Stornoway, Quebec
Stornoway, French: Stornoway, Scottish Gaelic: Steòrnabhagh is a small village of 500 people. It is a municipality in Quebec, in the regional county municipality of Le Granit in the administrative region of Estrie. It is named after Stornoway, a burgh on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland by Colin Noble in 1852, replacing Bruceville.
It is at the intersection of two provincial highways, Route 108 and Route 161.
Demographics
| Year | 1861 | 1871 | 1881 | 1891 | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1941 | 1951 | 1956 | 1961 | 1966 | 1971 | 1976 | 1981 | 1986 | 1991 | 1996 | 2001 | 2006 | 2011 | 2016 | 2021 |
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| Population | 800 | 702 | 944 | 705 | 684 | 863 | 909 | 913 | 1009 | 920 | 887 | 826 | 744 | 671 | 588 | 571 | 543 | 546 | 564 | 606 | 584 | 559 | 530 | 535 |
External links
Media related to Stornoway, Quebec at Wikimedia Commons
Former official website of Stornoway: "Municipalité de Stornoway". 2013-01-01. Archived from the original on 2013-01-01. (in French)
- Legendre Mill
- Région du Lac-Mégantic (in French)
- Mégantic Region (in English)
- Stornoway (in French)
- Toponymy Commission of Quebec (in English)
- Affaires municipales et régions - cartes régionales (in French)