Belcourt, Quebec
Municipality in Quebec, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Belcourt is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality.
Belcourt | |
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 Location within La Vallée-de-l'Or RCM | |
  Belcourt Location in province of Quebec | |
| Coordinates: 48°24′N 77°21′W[1] | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Abitibi-Témiscamingue |
| RCM | La Vallée-de-l'Or |
| Settled | 1915 |
| Constituted | October 24, 1918 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Guylaine Labbée |
| • Federal riding | Abitibi—Baie-James— Nunavik—Eeyou |
| • Prov. riding | Abitibi-Est |
| Area | |
| • Total | 423.85 km2 (163.65 sq mi) |
| • Land | 409.74 km2 (158.20 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[3] | |
| • Total | 219 |
| • Density | 0.5/km2 (1/sq mi) |
| • Pop (2016-21) |  2.7% |
| • Dwellings | 120 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area code | 819 |
| Highways |  R-386 |
| Website | munbelcourt |
Its economy depends on forestry, as well as businesses and industries in Senneterre.[4]
Following the construction of the National Transcontinental Railway, the area opened up for colonization. The new settlement was originally called Café or Coffee, taken from the railway station name, but renamed to Goulet, after the first permanent settler, Louis Goulet. In 1915, he arrived with his family and employees, 68 people in all, to operate a sawmill that he had built on the banks of the Taschereau River, between Carpentier and Courville Lakes.[1][4]
In 1918, the place was incorporated as the United Township Municipality of Carpentier-et-Courville, but the settlement continued to be called Goulet. Since there already was a Goulet Post Office in Bellechasse County, it was renamed to Belcourt in 1927, in honour of Napoléon-Antoine Belcourt (1860-1932). In 1958, the municipality was also renamed and changed statutes at the same time to become the Municipality of Belcourt.[1][4]
In 1962, it lost part of its territory when the Municipality of Champneuf was created.[5]
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Private dwellings occupied by usual residents (2021): 114 (total dwellings: 120)[3]
Mother tongue (2021):[3]
- English as first language: 2 %
- French as first language: 98 %
- English and French as first language: 0 %
- Other as first language: 0 %
List of former mayors:[4]
- Alphonse Vézina (1924)
- Francis Simard (1925)
- Roméo Castonguay (1927)
- Albéric Trempe (1927–1933)
- Alfred Goulet (1933–1937)
- William Abel (1937–1939)
- Sylva St-Amant (1939–1945)
- Émile Garneau (1945–1957, 1963–1965, 1969–1972)
- Raoul Roy (1957–1959)
- Roger Langlois (1959–1963)
- Irenée Lizotte (1965–1969)
- Gaston Labbée (1972–1975)
- Roger Fairfield (1975–1981)
- Jacqueline Goulet (1981–1985)
- Marcel Vaillancourt (1985–1997)
- Michel Lahaie (1997–2005)
- Carol Nolet (2005–2021)
- Guylaine Labbée (2021–present)
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