Saint-Liboire is a municipality in the municipalité régionale de comté

Regional county municipality

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 des Maskoutains

Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality, Quebec

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 in Québec

Quebec

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 (Canada

Canada

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), located in the administrative region of Montérégie

Montérégie

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. The population as of the Canada 2006 Census

Canada 2006 Census

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 was 2,895.

History

Before the foundation of Saint-Liboire, the actual town territory was included in the Seigneurie de Ramezay

Seigneurial system of New France

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 given to Claude de Ramezay

Claude de Ramezay

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 near 1710.

The village

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 was founded in 1857 with the purpose to offer more arable lands to the Catholic colonists coming from the Saint-Hyacinthe region.

It became the chief town of Bagot County.

Reading Suggestion

Historian

Historian

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s will be fascinated by the book Centenaire de Saint-Liboire, 20-24 juin 1957 : album-souvenir, 1857-1957 written by Dollard Boucher and Armand Laliberté. This book is available at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec

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Population

Population trend

Census	Population	Change (%)
2006	2,895	2.3%
2001	2,829	9.1%
1996	2,594	13.4%
1991	2,287	N/A

Language

Mother tongue language (2006)

Language	Population	Pct (%)
French only	2,870	98.46%
English only	15	0.51%
Both English and French	0	0.00%
Other languages	30	1.03%

External links

• KMZ File working with Google Earth
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• Informations on Saint-Liboire
• Details on the town
• Photos of the Saint-Patrice Street (July 2003), Patrice Marcotte
• Page on Quebec Municipal