It is named after Édouard-Charles Fabre.

In addition to the main namesake population centre, the municipality also includes the hamlet of Fabre-Station and the community of Pointe-Martel.

History

In the 17th century, a fur trading post was established on the eastern shore of Lake Temiskaming, 18 kilometres (11 mi) south of Ville-Marie. It was an important French-Canadian post, operating for almost two centuries.

In 1870, the first settler arrived there and cleared the first land for agriculture in the Témiscamingue region. At the end of that century, mining prospectors arrived and discovered copper, cobalt, nickel, and silver deposits, resulting in a brief mining boom (that ended in 1904 when larger deposits were found in Cobalt, Ontario).

In 1899, the parish of Saint-Édouard was founded, named after Édouard-Charles Fabre. In 1904, the Township Municipality of Fabre was established, which was dissolved in 1912, when it was divided into the Parish Municipalities of Saint-Édouard-de-Fabre and Saint-Placide.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Édouard-de-Fabre had a population of 671 living in 287 of its 320 total private dwellings, a change of 6.8% from its 2016 population of 628. With a land area of 190.29 km (73.47 sq mi), it had a population density of 3.5/km (9.1/sq mi) in 2021.

Mother tongue (2021):

• English as first language: 2.2%
• French as first language: 97.0%
• English and French as first language: 0%
• Other as first language: 1.5%

Local government

List of former mayors:

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (December 2023)

• Serge Marcil (...–2009?)
• Réjean Drouin (2009?–2011)
• Claudine Laforge Clouâtre (2011–2013)
• Mario Drouin (2013–present)

See also

• List of parish municipalities in Quebec