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Population trend:<ref>Statistics Canada: [[Canada 1996 Census|1996]], [[Canada 2001 Census|2001]], [[Canada 2006 Census|2006]], [[Canada 2011 Census|2011]], [[Canada 2016 Census|2016]], [[Canada 2021 Census|2021]] census</ref> |
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* Population in 2021: 489 (2016 to 2021 population change: -5%) |
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|title = {{Nowrap|Historical census populations –}} Péribonka |
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* Population in 2016: 515 |
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* Population in 2011: 464 |
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* Population in 2006: 541 |
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* Population in 2001: 538 |
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* Population in 1996: 588 |
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* Population in 1991: 635 |
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| 1911 |401 |
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* Population in 1986: 650 |
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| 1921 |889 |
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* Population in 1981: 675 |
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| 1931 |769 |
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* Population in 1976: 633 |
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| 1941 |674 |
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* Population in 1971: 780 |
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| 1951 |862 |
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* Population in 1966: 794 |
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| 1956 |894 |
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* Population in 1961: 891 |
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| 1961 |891 |
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* Population in 1956: 894 |
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| 1966 |794 |
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* Population in 1951: 862 |
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| 1971 |780 |
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* Population in 1941: 674 |
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| 1976 |633 |
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* Population in 1931: 769 |
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| 1981 |675 |
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* Population in 1921: 889 |
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| 1986 |650 |
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* Population in 1911: 401 |
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| 1991 |635 |
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| 1996 |588 |
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| 2001 |538 |
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| 2006 |541 |
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| 2011 |464 |
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| 2016 |515 |
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| 2021 |489 |
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Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 234 (total dwellings: 304) |
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 234 (total dwellings: 304) |
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Latest revision as of 16:54, 1 December 2025
Municipality in Quebec, Canada
Péribonka is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the Maria-Chapdelaine Regional County Municipality. It is situated at the mouth of the Peribonka River where it forms a bay on the north shore of Lac Saint-Jean.
Louis Hémon (1880-1913), a French writer, spent several months in Péribonka in 1912 during which he prepared the notes for his famous novel, Maria Chapdelaine.
Peribonka comes from the Innu word periwanga (or possibly from pelipaukau), meaning “river digging in/removing the sand”, from the roots per or pen, “to remove”, and anga, meaning “sand”.[1]
In 1673, Jesuits François de Crespieul and Charles Albanel visited the place. But a village did not form until 1888 when the families of Édouard Niquet (or Niquette) and Édouard Milot arrived. Niquet had been sent there by Antoine Labelle, then Deputy Minister of Colonization of Quebec. A significant impetus to colonization came in 1897 with the founding of the Colonization and Repatriation Society of Quebec and Lac Saint-Jean, organization that encouraged the establishment of settlers and the repatriation of French-Canadian families exiled in the United States. The Peribonka Post Office opened in 1898.[1][4]
Amédée Robitaille established the Peribonka Pulp Company which led to the founding of the municipality of Saint-Amédée in 1902. The following year, the Parish of Saint-Édouard-de-Peribonka was formed and named after Édouard Niquet and the adjacent river, that first got its name back in 1679. In 1909, the Municipality of Péribonka was founded by separating a portion of Saint-Amédée’s territory. But in 1926, Saint-Amédée was completely annexed by Péribonka.[1]
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Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 234 (total dwellings: 304)
Mother tongue:[5]
- English as first language: 0%
- French as first language: 99.0%
- English and French as first language: 1.0%
- Other as first language: 0%
