Saint-Godefroi (; formerly spelled as Saint-Godefroy) is a
township municipality in the
Canadian province
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of
Quebec
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, located within the
Bonaventure Regional County Municipality. The township had a population of 350 in the
2021 Canadian census
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.
It is situated on the north shore of
Chaleur Bay along
Quebec Route 132
Route 132 is the longest highway in Quebec. It follows the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River from the border with the state of New York (state), New York in the hamlet of Dundee, Quebec, Dundee (connecting with New York State Route 3 ...
. In addition to Saint-Godefroi itself, the township also includes the community of Kelly ().
History
Settlement began in the mid-19th century, and in 1873 the Parish of Saint-Godefroi was founded, named in honour of Charles-Godefroi Fournier (1829-1902), priest and founder of the parish. In 1889, its post office opened under the name of Saint-Godfroy.
On December 16, 1913, the Township Municipality of Saint-Godefroy was created when the
Township Municipality of Hope was divided in two. In 1924, Saint-Godefroy lost more than half its area when the Municipality of
Shigawake was formed.
In 1940, the spelling of the post office name was adjusted to Saint-Godefroi, while the township's name was not corrected until much later (the 1981 census was the last census to use the spelling "Saint-Godefroy*).
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Saint-Godefroi 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.
[
Mother tongue (2021):][
* English as first language: 10.0%
* French as first language: 87.1%
* English and French as first language: 1.4%
* Other as first language: 1.4%
]
Local government
List of former mayors:
* Réginald Joseph (...–2005)
* Gérard-Raymond Blais (2005–2017)
* Grenade Grenier (2017–2022)
* Gérard Litalien (2022–present)
See also
* List of anglophone communities in Quebec
*List of township municipalities in Quebec
This is a list of municipalities that have the Quebec municipal type township municipality, an administrative division defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy.
Township municipalities
(area is in km², populati ...
References
External links
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Township municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine