Portneuf is a municipality in the Portneuf Regional County Municipality, in the province of

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. It is located on the

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. The Portneuf River runs on the east side of the town centre. The town of Portneuf is named after a

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that was founded in 1636, and first settled in 1640. The municipal territory consists of 2 non-contiguous areas, separated by the municipality of Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne. The smaller northern portion is undeveloped, whereas the southern piece is the main inhabited part with the population centres of Portneuf (south of Autoroute 40), and the adjacent Notre-Dame-de-Portneuf, north of A-40. The present-day municipality was created in 2002, when the old city of Portneuf merged with the town of Notre-Dame-de-Portneuf. The town is located on the ''

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'', a historic segment of Quebec Route 138 that stretches from near

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. The town is also close by to A-40, where Provencher Street connects to the town at Exit 261. One of Portneuf's major employers is a local

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owned by Metro Paper Industries, a

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-based paper company. Paper had been a major part of Portneuf's development since the first paper mill opened in 1839.

History

In 1636, the area was granted by the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France as a seignory to Jacques Leneuf de La Poterie (1606-after 1685), who arrived in Quebec only some months later and became substitute governor of Trois-Rivières from 1645 to 1662. The first colonizers came around 1640 and settled at the mouth of the "Port Neuf" River (meaning new harbour). In 1817, the Portneuf post office opened. In 1861, the Parish of Notre-Dame-de-Portneuf was formed, and two years later in 1863, it was incorporated as a parish municipality. In 1896, it lost a large portion of its territory when the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Christine was formed. In 1914, the village centre itself separated from the Parish Municipality of Notre-Dame-de-Portneuf and was incorporated as the Village Municipality of Notre-Dame-de-Portneuf. In 1961, this latter one changed status and abbreviated its name, becoming the City of Portneuf. On July 4, 2002, the parish municipality was amalgamated into the new City of Portneuf.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Portneuf 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:Statistics Canada:

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census * Population in 2011: 3107 (2006 to 2011 population change: 0.7%) * Population in 2006: 3086 * Population total in 2001: 3095 ** Notre-Dame-de-Portneuf (parish): 1659 ** Portneuf (ville): 1436 * Population in 1996: ** Notre-Dame-de-Portneuf (parish): 1727 ** Portneuf (ville): 1470 * Population in 1991: ** Notre-Dame-de-Portneuf (parish): 1675 ** Portneuf (ville): 1394 Mother tongue: * English as first language: 0.8% * French as first language: 97.2% * English and French as first language: 0.3% * Other as first language: 1.6%

Image gallery

Octobre 2003-Portneuf 003.jpg, Old inn in Portneuf Église Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs.jpg, Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs Church

References

External links

Municipality of Portneuf

Portneuf RCM: Info about Portneuf

photo-portneuf.com: Photos of Portneuf and nearby communities
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