Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage | |
Settlement Type: | Parish municipality |
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: | September 29, 1873 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Réginald Morissette |
Leader Title1: | |
Leader Name1: | Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia |
Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
Leader Name2: | Matane-Matapédia |
Area Total Km2: | 32.00 |
Area Land Km2: | 30.98 |
Population Total: | 590 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Density Km2: | 19 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
Population Blank1: | 12.8% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 260 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Postal Code: | G5H 3N8 |
Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage is a parish municipality in La Mitis Regional County Municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada.
It is located 5 km south-east of Mont-Joli in the Matapédia River Valley. The village is 350 km north east of Québec city and 360 km west of Gaspé. The nearest towns are Mont-Joli, and Rimouski which lies 40 km to the south-east.
Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage takes its name from the colonial lordship, the Seigneurie Lepage-et-Thibierge, which was the early governance of the area. Its 500 residents work largely in agriculture and forestry.[1]
The ecclesiastical parish of the same name is in the Archdiocese of Rimouski.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 30.98km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
Population trend:[3]
Private dwellings (occupied by usual residents): 223
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