La Durantaye, Quebec

La Durantaye is a parish municipality in the Bellechasse Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches administrative region of Quebec.
The municipality had a population of 782 in the Canada 2021 Census.

WWW munladurantaye.qc.ca

History

The municipality, along with Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse and Saint-Vallier, is located on the territory of the former fief of La Durantaye, granted in 1672 by Governor Frontenac to Olivier Morel de La Durantaye, then captain of the Carignan-Salières Regiment. The municipality was officially created in 1913 under the name of Saint-Gabriel-Archange. Three years later, the name was changed to La Durantaye.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, La Durantaye 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.