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Saint-Octave-de-Métis is a parish municipality in Quebec, Canada.

Saint-Octave-de-Métis
Parish municipality
Church in Saint-Octave-de-Métis
Location within La Mitis RCM
St-Octave-de-Métis Location in eastern Quebec
Coordinates: 48.6009025°N 68.0808572°W / 48.6009025; -68.0808572[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Bas-Saint-Laurent
RCM	La Mitis
Constituted	April 25, 1908
Government [2]
• Mayor	Mylène-Julie Lavoie
• Federal riding	Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia
• Prov. riding	Matane-Matapédia
Area [2][3]
• Total	75.20 km2 (29.03 sq mi)
• Land	75.16 km2 (29.02 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[3]
• Total	493
• Density	6.6/km2 (17/sq mi)
• Pop 2016-2021	3.5%
• Dwellings	221
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0J 3B0
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Highways	Route 234
Website	municipalites-du-quebec.org/st-octave-de-metis/

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Octave-de-Métis had a population of 493 living in 207 of its 221 total private dwellings, a change of -3.5% from its 2016 population of 511. With a land area of 75.16 km² (29.02 sq mi), it had a population density of 6.6/km² (17.0/sq mi) in 2021.[4]

Notable people

• Jules-André Brillant, born 1888, baptized and educated in Saint-Octave-de-Métis, French Canadian entrepreneur
• Hormisdas Langlais, born 1890, Canadian politician and a seven-term Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec
• Marguerite Ruest-Pitre, born 1908, Canadian murderer also known as "Madame le Corbeau", last woman criminal executed in Canada (1953)
• Marie-Thérèse Fortin, born 1959, Canadian actress
• Anaïs Favron, born 1977, radio and TV host, actress, and improviser

See also

• List of parish municipalities in Quebec

References

External links

• Media related to Saint-Octave-de-Métis at Wikimedia Commons

На других языках

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- [en] Saint-Octave-de-Métis, Quebec

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[fr] Saint-Octave-de-Métis

Saint-Octave-de-Métis, aussi appelée simplement Saint-Octave, est une municipalité de paroisse de la province de Québec, au Canada, située dans la municipalité régionale de comté de La Mitis, au Bas-Saint-Laurent[1]. La population de la municipalité est d'un peu plus de 500 habitants.

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