| Saint-Polycarpe | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Motto: | travail, progrès et égalité pour tous (work, progress, and equality for all) |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Quebec |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Montérégie |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name3: | Vaudreuil-Soulanges |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | 31 December 1988 |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Jean-Yves Poirier |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Salaberry—Suroît |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Soulanges |
| Area Footnotes: | [3] |
| Area Total Km2: | 70.73 |
| Area Land Km2: | 69.88 |
| Population Total: | 2372 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 33.9 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 6.7% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 1030 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | J0P 1X0 |
| Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
Saint-Polycarpe (in French pronounced as /sɛ̃ pɔlikaʁp/) is a municipality located in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality in the Montérégie region west of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and just east of the Quebec-Ontario border. It was named for Polycarp, a 2nd-century bishop of Smyrna. The population as of the 2021 Canadian Census was 2,372.
While a parish during the 18th century, its territory included portions of what is now part of Saint-Zotique.
Settlement began around 1800 when a sawmill and a flour mill were built at the rapids of the Delisle river. In 1818, a chapel was built there and in 1830, the parish was established, called Saint-Polycarpe de la Nouvelle-Longueuil. Its post office was built in 1846.[4]
In 1845, the Municipality of La Nouvelle-Longueuil was created, but abolished in 1847. In 1855, it was recreated out of Vaudreuil County as the Parish Municipality of Saint-Polycarpe. In 1887, the village itself split off from the surrounding rural parish to form the Village Municipality of Saint-Polycarpe.
On December 31, 1988, the parish and village merged again to form the Municipality of Saint-Polycarpe.
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Saint-Polycarpe, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 2,010 | 12.3% | 90.3% | 100 | 5.3% | 4.5% | 25 | 66.7% | 1.1% | 90 | 38.5% | 4.0% | ||||||||
| 1,790 | 10.2% | 91.09% | 95 | 171.4% | 4.83% | 15 | 50.0% | 0.76% | 65 | 62.5% | 3.31% | ||||||||
| 1,625 | 2.2% | 95.03% | 35 | 30.0% | 2.05% | 10 | n/a% | 0.58% | 40 | n/a% | 2.34% | ||||||||
| 1,590 | 6.0% | 96.95% | 50 | 61.5% | 3.05% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.00% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.00% | ||||||||
| 1,500 | n/a | 90.91% | 130 | n/a | 7.88% | 10 | n/a | 0.61% | 10 | n/a | 0.61% | ||||||||
List of former mayors (since formation of current municipality):[5]
Saint-Polycarpe is located along Route 340 with nearby Quebec Autoroute 20 running south of the municipality.
Commission Scolaire des Trois-Lacs operates Francophone schools.[6]
Lester B. Pearson School Board operates Anglophone schools.[7]
Based on the Dalhousie Mills station in Saint-Télesphore