Auclair, Quebec

Auclair is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the Témiscouata Regional County Municipality. The municipality had a population of 447 as of the Canada [2021 Census].

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History

On 28 April 1917, the canton of Auclair was proclaimed.
In 1931, the Saint-Émile mission was founded. Parish registers were opened on 13 January 1932. That same year, the first chapel was built. On 6 June 1941, the parish of Saint-Émile d'Auclair was canonically erected. The first parish priest was Camille Lachance in 1944. In 1954, the municipality of Auclair was officially founded.
In 2014, Auclair is one of the host communities for the Fifth Acadian World Congress.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Auclair had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.