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Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval is a city in La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. Its urban area is located in the hollow of the Montmorency River valley, northeast of Quebec City.
The city is named in honor of Brigid of Kildare as a recall the irish origin of the first settlers. The name Laval comes from the situation of Sainte-Brigitte in the seigneury of Beaupré, whose first owner was François de Laval, bishop of Quebec.




Demographics



In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval had a population of 8,468 living in 3,203 of its 3,343 total private dwellings, a change of 15.2% from its 2016 population of 7,348. With a land area of 108.42 km2 (41.86 sq mi), it had a population density of 78.1/km2 (202.3/sq mi) in 2021.
Mother tongue:

French as first language: 97.1%
English as first language: 0.8%
English and French as first language: 0.8%
Other as first language: 1.0%




Government



Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval forms part of the federal electoral district of Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier and has been represented by Joël Godin of the Conservative Party since 2015. Provincially, Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval is part of the Montmorency electoral district and is represented by Jean-François Simard of the Coalition Avenir Québec since 2018.




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2022 administration:

Mayor: France Fortier
District #1: Simon St-Hilaire
District #2: Guillaume Plamondon
District #3: Benjamin Dagar-Magnan (elected in 2023 by-election)
District #4: Mathieu Thomassin
District #5: Charles Morissette
District #6: Michèle Dufresne




See also


List of municipalities in Quebec




References






External links


Media related to Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval at Wikimedia Commons

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Kota Quebec
• Beton-Bazoches
• Villiers-sous-Grez
• Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval
• Rivière aux Pins (Montmorency River tributary)
• Montmorency (federal electoral district)
• Richelieu River (Montmorency River tributary)
• Municipal history of Quebec
• Rivière à l'Île
• 2024 Canadian electoral calendar
• Capitale-Nationale
• 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution
• Montmorency River