Saint-Félix-de-Valois, Quebec

Saint-Félix-de-Valois is a municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Matawinie Regional County Municipality.

Saint-Félix-de-Valois
Municipality
The Emery Mill on the Bayonne River
Location within Matawinie RCM
Saint-Félix-de-Valois
Location in central Quebec
Coordinates: 46°10′N 73°26′W[1]
Country Canada
Province Quebec
RegionLanaudière
RCMMatawinie
Settledc. 1830
ConstitutedDecember 24, 1997
Government
 • MayorAudrey Boisjoly
 • Federal ridingJoliette
 • Prov. ridingBerthier
Area
 • Total89.80 km2 (34.67 sq mi)
 • Land87.87 km2 (33.93 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[3]
 • Total6,029
 • Density68.6/km2 (178/sq mi)
 • Pop 2006-2011
 4.8%
 • Dwellings
2,749
Time zoneUTC−5 (EST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)
J0K 2M0
Area code(s)450 and 579
Highways Route 131
Route 348
Websitewww.st-felix-de-valois.com

Quebec author Réjean Ducharme, recipient of several Governor General's Awards, was born in Saint-Félix-de-Valois in 1942.

History

Historically it was part of the Berthier Seignory. Circa 1830, a small group of pioneers from England, Scotland, and Ireland started to colonize the place. In 1840, the Mission of Saint-Félix-de-Valois was formed and soon after in 1844 it became a parish when it separated from the Sainte-Élisabeth Parish. It was named after Felix of Valois.[1]

In 1845, the Parish Municipality of Saint-Félix-de-Valois was first established, but abolished two years later. In 1851, its post office opened. In 1855, the parish municipality was reestablished.[1]

In 1926, the main village, also known as Saint-Félix-de-Valois, was incorporated as a separate Village Municipality. On December 24, 1997, the parish municipality and the village municipality were reunited into the new Municipality of Saint-Félix-de-Valois.[1]

Demographics

Population
Historical Census Data - Saint-Félix-de-Valois, Quebec[4]
YearPop.±%
1991 5,132—    
1996 5,442+6.0%
2001 5,465+0.4%
2006 5,755+5.3%
2011 6,029+4.8%

Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 2548 (total dwellings: 2749)

Language

Mother tongue:

  • English as first language: 0.5%
  • French as first language: 98.2%
  • English and French as first language: 0.3%
  • Other as first language: 1%

Education

Commission scolaire des Samares is the French school board.

  • École secondaire de l'Érablière
  • École des Moulins (Saint-Félix-de-Valois)
    • pavillon Notre-Dame[5]
    • pavillon Sainte-Marguerite[6]

Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board serves as the English school board.[7]

Notable residents
gollark: Oh, those work fine, sure.
gollark: There was also a project for patching firmware for the built-in WiFi chipset of said other thing to allow monitor mode stuff. Unfortunately, this shipped with its own several year outdated gcc binaries and plugin for incomprehensible reasons?
gollark: Then, I just gave up and compiled it on my other thing with an older kernel, where it eventually worked.
gollark: I decided to look at the code in more detail. This was a mistake. It contained thousands of lines with minimally useful comments, for some reason its own implementation of hash tables (this is very C, I suppose), and apparently its own implementation of WiFi mesh things even though that should really be handled generically for any device.
gollark: After I was able to work through git's terrible CLI enough to make that work, and "fixed" some merge conflicts, it somehow compiled still, but upon plugging in the thing, hung things again. I had dmesg open, and apparently it was a page fault somehow in the code assigning names or something?

See also

References
  1. "Saint-Félix-de-Valois (Municipalité)" (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec. Retrieved 2009-11-17.
  2. Geographic code 62007 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (in French)
  3. Statistics Canada 2011 Census - Saint-Félix-de-Valois census profile
  4. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census
  5. "des Moulins (pavillon Notre-Dame)." Commission scolaire des Samares. Retrieved on September 22, 2017.
  6. "des Moulins (pavillon Sainte-Marguerite)." Commission scolaire des Samares. Retrieved on September 22, 2017.
  7. "Ward #10." Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. Retrieved on July 31, 2015.
  8. "JOLIETTE ELEMENTARY ZONE." Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. Retrieved on September 17, 2017.
  9. "Joliette High School Zone Sec 1-5." Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. Retrieved on September 5, 2017.
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