Petit-Saguenay, Quebec
Encyclopedia
Petit-Saguenay is a municipality
in the Canadian
province of Quebec
, located in Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality
. The municipality, located on Route 170
near L'Anse-Saint-Jean
, had a population of 828 in the Canada 2001 Census
, which dropped to 780 in the 2006 census.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in the Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
province of Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, located in Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality
Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality, Quebec
Le Fjord-du-Saguenay is a Regional County Municipality in northeastern Quebec, Canada in the region of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean. The seat is in the City of Saguenay which is actually a separate census division. The RCM is named for the fjord part of the Saguenay River, protruding out of the...
. The municipality, located on Route 170
Quebec route 170
Route 170 is a major east/west highway on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, and it parallels the Saguenay River on the south side of it...
near L'Anse-Saint-Jean
L'Anse-Saint-Jean, Quebec
L'Anse-Saint-Jean is a small town, population 1269 , in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada.L'Anse-Saint-Jean was founded in 1838 by the Société des Vingt-et-un, a group of lumber prospectors and investors from Charlevoix which was responsible for opening up the Saguenay region to...
, had a population of 828 in the Canada 2001 Census
Canada 2001 Census
The Canada 2001 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population. Census day was May 15, 2001. On that day, Statistics Canada attempted to count every person in Canada. The total population count of Canada was 30,007,094. This was a 4% increase over 1996 Census of 28,846,761. In...
, which dropped to 780 in the 2006 census.