Saint-Antonin () is a

city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

in the

Bas-Saint-Laurent The Bas-Saint-Laurent (Lower Saint-Lawrence), is an administrative region of Quebec located along the south shore of the lower Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The river widens at this place, later becoming a bay that discharges into the Atlanti ...

region of

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

, Canada, a few kilometres south of the city of

Rivière-du-Loup Rivière-du-Loup (; 2021 population 20,118) is a small city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The city is the seat for the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and the judicial district of Kamouraska. Its one of ...

, in

Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality Rivière-du-Loup is a regional county municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. Its most important city is Rivière-du-Loup, which contains more than half of the population. Major industries include pulp and paper, other wo ...

. The municipality is named after Louis-Antonin or Antoine Proulx (1810-1896), priest of Fraserville (Rivière-du-Loup) and was founded in 1856. On November 1, 2014, Saint-Antonin was changed from a parish municipality to a (regular) municipality.

Demographics

Population trend: * Population in 2021: 4,338 (2016 to 2021 population change: 7.1%) * Population in 2016: 4,049 * Population in 2011: 4,027 * Population in 2006: 3,780 * Population in 2001: 3,395 * Population in 1996: 3,368 Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 1,889 (total dwellings: 1,990) Mother tongue: * English as first language: 0.4% * French as first language: 99.5% * English and French as first language: 0.1% * Other as first language: 0.1%

Education

Centre de services scolaire de Kamouraska - Rivière-du-Loup Center or centre may refer to: Mathematics *Center (geometry), the middle of an object * Center (algebra), used in various contexts ** Center (group theory) ** Center (ring theory) * Graph center, the set of all vertices of minimum eccentricit ...

operates francophone public schools: * École Lanouette The

Eastern Shores School Board Eastern Shores School Board, or ESSB (French: ''Commission scolaire Eastern Shores'') is one of nine anglophone school boards in Quebec. ESSB is the largest anglophone school board in territory but the smallest anglophone school board in student p ...

operates anglophone public schools: * Metis Beach School in

Métis-sur-Mer 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 587 in the Canada 2016 Census. Etymology The name "Métis" is said to come from a Mi'kmaq word me ...

References

Répertoire des municipalités du QuébecCommission de toponymie du QuébecAffaires municipales et régions - cartes régionales

External links

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