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Nédélec, Quebec

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Country
  
Canada

RCM
  
Témiscamingue

Constituted
  
February 1, 1909

Area
  
372.7 km²

Province
  
Québec

Region
  
Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Settled
  
1895

Named for
  
Jean-Marie Nédélec

Population
  
403 (2011)

Area code
  
819

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Nédélec is a township municipality in western Quebec, Canada, in the Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality.

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Name

The name of the municipality recalls the name of Jean-Marie Nédélec who was an oblate and a missionary with the Algonquins in the region. His last name is from the Breton word Nedeleg which means Christmas.

History

By 1895, a general store was supplying the many logging camps of the area. The first permanent settlers arrived in 1909, the same year the township and township municipality were formed. They were both named after Jean-Marie Nédélec (1834-1896) who was a missionary among the Algonquins of Lake Timiskaming and Lake Abitibi from 1867 to 1869 and from 1892 to 1896.

On October 7, 1995, the unorganized territory of Roulier, named after Ulric Roulier who was priest at Nédélec in the mid-1930s, was added to the municipality.

Demographics

Population trend:

  • Population in 2011: 403 (2006 to 2011 population change: -3.1 %)
  • Population in 2006: 416
  • Population in 2001: 429
  • Population in 1996: 474
  • Population in 1991: 524

    • Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 165 (total dwellings: 175)

    Mother tongue:

  • English as first language: 7.2%
  • French as first language: 83.1%
  • English and French as first language: 2.4%
  • Other as first language: 7.2%

    • References

    Nédélec, Quebec Wikipedia
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