Saint-Pie () is a city 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. ...

region of southwest

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. The population as of the

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was 5,847. Saint-Pie is best known for its furniture industry. It is also sometimes nicknamed the “Furniture Capital of Quebec”. The city is named after

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, pope from 1566 to 1572, notable for his role in the

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, the

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, and the standardization of the

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within the

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, known as

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. The former parish municipality of Saint-Pie was amalgamated into the City of Saint-Pie on February 28, 2003.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Saint-Pie 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.

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AllRefer.com entry

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