| Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague | |
| Settlement Type: | Parish municipality |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Quebec |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name3: | Beauharnois-Salaberry |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | July 1, 1855 |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Yves Daoust |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Salaberry—Suroît |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Beauharnois |
| Area Footnotes: | [2] |
| Area Total Km2: | 89.15 |
| Area Land Km2: | 77.04 |
| Population Total: | 1950 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 25.3 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop (2016-21) |
| Population Blank1: | 31.7% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 777 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | J0S 1T0 |
| Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague is a parish municipality in the Beauharnois-Salaberry Regional County Municipality in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. The population as of the 2021 Canadian census was 1,950.
The town centre is located along the banks of the Saint-Louis River.
One of the first settler in the area was Charles Larocque (1784-1849), who was deputy for Vaudreuil in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1833 to 1838. He managed the first general store in the village, that was originally named after him: Rocqueville, or sometimes spelled Rocque-ville or Larocqueville. Other original settlers came mostly from Saint-Timothée, Les Cèdres, and Île Perrot in the middle of the 19th century.
In 1845, the parish was formed, named after the Italian Jesuit Luigi Gonzaga. In 1855, the Parish Municipality of Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague was founded.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 77.04km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, Montérégie, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 1,850 | 28.8% | 94.9% | 55 | 57.1% | 2.8% | 35 | 250.0% | 1.8% | 15 | 200.0% | 0.8% | ||||||||
| 1,425 | 6.3% | 96.3% | 35 | 0.0% | 2.4% | 10 | 0.0% | 0.7% | 5 | 0.0% | 0.3% | ||||||||
| 1,340 | 5.9% | 96.4% | 35 | 75.0% | 2.5% | 10 | 86.7% | 0.7% | 5 | 93.3% | 0.4% | ||||||||
| 1,265 | 3.1% | 91.3% | 20 | 33.3% | 1.4% | 25 | 150.0% | 1.8% | 75 | 650.0% | 5.4% | ||||||||
| 1,305 | 3.3% | 96.3% | 30 | 14.3% | 2.2% | 10 | 0.0% | 0.7% | 10 | n/a% | 0.7% | ||||||||
| 1,350 | n/a | 96.8% | 35 | n/a | 2.5% | 10 | n/a | 0.7% | 0 | n/a | 0.0% | ||||||||
List of former mayors:[3]