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Sainte Mélanie, Quebec

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Country
  
Canada

Time zone
  
EST (UTC−5)

Area code(s)
  
450 and 579

Area
  
78.3 km²

Local time
  
Tuesday 11:12 PM

Constituted
  
July 1, 1855

Postal code(s)
  
J0K 3A0

Highways
  
Route 348

Population
  
2,892 (2011)

Province
  
Québec

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Weather
  
1°C, Wind NW at 8 km/h, 85% Humidity

RCMs
  
Lanaudière, Joliette Regional County Municipality

Sainte-Mélanie is a municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Joliette Regional County Municipality. It is located along the western shores of the L'Assomption River.

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Map of Sainte-M%C3%A9lanie, QC, Canada

History

Sainte-Mélanie was formerly part of the territory of the Ailleboust Seignory, granted to Jean d'Ailleboust d'Argenteuil (1694-1785) in 1736. By 1800, Pierre-Louis Panet (1761-1812) was Lord of Ailleboust, whose daughter Charlotte-Mélanie Panet (1794-1872) may have been the source of the name Sainte-Mélanie, also a reference to Melania the Younger (383-439). Charlotte-Mélanie's husband, Marc-Antoine-Louis Lévesque (1782-1833), donated the land in 1814 for a chapel that was eventually built in 1830. The Parish of Sainte-Mélanie was founded in 1832, and four years later in 1836, the post office opened under the name Daillebout.

The municipality officially started in 1845, was soon after abolished, and reestablished in 1855 as Sainte-Mélanie-d'Ailleboust. In 1881, the post office was renamed to Sainte-Mélanie, and more than a century later in 1986, the municipality followed suit by also adopting this shortened name.

Demographics

Population trend:

  • Population in 2011: 2892 (2006 to 2011 population change: 4.6%)
  • Population in 2006: 2765
  • Population in 2001: 2633
  • Population in 1996: 2474
  • Population in 1991: 2282

    • Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 1,221 (total dwellings: 1,404)

    Mother tongue:

  • English as first language: 0.9%
  • French as first language: 97.8%
  • English and French as first language: 0%
  • Other as first language: 1.3%

    • Notable people from Sainte-Mélanie

  • Aimé Pelletier (1914-2010), surgeon and well-known Quebec novelist, under the nom de plume of Bertrand Vac. Pelletier, who spent the majority of his professional career in Montreal, is interred with his ancestors at the Sainte-Mélanie cemetery.
  • Louise-Amélie Panet (1789-1862), artist and poet, wife of the seigneur of Ailleboust, died in Sainte-Mélanie; the public library there is named in her honor.

    • References

    Sainte-Mélanie, Quebec Wikipedia
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