| Trois-Pistoles | |
| Settlement Type: | City |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Eastern Quebec#Canada |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in eastern Quebec |
| Coordinates: | 48.12°N -69.18°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Quebec |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name3: | Les Basques |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | 9 March 1916 |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Philippe Guilbert |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata —Les Basques |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Rivière-du-Loup–Témiscouata |
| Area Total Km2: | 9.60 |
| Area Land Km2: | 7.63 |
| Population Total: | 3115 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 408.1 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016–2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 4.0% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 1727 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −05:00 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −04:00 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | G0L 4K0 |
| Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | |
Trois-Pistoles is a city in Les Basques Regional County Municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. It is also the county seat. The town is located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River.
A ferry crosses the river to Les Escoumins on the north shore. The port facilities are also used by fishing boats and scuba divers.
The town is the site of the University of Western Ontario's annual French immersion program, which has existed since 1932. It is the oldest such program in Canada.
Just offshore of the town lies Île aux Basques, an island that was used by Basque whalers in the 16th century. The island, part of the surrounding Municipality of Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, is a National Historic Site of Canada and is now a migratory bird sanctuary.[1]
The town has hosted the Festival Échofête de Trois-Pistoles, an environmentalism-themed music festival and fair each July since 2002. It is Quebec's largest environmental festival.[2] [3]
The town can be reached by Via Rail on the named train The Ocean, between Montreal and Halifax.
The town is said to have been named for a silver goblet worth three pistoles, an old French coin, that was lost in the river in the 17th century.[4]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Trois-Pistoles had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 7.63km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[5]
| Canada Census Mother Tongue – Trois-Pistoles, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 2,950 | 6.5% | 98.5% | 15 | 0.0% | 0.5% | 10 | n/a% | 0.3% | 20 | n/a% | 0.7% | ||||||||
| 3,155 | 6.5% | 99.4% | 15 | 0.0% | 0.5% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | ||||||||
| 3,375 | 5.3% | 99.4% | 15 | n/a% | 0.4% | 5 | n/a% | 0.2% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.0% | ||||||||
| 3,195 | 6.2% | 98.3% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 55 | n/a% | 1.7% | ||||||||
| 3,405 | 3.7% | 99.3% | 25 | 28.6% | 0.7% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | ||||||||
| 3,535 | n/a | 98.7% | 35 | n/a | 1.0% | 10 | n/a | 0.3% | 0 | n/a | 0.0% | ||||||||