Saint-Prime () 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' ...
in
Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...
, Canada, located within the
regional county municipality
The term regional county municipality or RCM (, , 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 regional municipality.
Regional county municipalit ...
of
Le Domaine-du-Roy
Le Domaine-du-Roy (, ) is a regional county municipality in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is in Roberval, Quebec, Roberval, and it is named for the King of France, who owned the land at the time of the colonization ...
. The municipality had a population of 2,760 as of the
Canada 2021 Census
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canada, Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, whic ...
, and a land area of 147.16 km
2.
Geography
Climate
Saint-Prime has a
humid continental climate
A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold ...
that is some way above the subarctic classification due to its warm summers. Winters, however, are very cold and the seasonal differences are severe, although not extreme by Canadian or Quebec standards. Precipitation levels are high, bringing much snowfall in winter, but are by no means extreme compared to adjacent areas.
Demographics
Population trend:
[Statistics Canada: ]1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
* January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
, 2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
, 2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
Events
January
* January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute.
* January 12 – A stampede during t ...
, 2011
The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
, 2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
, 2021
Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
census
* Population in 2021: 2,760 (2016 to 2021 population change: 0.3%)
* Population in 2016: 2,753
* Population in 2011: 2,758
* Population in 2006: 2,661
* Population in 2001: 2,702
* Population in 1996: 2,685
* Population in 1991: 2,522
* Population in 1986: 2,499
* Population in 1981: 2,522
* Population in 1976: 2,266
* Population in 1971: 2,350
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 1,178 (total dwellings: 1,304)
Mother tongue:
* English as first language: 0.4%
* French as first language: 98.4%
* English and French as first language: 0.2%
* Other as first language: 1.1%
See also
*
Le Domaine-du-Roy Regional County Municipality
*
Lac Saint-Jean
Lac Saint-Jean (, ) is a large, relatively shallow lake in south-central Quebec, Canada, in the Laurentian Highlands. It is situated north of the Saint Lawrence River, into which it drains via the Saguenay River. It covers an area of , and is ...
, a waterbody
*
Rivière à l'Ours (Ashuapmushuan River) Rivière à l'Ours may refer to:
* Rivière à l'Ours (Témiscamingue), a tributary of the Ottawa River in Les Lacs-du-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada
* Rivière à l'Ours (rivière des Aulnaies), a tributary of rivière des Aulnaies in Saint-Ambroi ...
*
Rivière du Castor (rivière à l'Ours)
*
Ovide River
The Ovide River is a tributary of rivière à l'Ours (Ashuapmushuan River tributary), rivière à l'Ours, flowing successively in the unorganized territory of Lac-Ashuapmushuan, Quebec, Lac-Ashuapmushuan, in the municipalities of Sainte-Hedwidge, ...
*
Rivière aux Iroquois
*
Rivière à la Chasse (lac Saint-Jean)
References
External links
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Municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean
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