Sainte-Mélanie, Quebec
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Sainte-Mélanie is a municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Joliette Regional County Municipality. It is located along the western shores of the L'Assomption River.
History
Sainte-Mélanie was formerly part of the territory of the Ailleboust Seignory, granted to Jean d'Ailleboust d'Argenteuil (1694-1785) in 1736. By 1800, Pierre-Louis Panet (1761-1812) was Lord of Ailleboust, whose daughter Charlotte-Mélanie Panet (1794-1872) may have been the source of the name Sainte-Mélanie, also a reference to Melania the Younger (383-439). Charlotte-Mélanie's husband, Marc-Antoine-Louis Lévesque (1782-1833), donated the land in 1814 for a chapel that was eventually built in 1830. The Parish of Sainte-Mélanie was founded in 1832, and four years later in 1836, the post office opened under the name Daillebout.[4]
The municipality officially started in 1845, was soon after abolished, and reestablished in 1855 as Sainte-Mélanie-d'Ailleboust. In 1881, the post office was renamed to Sainte-Mélanie, and more than a century later in 1986, the municipality followed suit by also adopting this shortened name.[4]
Demographics
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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1991 | 2,282 | — |
1996 | 2,474 | +8.4% |
2001 | 2,633 | +6.4% |
2006 | 2,765 | +5.0% |
2011 | 2,892 | +4.6% |
2016 | 2,989 | +3.4% |
2021 | 3,250 | +8.7% |
Source: Statistics Canada[5] |
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 1,394 (total dwellings: 1,518)
Mother tongue:
- English as first language: 0.9%
- French as first language: 97.8%
- English and French as first language: 0%
- Other as first language: 1.3%
Education
Commission scolaire des Samares operates francophone public schools, including:
- École Sainte-Hélène[6]
The Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board operates anglophone public schools, including:
- Joliette Elementary School in Saint-Charles-Borromée[7]
- Joliette High School in Joliette[8]
Notable people from Sainte-Mélanie
- Aimé Pelletier (1914-2010), surgeon and well-known Quebec novelist, under the pen name of Bertrand Vac. Pelletier, who spent the majority of his professional career in Montreal, is interred with his ancestors at the Sainte-Mélanie cemetery.[9]
- Louise-Amélie Panet (1789-1862), artist and poet, wife of the seigneur of Ailleboust [fr], died in Sainte-Mélanie;[10] the public library there is named in her honour.[11]
See also
References
- ^ "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 278086". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
- ^ a b "Répertoire des municipalités: Geographic code 61050". www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.
- ^ a b Statistics Canada 2021 Census - Sainte-Mélanie census profile
- ^ a b "Sainte-Mélanie (Municipalité)" (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec. Retrieved 2009-10-07.
- ^ Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2021 census
- ^ "Sainte-Hélène." Commission scolaire des Samares. Retrieved on September 23, 2017.
- ^ "JOLIETTE ELEMENTARY ZONE." Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. Retrieved on September 17, 2017.
- ^ "Joliette High School Zone Sec 1-5." Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. Retrieved on September 5, 2017.
- ^ Obituary, Aimé (Bertrand Vac) Pelletier; www.inmemoriam.ca.
- ^ Karel, David (1992). Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord: peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, graveurs, photographes, et orfèvres (in French). Presses Université Laval. p. 610. ISBN 2763772358.
- ^ "La bibliothèque municipale Louise-Amélie-Panet" (in French). Municipalité de Sainte-Mélanie.
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