Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac | |
Settlement Type: | Parish municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Central Quebec |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in central Quebec. |
Coordinates: | 46.8167°N -118°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Mauricie |
Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
Subdivision Name3: | Mékinac |
Established Title1: | Constituted |
Established Date1: | November 2, 1905 |
Government Footnotes: | [1] |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Guy Dessureault |
Leader Name2: | Laviolette |
Area Total Km2: | 155.50 |
Area Land Km2: | 145.11 |
Population Total: | 302 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Density Km2: | 2.1 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2011-2016 |
Population Blank1: | 31.1% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 293 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Postal Code: | G0X 2E0 |
Area Code: | 819 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | |
Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac is a parish municipality in the Mékinac Regional County Municipality, in administrative region of Mauricie, in the province of Quebec in Canada.
Municipal territory covers both side of Saint-Maurice River, including a small portion of La Mauricie National Park. The village of Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac is located at the top of a hill on Eastern side of Saint-Maurice River.
The Saint-Roch parish was named in honour of Roch of Montpellier. The term Mékinac is associated with several homonyms of place names in the sector: Mékinac River, Saint-Joseph-de-Mékinac and Mékinac Lake.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 144.52km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
2016 | 302 | -31,1 % | 55,4 years | |
2011 | 438 | +35,2 % | 55,6 years | |
2006 | 324 | +5,9 % | ||
2001 | 306 | +2,7 % | ||
1996 | 298 | +2,0 % | ||
1991 | 292 | – | ||
1986 | – | – |