Saint-Tharcisius
Saint-Tharcisius is a parish municipality in Quebec, Canada.
The village was named after Roman martyr Tarcisius who preferred to be killed rather than desecrate the Eucharist in the 3rd century.
History
Saint-Tharcisius was created in 1937 from merging a section of Saint-Benoît-Joseph-Labre with territories hitherto devoid of municipal organisation. In 1965, a section of Saint-Tharcisius was taken for the creation of Saint-Alexandre-des-Lacs.Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Tharcisius 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 :
- English as first language: 0%
- French as first language: 100%
- English and French as first language: 0%
- Other as first language: 1.2%
Government
Municipal council :- Mayor: Renaud Arguin
- Councillors: Sophie Lapointe, Sylvie Simoneau, Michel Gagné, Micheline Jean, Donald Clément, Annie Jalbert