260 | 7.1% | 22.5% | 25 | 150.0% | 2.2% | 50 | 23.1% | 4.3% | ||||||||
745 | 12.0% | 67.7% | 280 | 6.7% | 25.5% | 10 | 33.3% | 0.9% | 65 | 0.0% | 5.9% | ||||||||
665 | 15.8% | 63.6% | 300 | 33.3% | 28.7% | 15 | 50.0% | 1.4% | 65 | 8.3% | 6.2% | ||||||||
790 | 35.0% | 71.5% | 225 | 41.6% | 20.4% | 30 | 20.0% | 2.7% | 60 | 20.0% | 5.4% | ||||||||
585 | 41.0% | 54.7% | 385 | 13.5% | 36.0% | 25 | 0.0% | 2.3% | 75 | 16.7% | 7.0% | ||||||||
415 | n/a | 42.6% | 445 | n/a | 45.6% | 25 | n/a | 2.6% | 90 | n/a | 9.2% |