| Sainte-Marthe | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
| 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: | 27 December 1980 |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | François Pleau |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Salaberry—Suroît |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Soulanges |
| Area Footnotes: | [3] |
| Area Total Km2: | 79.92 |
| Area Land Km2: | 79.60 |
| Population Total: | 1014 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 12.7 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 7.6% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 448 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | J0P 1W0 |
| Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
Sainte-Marthe (pronounced as /fr/) is a municipality located in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality of Quebec, Canada. The population as of the 2021 Canadian census was 1,014.
The local economy is based almost exclusively on agriculture.
Settlement began in 1835 with the arrival of Irish immigrants. In 1846, the parish was founded and named after Martha, the sister of Lazarus, since the neighbouring parish was called Saint-Lazare.
That same year, the Municipality of Sainte Marthe was created out of the Municipality of Rigaud, but abolished on September 1, 1847. In 1851, its post office opened. On July 1, 1855, the municipality was reestablised, which became a parish municipality in 1857.[4]
In 1928, the village itself separated from the surrounding rural parish and became the Village Municipality of Sainte-Marthe.[5]
On December 27, 1980, the parish and village merged to form the Municipality of Sainte-Marthe.
On 5–6 April 2023, a storm of black ice caused 623 person to lose electricity.[6]
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Sainte-Marthe, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 875 | 1.7% | 81.40% | 150 | 3.4% | 13.95% | 15 | 40.0% | 1.40% | 35 | 133.3% | 3.25% | ||||||||
| 890 | 5.8% | 82.79% | 145 | 20.8% | 13.49% | 25 | 150.0% | 2.32% | 15 | 0.0% | 1.40% | ||||||||
| 945 | 9.9% | 86.70% | 120 | 11.1% | 11.01% | 10 | 0.0% | 0.92% | 15 | 83.3% | 1.38% | ||||||||
| 860 | n/a | 78.54% | 135 | n/a | 12.33% | 10 | n/a | 0.91% | 90 | n/a | 8.22% | ||||||||
List of former mayors (since formation of current municipality):[7]
Commission Scolaire des Trois-Lacs operates Francophone schools.[8]
Lester B. Pearson School Board operates Anglophone schools.[9]