Saint-Étienne-des-Grès, Quebec

Saint-Étienne-des-Grès (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ netjɛn de gʁɛ]) is a parish municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada.

Saint-Étienne-des-Grès
Parish municipality
Saint-Étienne Church
Coat of arms
Motto:  Sub Pondere Virtus Crescit
Location within Maskinongé RCM.
Saint-Étienne-des-Grès Location in central Quebec.
Coordinates: 46°26′N 72°46′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Mauricie
RCM	Maskinongé
Constituted	April 14, 1859
Government [2]
• Mayor	Robert Landry
• Federal riding	Berthier—Maskinongé
• Prov. riding	Maskinongé
Area [2][3]
• Total	105.60 km2 (40.77 sq mi)
• Land	104.78 km2 (40.46 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[3]
• Total	4,217
• Density	40.2/km2 (104/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	8.7%
• Dwellings	1,788
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0X 2P0
Area code	819
Highways A-55	R-153
Website	www.mun-stedg.qc.ca

La Gabelle Power Station on the Saint-Maurice River.

Local points of interest include La Gabelle Generating Station, a power plant completed in 1924.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Étienne-des-Grès had a population of 4,539 living in 1,874 of its 1,945 total private dwellings, a change of -0% from its 2016 population of 4,541. With a land area of 104.54 km² (40.36 sq mi), it had a population density of 43.4/km² (112.5/sq mi) in 2021.^[4]

Government

The mayor is the municipality's highest elected official. Saint-Étienne-des-Grès has had thirty-one mayors.^[5]

#	Mayor	Took office	Left office
1	François Carbonneau	1855	1858
2	Luc Pellerin	1858	1862
3	François Dargis	1862	1867
4	Jean-Baptiste Beauchemin	1867	1867
5	Odilon Larcousière	1868	1869
6	Euchariste Grenier	1870	1870
7	Joseph Comeau	1870	1872
8	Uldoric Brunelle	1872	1874
9	Augustin Milette	1875	1877
10	Simon J. Remington	1877	1884
11	Joseph Ringuette	1884	1886
12	Uldoric Brunelle	1887	1900
13	Charles Milot	1901	1903
14	Étienne Laroche	1904	1907
15	François Chrétien [6]	1907	1910
16	Joseph-Edmond Lemire	1910	1914
17	François Chrétien	1914	1927
18	J.-Félix Saint-Onge	1927	1929
19	Joseph Marcotte	1929	1937
20	Anselme Bourassa	1937	1953
21	J.-Arthur Lemire	1953	1965
22	Louis-Philippe Plourde	1965	1967
23	Louis-Alphonse Bournival	1967	1968
24	J.-Arthur Lemire	1968	1973
25	Roger Bellemare	1973	1975
26	Joseph Duplessis	1975	1977
27	Jules Bellemare	1977	1989
28	François Chénier	1989	2001
29	Luc Massé	2001	2005
30	François Chénier	2005	2008 [7]
31	Robert Landry	2008 [8]	Current

Officially, municipal elections in Saint-Étienne-des-Grès are on a non-partisan basis.

See also

• La Gabelle Generating Station

References

1. "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 56460". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
2. "Répertoire des municipalités: Geographic code 51090". www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.
3. "Saint-Étienne-des-Grès, Quebec (Code 2451090) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada.
4. "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Quebec". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
5. Souvenances, Histoire du fief et de la paroisse de depuis 1673, page 191
6. Chrétien was the grandfather of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. See: Lawrence Martin, Chrétien, The Will to Win, Volume 1, page 12
7. Chénier resigned before the completion of his four-year term. See: Le maire Chénier claque la porte, Info 690, January 15, 2008
8. Robert Landry élu maire, Radio-Canada, April 25, 2008

External links

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