Lac-Sergent
Lac-Sergent is a village surrounding Sergent Lake in Portneuf Regional County Municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec. It is about north-west of Quebec City.
History
Farmers and summer visitors started coming to the area in the last decade of the 19th century. The place and namesake lake were possibly named after an old sergeant who once lived on the shores of the lake. Another theory claims that its name is a phonic corruption of the word serre-joint, French for clamp, since the lake's shape vaguely resembles this tool.The Parish of Notre-Dame-du-Lac-Sergent was formed sometime after 1890. Its post office opened in 1909. In 1921, the Town of Lac-Sergent was created out of territory ceded by Saint-Raymond and Sainte-Catherine-de-Fossambault.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lac-Sergent 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: 0.9%
- French as first language: 96.3%
- English and French as first languages: 1.9%
- Other as first language: 0%
Government
List of former mayors:- Charles-Eugène Côté
- Fortunat Gingras
- J.-Émilius Garon
- Célestin Côté
- Robert Côté
- Lucien Plamondon
- Germain Gastonguay
- A.-Frédéric Mercier
- J.-Arthur Verrault
- Émile Dion
- J.-François Pinet
- H.-Paul Cantin
- Zéphirin A. Paquet
- François Desrochers
- Laurent Langlois
- Yvan Pacaud
- Jacques Pinet
- Guy Beaudoin
- Denis Racine
- René-Jean Pagé
- Yves Bédard