| Saint-Télesphore | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
| Pushpin Label: | Saint-Télesphore |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec |
| Coordinates: | 45.3°N -97°W |
| 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: | 19 April 1877 |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | David Watson McKay |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Salaberry—Suroît |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Soulanges |
| Area Footnotes: | [3] |
| Area Total Km2: | 60.67 |
| Area Land Km2: | 60.10 |
| Population Total: | 754 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 12.5 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 0.7% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 352 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | J0P 1Y0 |
| Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | |
Saint-Télesphore is a municipality located in Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality, Quebec (Canada). The population as of the 2021 Canadian census was 754. The municipality is situated west of Saint-Polycarpe, south of Sainte-Justine-de-Newton, north of Rivière-Baudette and east of the provincial border near North Lancaster, Ontario.
The municipality is named for Pope Telesphorus, who reigned from 126 to 138 AD. In addition to the village of Saint-Télesphore itself, the municipality also includes the community of Dalhousie or Dalhousie Station along the Canadian Pacific railway.
Settlement began around 1800 with the arrival of Scottish, Irish, and English immigrants. At that time, the place was called Rivière-Delisle, Lac-Saint-François, or Rivière-au-Beaudet.
In 1877, the Parish Municipality of Saint-Télesphore was created, named after the parish that was formed one year earlier. In 1879, its post office opened.
On August 7, 2010, the parish municipality changed its statutes to become a (regular) municipality.
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Saint-Télesphore, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 655 | 4.0% | 85.62% | 80 | 33.3% | 10.46% | 20 | n/a% | 2.61% | 10 | 33.3% | 1.31% | ||||||||
| 630 | 4.5% | 82.35% | 120 | 14.3% | 15.69% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.00% | 15 | n/a% | 1.96% | ||||||||
| 660 | 9.6% | 85.16% | 105 | 23.5% | 13.55% | 10 | n/a% | 1.29% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | ||||||||
| 730 | n/a | 89.57% | 85 | n/a | 10.43% | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | ||||||||
List of former mayors:[4]
Commission Scolaire des Trois-Lacs operates Francophone schools.[5]
Lester B. Pearson School Board operates Anglophone schools.[6]