Lac-Saint-Joseph


Lac-Saint-Joseph is a town in Quebec, Canada, located on the namesake Saint-Joseph Lake.
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History

Saint-Joseph Lake was already shown and named on Champlain's map of 1632 and Sanson's map of 1656.
Initially a summer resort for residents from Quebec City, its post office opened in 1906 under the name Lake St. Joseph Hotel, renamed to Lac-Saint-Joseph in 1927. Real development of the town began when industrialist Thomas Maher obtained a land concession for logging and built a sawmill. Maher, one of the first residents, sold all the waterfront lots in the 1940s.
In 1936, the City of Lac-Saint-Joseph was created out of territory ceded by the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Catherine.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lac-Saint-Joseph 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 :
  • English as first language: 0%
  • French as first language: 98.4%
  • English and French as first language: 0%
  • Other as first language: 0%

Government

List of mayors

  • J. Gérald Coote, 1936
  • J. A. Saucier, 1936-1952
  • Henri Giguère, 1952-1961
  • Guy Desrivières, 1961-1967
  • Fernand Grenier, 1967-1974
  • J.-Arthur Bédard, 1974-1982
  • Raymond Blouin, 1982-1990 and 1994-2005
  • Robert Simard, 1990-1994
  • O'Donnell Bédard, 2005-
  • Michel Croteau, –2021
  • Yvan Côté, 2021–present

Political representation

Provincially it is part of the riding of La Peltrie. In the 2022 [Quebec general election] the incumbent MNA Éric Caire, of the Coalition Avenir Québec, was re-elected to represent the population of Lac-Saint-Joseph in the National Assembly of Quebec.
Federally, Lac-Saint-Joseph is part of the federal riding of Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier. In the 2021 Canadian federal election, the incumbent Joël Godin of the Conservative Party was re-elected to represent the population Lac-Saint-Joseph in the House of Commons of Canada.