Berthierville (; ) (also called Berthier-en-haut, and legally called Berthier before 1942) is a town located between
Montreal
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and
Trois-Rivières
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on the north shore of the
Saint Lawrence River
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in
Quebec
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, Canada. Berthierville is the seat of
D'Autray Regional County Municipality
D'Autray () is a regional county municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is Berthierville.
The municipality has a land area of 1,249.30 km2 and its population was 42,189 inhabitants as of the 2016 Census. Its lar ...
, and is served by
Autoroute 40, and is the junction of Routes
138 and
158. It is surrounded by the parish municipality of
Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier.
The
''Marie Reine du Canada'' Pilgrimage column stops at the church of Sainte-Geneviève de Berthierville for Mass on the first day of its three-day walk from
Lanoraie to
Cap-de-la-Madeleine
Cap-de-la-Madeleine () is a former city in Quebec, Canada at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice River and the St. Lawrence River. It was amalgamated into the City of Trois-Rivières in 2002. Population (2006 census) 33,022.
History
Cap- ...
.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Berthierville had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Population trend:
* Population in 2011: 4091 (2006 to 2011 population change: 2.1%)
* Population in 2006: 4007
* Population in 2001: 3939
* Population in 1996: 3952
* Population in 1991: 3854
Mother tongue:
* English as first language: 0.3%
* French as first language: 96.5%
* English and French as first language: 0.3%
* Other as first language: 3.0%
Education
, formerly the Commission scolaire des Samares, operates francophone public schools, including:
*
École secondaire Pierre-de-Lestage
* École du Chemin-du-Roy
** pavillon maternelle Sainte-Geneviève
** pavillon Sainte-Geneviève
** pavillon Saint-Joseph
* École de l'Île Saint-Ignace (currently in Berthierville)
The
Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board
The Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board (SWLSB, , CSSWL) is a school board headquartered in Rosemère, Quebec in Greater Montreal.
It officially came into existence in July 1998 when English-language schools from eight former school boards were amalg ...
operates anglophone public schools, including:
* Joliette Elementary School in
Saint-Charles-Borromée
*
Joliette High School
Joliette High School (JHS, ) is a public anglophone secondary school in Joliette, Quebec. Operated by the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board, it is the sole anglophone high school in Lanaudière. , it had about 265 students.
Attendance boundary
Ar ...
in
Joliette
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Joliette High School Zone Sec 1-5
." Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board
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It officially came into existence in July 1998 when English-language schools from eight former school boards were amalg ...
. Retrieved on September 5, 2017.
Notable people
* Alexis St. Martin, Gastrointestinal
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experimentation pioneer
* Gilles Villeneuve, Formula One
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race car driver
* Jacques Villeneuve (born 1953), Formula 1 driver
* Aristide Blais, Canadian Senator for Alberta
* Richard Landry, architect
See also
*List of cities in Quebec
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References
External links
*
Ville de Berthierville :: MRC de D'autray, Lanaudière
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Cities and towns in Quebec
Incorporated places in Lanaudière