Saint-Liboire | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec |
Coordinates: | 45.65°N -118°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Quebec |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Montérégie |
Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
Subdivision Name3: | Les Maskoutains |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Date: | 1710 |
Established Title1: | Constituted |
Established Date1: | August 17, 1994 |
Government Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Denis Chabot |
Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
Leader Name1: | Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot |
Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
Leader Name2: | Saint-Hyacinthe |
Area Total Km2: | 75.20 |
Area Land Km2: | 72.74 |
Population Total: | 3051 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Density Km2: | 41.9 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2006-2011 |
Population Blank1: | 5.4% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 1107 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −05:00 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −04:00 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Postal Code: | J0H 1R0 |
Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | |
Blank1 Name: | Geocode |
Blank1 Info: | 54072 |
Blank2 Name: | People |
Blank2 Info: | Liboirois, Liboiroise |
Saint-Liboire (or Saint-Liboire-de-Bagot) is a municipality in the municipalité régionale de comté des Maskoutains in Québec, Canada, located in the administrative region of Montérégie. The population as of the 2011 Canadian Census was 3,051.
Before the foundation of Saint-Liboire, the actual town territory was included in the Seigneurie de Ramezay given to Claude de Ramezay near 1710.
The village municipality was founded in 1857 with the purpose to offer more arable lands to the Catholic colonists coming from the Saint-Hyacinthe region.
It became the chief town of Bagot County.
The book Centenaire de Saint-Liboire, 20-24 juin 1957 : album-souvenir, 1857-1957 written by Dollard Boucher and Armand Laliberté, and is available at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
Canada Census Mother Tongue - Saint-Liboire, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
3,010 | 4.9% | 99.01% | 10 | 33.3% | 0.33% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | 20 | 33.3% | 0.66% | ||||||||
2,870 | 4.2% | 98.46% | 15 | 25.0% | 0.51% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.00% | 30 | 0.0% | 1.03% | ||||||||
2,755 | 8.5% | 97.87% | 20 | 20.0% | 0.71% | 10 | n/a% | 0.35% | 30 | 100.0% | 1.07% | ||||||||
2,540 | n/a | 98.45% | 25 | n/a | 0.97% | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | 15 | n/a | 0.58% |