Normandin is a city located on the west side of Lac Saint-Jean

Lac Saint-Jean

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 in the Canadian

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 province of Quebec

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Normandin is name after the surveyor

Surveying

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 Joseph-Laurent Normandin. Its history of European-Canadian settlement began in 1878 when the first pioneers arrived. Alphonse Laliberté was elected as Normandin's first mayor in 1890. In 1926, the village was set up as a municipality distinct from the township; the notary J.S.N. Turcotte occupied the function of first magistrate.

The city is the birthplace of André Dédé Fortin

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 (the late lead singer of Les Colocs

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), TV reporter Michel Laprise, and radio talk show psychiatrist Pierre Mailloux

Pierre Mailloux

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Demographics

Population trend:

• Population in 2006: 3220 (2001 to 2006 population change: -8.6 %)
• Population in 2001: 3524
• Population in 1996: 3873
• Population in 1991: 3957

Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 1356 (total dwellings: 1398)

Mother tongue:

• English as first language: 0 %
• French as first language: 99.7 %
• English and French as first language: 0 %
• Other as first language: 0.3 %

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