Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur-de-Wolfestown | |
Settlement Type: | Parish municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Chaudière-Appalaches |
Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
Subdivision Name3: | Les Appalaches |
Established Title1: | Constituted |
Established Date1: | September 30, 1909 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Steven Laprise |
Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
Leader Name1: | Mégantic—L'Érable |
Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
Leader Name2: | Lotbinière-Frontenac |
Area Total Km2: | 61.60 |
Area Land Km2: | 59.32 |
Population Total: | 189 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Density Km2: | 3.2 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2006-2011 |
Population Blank1: | 10.5% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 133 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Postal Code: | G0N 1E2 |
Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
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Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur-de-Wolfestown is a parish municipality in Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population is 189 as of the Canada 2011 Census.
It was named after one of Jesus' first disciples, James, son of Zebedee. Wolfestown was the name of the historic township in which it is located, which was named after General James Wolfe.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur-de-Wolfestown had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 58.71km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[1]