Saint-Ours, Quebec


Saint-Ours is a city located in the Pierre-De Saurel Regional County Municipality of Québec, in the administrative region of Montérégie. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 1,721. Founded in 1650 and originally constituent of the Saint-Ours Parish Municipality, which merged alongside L'Immaculée-Conception-de-Saint-Ours municipality in 1991, Saint-Ours is one of the earliest settlements in Montérégie. The city is named in honor of Pierre Roch de Saint-Ours, a captain of a company in the regiment of Carignan-Salières, sent by the king to come to the aid of the colonists of New France, in 1665. Pierre de Saint-Ours was the first lord of these lands.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Ours 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.
Population trend:
CensusPopulationChange
20111,721 1.2%
20061,700 4.7%
20011,624 0.3%
19961,619 0.6%
19911,628N/A

Mother tongue language
LanguagePopulationPct
French only1,65097.06%
English only251.47%
Both English and French00.00%
Other languages251.47%