Massueville


Massueville is a village municipality in Pierre-De Saurel Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada. The population as of the 2021 Canadian census was 547.
It is named after Gaspard-Aimé Massue, landowner. The village is an enclave within the Municipality of Saint-Aimé. It lies along the banks of the Yamaska River.
The core of the town is composed of several well kept heritage houses.
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History

In 1835, Gaspard-Aimé Massue, lord of the Bonsecours Seignory, donated land to the parish on which first a chapel was built that same year, followed by the church in 1841, and the original presbytery around 1850.
In 1903, the village was incorporated when it separated from the Parish Municipality of Saint-Aimé.
Massueville had a big fire near the church in an abandoned convent on 27 October 2006.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Massueville 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 :
  • English as first language: 0.9%
  • French as first language: 97.3%
  • Both English and French as first language: 0%
  • Other as first language: 0.9%

Local government

List of former mayors: