Lac-Poulin, Quebec

Village municipality in Quebec, Canada

46°06′N 70°49′W / 46.100°N 70.817°W / 46.100; -70.817^[1]Country

CanadaProvince

QuebecRegionChaudière-AppalachesRCMBeauce-SartiganConstitutedMarch 5, 1959Government

^[2]

• MayorDenis Drouin • Federal ridingBeauce • Prov. ridingBeauce-SudArea

^[2]^[3]

• Total1.60 km² (0.62 sq mi) • Land0.88 km² (0.34 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[3]

• Total171 • Density195.3/km² (506/sq mi) • Pop 2016-2021

16.3% • Dwellings

154Time zoneUTC−5 (EST) • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)Postal code(s)

G0M 1P0

Area code(s)418 and 581HighwaysNo major routesCensus profile[1]^[3]MAMROT info29095^[2]Toponymie info33285^[1]Websitewww.lacpoulin.ca

Lac-Poulin is a village in the Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population was 171 as of 2021. Lac-Poulin is an enclave of Saint-Benoît-Labre.

Lac-Poulin is named after the lake it surrounds (Poulin), which was named after the first settler Claude Poulin. The first settlers Claude Poulin (1614-1687), a carpenter, was born in St Maclou, Rouen, Normandie, France and his wife Jeanne Mercier (1621-1687) was born in Luçon, Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France. Poulin is a common last name in the region. The village is mainly a summer vacation site.

History

Lac-Poulin was created in 1959 when it split away from Saint-Benoit-Labre.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lac-Poulin had a population of 171 living in 75 of its 154 total private dwellings, a change of 16.3% from its 2016 population of 147. With a land area of 0.88 km² (0.34 sq mi), it had a population density of 194.3/km² (503.3/sq mi) in 2021.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 33285". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Répertoire des municipalités: Geographic code 29095". www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Tableau de profil, Profil du recensement, Recensement de la population de 2021". 9 February 2022.
^ "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Quebec". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved August 28, 2022.