| Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague- du-Cap-Tourmente | |
| Flag Size: | 120x100px |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Central Quebec |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Pushpin Label: | St-Louis-de-Gonzague-du-Cap-Tourmente |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in central Quebec |
| Coordinates: | 47.0667°N -120°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Established Title: | Settled |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | January 1, 1917 |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] |
| Leader Title: | Administrator |
| Leader Name: | Jacques Roberge |
| Area Footnotes: | [2] |
| Area Total Km2: | 7.90 |
| Area Land Km2: | 0.42 |
| Population Footnotes: | [3] |
| Population Total: | 0 |
| Population Density Km2: | 0 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 100% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 1 |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague-du-Cap-Tourmente (pronounced as /fr/) is a parish municipality in Quebec, Canada.
Its population in the Canada 2021 Census was 0.[3] It is a relic of the seigneurial system of New France.[4]
Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague-du-Cap-Tourmente is a small enclave within the municipality of Saint-Joachim, at the foot of Cape Tourmente, and east of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, in the regional county municipality of La Côte-de-Beaupré in the region of Capitale-Nationale.
Located near the provincial capital of Quebec City, it is part of the Communauté métropolitaine de Québec.
Named for Saint Aloysius Gonzaga and Cap Tourmente, a stormy promontory named by Samuel de Champlain, the municipality was set up in 1917 by a law that detached certain buildings and lands belonging to the Séminaire de Québec from the parish of Saint-Joachim in order to avoid paying municipal taxes and fees. At that time, it had an area of several square kilometres, including farmland; however, the law specified that if the Séminaire sold any of its property, it would revert to Saint-Joachim.[4]
By and by, all of the Séminaire's property was sold and was thereby returned to Saint-Joachim, except for the Petit-Cap property, which now constitutes the entire territory of the municipality.
The municipality is not governed by a municipal council but by the Board of Directors of the Séminaire de Québec. As such, it does not have a mayor but rather an administrator.[1]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague-du-Cap-Tourmente had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 0.42km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[5]
Population trend:[6]