Landrienne
Landrienne is a township municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the Abitibi Regional County Municipality. It is part of the census agglomeration of Amos.
Originally known as Saint-Barnabé-de-Landrienne, the place was named in honour of Jean-Marie Landriève Des Bordes, a French naval officer and administrative inspector.
Since its creation in 1918, several businesses were established in Landrienne, thus contributing to the economic development of the municipality.
History
Landrienne was created in 1918 by a contingent of pioneers, who came mainly from Sainte-Thècle and Saint-Prosper, settled along the Transcontinental railroad, in an area 12 km east of the town of Amos and north of La Corne.In 1926, a large section of Landrienne was taken for the creation of the municipality of Saint-Marc-de-Figuery.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Landrienne 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.The mother tongues are:
- English as first language: 0.6%
- French as first language: 98.3%
- English and French as first language: 0.6%
- Other as first language: 0.6%
Government