Colombier is a
municipality in the
Canadian province
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of Quebec, located in the
Côte-Nord region and the
regional county municipality
The term regional county municipality or RCM (''french: municipalité régionale de comté, MRC'') is used in Quebec, Canada to refer to one of 87 county-like political entities. In some older English translations they were called county r ...
of
La Haute-Côte-Nord. It is located along
Route 138, about south-west of
Baie-Comeau.
It includes the population centres of (Sainte-Thérèse-de-) Colombier,
Les Îlets-Jérémie, and Saint-Marc-de-Latour.
History
While some logging took place in the middle of the 19th century, real impetus to its development was due to the economic crisis of the 1930s, when government authorities encouraged resettlement of the unemployed by opening the area for agriculture. In 1932, Saint-Marc-de-Latour was formed with the construction of a sawmill. In 1935, the Parish of Sainte-Thérèse-des-Colombiers was formed. Also that year, pioneers set up 20 camps and built the road along the
Saint Lawrence River. In 1937, the post office opened, then designated as Rivière-Colombier, named after the Colombier River, a tributary of the St. Lawrence that flows through the municipality.
In 1946, the Municipality of Colombier was formed, named after the river, which in turn was named after Charles-Roger des Colombiers (1628-1687), fur trader, citizen and alderman of Quebec, who had been granted a fief in that territory in 1677.
Demographics
Population trend:
[Statistics Canada: ]1996
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census
* Population in 2016: 685 (2011 to 2016 population change: -8.3%)
* Population in 2011: 747 (2006 to 2011 population change: -8.6%)
* Population in 2006: 817
* Population in 2001: 890
* Population in 1996: 947
* Population in 1991: 973
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 343 (total dwellings: 376)
Mother tongue:
* English as first language: 1.8%
* French as first language: 96.3%
* English and French as first language: 0%
* Other as first language: 1.8%
See also
*
List of municipalities in Quebec
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References
External links
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Municipalité de Colombier
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Municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Côte-Nord
La Haute-Côte-Nord Regional County Municipality