Saint-Anicet is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality ...

Le Haut-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality Le Haut-Saint-Laurent ''(Upper Saint Lawrence)'' is a regional county municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Montérégie region. Its seat is in Huntingdon, Quebec, Huntingdon and it is named for the Saint Lawrence River which forms i ...

in the

Montérégie Montérégie () is an administrative region in the southwest part of Quebec. It includes the cities of Boucherville, Brossard, Châteauguay, Longueuil, Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield and Vaudreuil-Dorion. ...

administrative region of

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Government of Canada, 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 ...

. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 2,523.

Geography

Saint-Anicet is located in the southwestern

region of Quebec, on the south shore of the

Saint Lawrence River The St. Lawrence River (french: Fleuve Saint-Laurent, ) is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. Its headwaters begin flowing from Lake Ontario in a (roughly) northeasterly direction, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, connecting ...

Communities

The following locations reside within the municipality's boundaries: *Cazaville () – a

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depi ...

in the southern portion of the municipality on Route 132. *Plage-Somerville () – a

located on Baie de Somerville in the

. *Pointe-Leblanc () – a

located along the

. *Port Lewis () – a

located along the

on Route 132.

Lakes and rivers

The following waterways pass through or are situated within the municipality's boundaries: *Rivière La Guerre () – runs in a southeast to northwest direction to the

Demographics

Population

Language

Historic site and museum

In the south of Saint-Anicet, the ''Tsiionhiakwatha/Droulers archaeological site interpretation center'' is where an important

Iroquoian The Iroquoian languages are a language family of indigenous peoples of North America. They are known for their general lack of labial consonants. The Iroquoian languages are polysynthetic and head-marking. As of 2020, all surviving Iroquoia ...

village in Quebec was located. Circa 1450, approximately 500 St.Lawrence Iroquoians established a village near the La Guerre River. The centre opened on May 15, 2010. Droulers-Tsiionhiakwatha was designated a ''Site du patrimoine constitué'' under provincial legislation in 2005, and a

National Historic Site of Canada National Historic Sites of Canada (french: Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) are places that have been designated by the federal Minister of the Environment on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada (HSMBC), as being ...

in 2007.

References

External links

* Virtual Museum of Canada
The St. Lawrence Iroquoians
— virtual exhibit about the St. Lawrence Iroquoian people, based on the archaeological excavations at the Droulers/Tsiionhiakwatha site. {{Authority control Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Le Haut-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality Quebec populated places on the Saint Lawrence River