Country Canada Constituted January 1, 2006 Postal code(s) J0T 1E0 Area 16.2 km² Population 199 (2011) | Settled 1920s Time zone EST (UTC−5) Area code(s) 450 and 579 Province Québec Local time Wednesday 5:46 AM | |
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Weather 1°C, Wind SW at 6 km/h, 96% Humidity RCMs Laurentides, Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality | ||
Estérel is a city in Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada. The municipal territory almost entirely extends around Lake Masson, whereas the village itself is situated on the eastern shore of this lake.
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History
The area of Estérel was first part of the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson, which formed in the early 1860s.
Around 1920, Baron Louis Empain, son of Belgian industrialist Baron Édouard Empain, acquired substantially all the land around Lake Masson intending to build a resort called Estérel, named after the Esterel massif in Provence, south-east France. In 1939, the Estérel Post Office opened.
In 1958, Fridolin Simard, an industrialist from Abitibi, bought over 2000 hectares of the baron's estate and completed the holiday resort. A year later in 1959, The Town of Estérel was formed when it separated from Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson.
On October 10, 2001, the Town of Estérel and the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson were merged to become the Town of Sainte-Marguerite–Estérel. On January 1, 2006, after a municipal referendum, the Town of Estérel was however re-established and the Town of Sainte-Marguerite–Estérel was renamed to its former name of Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson.
Demographics
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Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 105 (total dwellings: 352)
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