| Saint-Zotique | |
| Settlement Type: | City |
| Motto: | Vivons heureux (Let's live happily) |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Montérégie |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name3: | Vaudreuil-Soulanges |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | 27 May 1967 |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
| Government Type: | Saint-Zotique City Council |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Yvon Chiasson |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Salaberry—Suroît |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Soulanges |
| Area Footnotes: | [3] |
| Area Total Km2: | 50.10 |
| Area Land Km2: | 25.04 |
| Population Total: | 9618 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 384.0 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 21.2% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 4164 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | J0P 1Z0 |
| Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | |
Saint-Zotique (pronounced as /fr/, pronounced as /fr-CA/) is a city located within the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality in the Montérégie region located about 45 minutes west of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is named for Saint Zoticus of Comana.
The city resides on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River and Lake Saint Francis and along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor, the most populated area in Canada.
The first economic activities in the region started in the mid-18th century with forest exploitation and agriculture. The place was first named "Concession-du-Lac" and "Lac-Saint-François" after the adjacent lake. Subsequently, it was also known as "Longueuil-sur-le-Lac" (because it was part of the seigneury of New Longueuil, and "Moulin-Biron" (named after the owner of the first sawmill built near the wharf).[4]
Saint-Zotique officially became parish near 1849 when it was separated from the parish of Saint-Polycarpe located a few kilometres to the north. In 1854, its post office opened, and a year later in 1855, the Parish Municipality of Saint-Zotique was formed.[4]
In 1913, the village itself split off from the parish municipality to form the Village Municipality of Saint-Zotique, and eventually the two municipalities merged again to form a new village municipality in 1967. On 4 April 2009, it changed its status to just municipality and in 2023, it became a city.[4]
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Saint-Zotique, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 8,530 | 16.3% | 88.9% | 580 | 68.1% | 6.2% | 160 | 146.2% | 1.7% | 285 | 72.2% | 2.9% | ||||||||
| 7,335 | 16.5% | 92.4% | 345 | 18.0% | 4.4% | 65 | 0.0% | 0.8% | 165 | 153.8% | 2.1% | ||||||||
| 6,295 | 21.1% | 93.1% | 300 | 43.3% | 4.4% | 65 | 30.8% | 1.0% | 100 | 25.0% | 1.5% | ||||||||
| 4,965 | 19.8% | 94.5% | 170 | 20.6% | 3.2% | 45 | 44.4% | 0.9% | 75 | 86.7% | 1.4% | ||||||||
| 3,980 | 14.1% | 95.9% | 135 | 6.9% | 3.3% | 25 | 58.3% | 0.6% | 10 | 77.8% | 0.2% | ||||||||
| 3,420 | n/a | 93.2% | 145 | n/a | 4.0% | 60 | n/a | 1.6% | 45 | n/a | 1.2% | ||||||||
The town is home to a popular beach which can accommodate as many as 10,000 people. Located on Lac Saint-François, nautical sports are among the region's most popular activities and the town also has a golf course.[5]
| Liberal | Conservative | Bloc Québécois | New Democratic | Green | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 28% | 1,278 | 17% | 794 | 44% | 2,024 | 7% | 304 | 0% | 0 | ||||||
| 2019 | 29% | 1,333 | 9% | 405 | 49% | 2,230 | 8% | 340 | 3% | 140 | ||||||
| CAQ | Liberal | QC solidaire | Parti Québécois | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 50% | 2,284 | 20% | 902 | 13% | 605 | 13% | 610 | |||||
| 2014 | 0% | 0 | 41% | 1,511 | 12% | 438 | 42% | 1,558 | |||||
Saint-Zotique forms part of the federal electoral district of Salaberry—Suroît and has been represented by Claude DeBellefeuille of the Bloc Québécois since 2019. Provincially, Saint-Zotique is part of the Soulanges electoral district and is represented by Marilyne Picard of the Coalition Avenir Québec since 2018.
List of former mayors:[6]
Located on Route 338 and just south of Autoroute 20 near the Ontario-Quebec border, it is easily accessible from the busiest transportation corridor of the country with direct links to Montreal, Cornwall and Toronto.
Commission Scolaire des Trois-Lacs operates Francophone schools.[7]
Lester B. Pearson School Board operates Anglophone schools.[9]