Country Canada RCM La Mitis Boroughs MacNider Area 263.7 km² Local time Thursday 12:11 PM | Region Bas-Saint-Laurent Constituted July 4, 2002 Time zone EST (UTC−5) Population 664 (2011) Province Québec | |
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Métis-sur-Mer is a city in the La Mitis Regional County Municipality within the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. It had a population of 607 in the Canada 2011 Census.
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Etymology
The name "Métis" is said to come from a Mi'kmaq word meaning "meeting place"; "sur-mer" refers to its location on the Saint Lawrence River.
History
From 1818, John MacNider, the British Seigneur of Métis started settling the area with Scottish immigrants.
The city has a borough named MacNider, named for John MacNiders family, whose territory corresponds to the former (pre-merger) village municipality of Métis-sur-Mer.
On July 4, 2002, the village of Métis-sur-Mer and the municipality of Les Boules merged to form the city of Métis-sur-Mer.
Demographics
In the 2011 Census, Statistics Canada originally reported that Métis-sur-Mer had a population of 644 living in 298 of its 427 total dwellings, a 6.6% change from its 2006 population of 604. Statistics Canada subsequently amended the 2011 census results to a population of 607 living in 288 of its 417 total dwellings, a 0.5% change from 2006. With a land area of 48.63 km2 (18.78 sq mi), it had a population density of 12.482/km2 (32.328/sq mi) in 2011.