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Belcourt, Quebec
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Belcourt |
| settlement_type | Municipality |
| image_skyline | Belcourt QC.JPG |
| flag_size | 120x100px |
| shield_size | 100x80px |
| image_map | Belcourt Quebec location diagram.png |
| map_caption | Location within La Vallée-de-l'Or RCM |
| pushpin_map | Canada Quebec |
| pushpin_label_position | top |
| pushpin_map_caption | Location in province of Quebec |
| coordinates | |
| coordinates_footnotes | |
| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_name | Canada |
| subdivision_type1 | Province |
| subdivision_name1 | Quebec |
| subdivision_type2 | Region |
| subdivision_name2 | Abitibi-Témiscamingue |
| subdivision_type3 | RCM |
| subdivision_name3 | La Vallée-de-l'Or |
| established_title | Settled |
| established_date | 1915 |
| established_title1 | Constituted |
| established_date1 | October 24, 1918 |
| government_footnotes | |
| leader_title | Mayor |
| leader_name | Lise Lafrance (2025) |
| leader_title1 | Federal riding |
| leader_name1 | Abitibi—Baie-James— |
| Nunavik—Eeyou | |
| leader_title2 | Prov. riding |
| leader_name2 | Abitibi-Est |
| area_footnotes | |
| area_total_km2 | 423.85 |
| area_land_km2 | 409.74 |
| population_footnotes | |
| population_total | 219 |
| population_as_of | 2021 |
| population_density_km2 | 0.5 |
| population_blank1_title | Pop (2016-21) |
| population_blank1 | 2.7% |
| population_blank2_title | Dwellings |
| population_blank2 | 120 |
| timezone | EST |
| utc_offset | −5 |
| timezone_DST | EDT |
| utc_offset_DST | −4 |
| postal_code_type | Postal code(s) |
| postal_code | J0Y 2M0 |
| area_code | 819 |
| blank_name | Highways |
| blank_info | |
| website |
Nunavik—Eeyou](abitibi-baie-james-nunavik-eeyou)
Belcourt () is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality.
Its economy depends on forestry, as well as businesses and industries in Senneterre.
History
Following the construction of the National Transcontinental Railway, the area opened up for colonization. The new settlement was originally called Café or Coffee, taken from the railway station name, but renamed to Goulet, after the first permanent settler, Louis Goulet. In 1915, he arrived with his family and employees, 68 people in all, to operate a sawmill that he had built on the banks of the Taschereau River, between Carpentier and Courville Lakes.
In 1918, the place was incorporated as the United Township Municipality of Carpentier-et-Courville, but the settlement continued to be called Goulet. Since there already was a Goulet Post Office in Bellechasse County, it was renamed to Belcourt in 1927, in honour of Napoléon-Antoine Belcourt (1860-1932). In 1958, the municipality was also renamed and changed statutes at the same time to become the Municipality of Belcourt.
In 1962, it lost part of its territory when the Municipality of Champneuf was created.
Demographics
| 1921 |297 | 1931 |527 | 1941 |546 | 1951 |460 | 1956 |495 | 1961 |544 | 1966 |450 | 1971 |387 | 1976 |375 | 1981 |395 | 1986 |345 | 1991 |292 | 1996 |285 | 2001 |272 | 2006 |256 | 2011 |239 | 2016 |225 | 2021 |219
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents (2021): 114 (total dwellings: 120)
Mother tongue (2021):
- English as first language: 2 %
- French as first language: 98 %
- English and French as first language: 0 %
- Other as first language: 0 %
Local government
List of former mayors:
- Alphonse Vézina (1924)
- Francis Simard (1925)
- Roméo Castonguay (1927)
- Albéric Trempe (1927–1933)
- Alfred Goulet (1933–1937)
- William Abel (1937–1939)
- Sylva St-Amant (1939–1945)
- Émile Garneau (1945–1957, 1963–1965, 1969–1972)
- Raoul Roy (1957–1959)
- Roger Langlois (1959–1963)
- Irenée Lizotte (1965–1969)
- Gaston Labbée (1972–1975)
- Roger Fairfield (1975–1981)
- Jacqueline Goulet (1981–1985)
- Marcel Vaillancourt (1985–1997)
- Michel Lahaie (1997–2005)
- Carol Nolet (2005–2021)
- Guylaine Labbée (2021–2025)
- Lise Lafrance (2025–present)
References
References
- {{mamrot. {{#property:P3856
- {{SCref. (2021)
- "Historique". Municipalité de Belcourt.
- "Belcourt (Municipalité)". Commission de toponymie du Québec.
- "Répertoire des entités géopolitiques: Champneuf (municipalité) 1.1.1964 - ...". Institut généalogique Drouin.
- [[Canada 1996 Census. 1996]], [[Canada 2001 Census. 2001]], [[Canada 2006 Census. 2006]], [[Canada 2011 Census. 2011]] census
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