Béarn, Quebec


Béarn is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality.
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History

Settlement of the area began at the end of the 19th century. It was first incorporated as the Parish Municipality of Saint-Placide in 1913, taking its name from the parish that was founded two years earlier.
In 1923, the railroad was built and the place began to be known as Béarn. Its post office opened in 1941. Because it was known as Béarn in common use, the name was changed in 1956 to Saint-Placide-de-Béarn, and in 1983, it changed status to municipality and the name was shortened to the current name.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Béarn 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.
Mother tongue language
LanguagePopulationPct
French only67094.4%
English only152.1%
Both English and French50.7%
Other languages152.1%

Government

List of former mayors: