Plessisville, Quebec


Plessisville is a county seat of L'Érable Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada. Routes 116 and 165 go through it. The city is 185 km from Montreal and 95 km from Quebec City. The city has hosted an annual Maple festival since 1958, and the Institut québécois de l'érable is headquartered there. The production of maple syrup and maple products is a major industry in the entire area, even giving the regional county municipality its name.
The first person to permanently settle in the area was Jean-Baptiste Lafond, in 1835. First incorporated as the village of Somerset, the settlement was officially incorporated as the village of Plessisville in 1855 in honour of Monseigneur Octave Plessis, bishop of Quebec at the time. In 2024, the city and the parish merged to form the current city.

History

Plessisville was officially established on January 1, 2024, following the merger of the former city of Plessisville and the Plessisville, [Quebec |parish municipality of Plessisville].
Plessisville's history dates back to 1835, when its first resident, Jean-Baptiste Lafond, settled in the area. By 1845, the population had grown to approximately 143 people, making it the oldest municipality in the Bois-Francs region.
In 1885, a fire destroyed sixty homes, the foundry, the presbytery, and the church, marking a major turning point in its development.

Demographics

In the 2021 [Canadian census|2021 Census of Population] conducted by Statistics Canada, the merged city of Plessisville 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.

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