Estérel, Quebec
History
The area of Estérel was first part of the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson, which formed in the early 1860s.
Around 1920, Baron Louis Empain, son of Belgian industrialist Baron Édouard Empain, acquired substantially all the land around Lake Masson intending to build a resort called Estérel, named after the Esterel massif in Provence, south-east France. In 1939, the Estérel Post Office opened.
In 1958, Fridolin Simard, an industrialist from Abitibi, bought over 2000 hectares of the baron's estate and completed the holiday resort. A year later in 1959, The Town of Estérel was formed when it separated from Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson.
On October 10, 2001, the Town of Estérel and the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson were merged to become the Town of Sainte-Marguerite–Estérel. On January 1, 2006, after a municipal referendum, the Town of Estérel was however re-established and the Town of Sainte-Marguerite–Estérel was renamed to its former name of Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Estérel had a population of 262 living in 153 of its 377 total private dwellings, a change of 33.7% from its 2016 population of 196. With a land area of 12.62 km (4.87 sq mi), it had a population density of 20.8/km (53.8/sq mi) in 2021.
Population trend:
- Population in 2021: 262 (2016 to 2021 population change: 33.7%)
- Population in 2016: 196
- Population in 2011: 199
- Population in 2006: 256
- 2001 to 2006 population change: 41.4%
- Population in 2001: 181
- Population in 1996: 108
- Population in 1991: 119
Mother tongue:
- English as first language: 17%
- French as first language: 75.5%
- English and French as first language: 3.8%
- Other as first language: 5.7%
See also
References
- ^ "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 388481". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
- ^ "Répertoire des municipalités: Geographic code 77011". www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.
- ^ "Tableau de profil, Profil du recensement, Recensement de la population de 2021". 9 February 2022.
- ^ "Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson (Ville)" (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec. Archived from the original on 2009-04-11. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
- ^ "Estérel (Ville)" (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec. Archived from the original on 2015-07-21. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
- ^ "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Quebec". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
- ^ Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2021 census
External links
- Media related to Estérel, Quebec at Wikimedia Commons