Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage
Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage is a parish municipality in La Mitis Regional County Municipality, in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada.
It is located 5 km south-east of Mont-Joli, in the Matapédia River Valley. The village is 350 km north east of Québec city and 360 km west of Gaspé. The nearest towns are Mont-Joli, and Rimouski, the latter of which lies 40 km to the south-east.
Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage takes its name from the colonial lordship, the Seigneurie Lepage-et-Thibierge, which was the early governing authority in the area. Its 500 residents work largely in agriculture and forestry.
The ecclesiastical parish of the same name is in the Archdiocese of Rimouski.
History
The territory occupied by the parish municipality of Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage was first granted to Gabriel Thivierge and Louis Lepage and became known as the seigneury of Lepage-et-Thivierge. Later, this seigneury became the Seignory of Rimouski, which for a long time belonged to the Lepage family. The parish of Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage was canonically erected on 21 April 1873. The municipality of Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage was officially created on 29 September 1873, by a detachment from Sainte-Flavie. The presbytery was built in 1873, and the wooden church was built in 1875. The caisse populaire was founded on March 7, 1940.Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage 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.Private dwellings : 223
Languages:
- French as first language: 98.3%
- English as first language: 0.8%