Courcelles, Quebec

Courcelles
Courcelles
Municipality
	View of Courcelles' Catholic Church
	Location within Le Granit RCM
	Courcelles Location in southern Quebec
	Coordinates: 45°53′15″N 71°00′00″W / 45.8875°N 71°WCoordinates: 45°53′15″N 71°00′00″W / 45.8875°N 71°W
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Estrie
RCM	Le Granit
Constituted	April 6, 1904
Government
• Mayor	Mario Quirion
• Federal riding	Mégantic—L'Érable
• Prov. riding	Beauce-Sud
Area
• Total	91.50 km2 (35.33 sq mi)
• Land	90.63 km2 (34.99 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	950
• Density	10.5/km2 (27/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	2.4%
• Dwellings	466
Postal code(s)	G0M 1C0
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Highways	Route 108
Website	muncourcelles.qc.ca

Courcelles is a municipality in Le Granit Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region in Quebec, Canada. It is approximately 105 km (65 mi) south of Quebec City.

Artist Carmen Coulombe was born in Courcelles.^[4]

Demographics[]

In the 2011 Census, Statistics Canada originally reported that Courcelles had a population of 1,004 living in 438 of its 486 total dwellings, an 8.2% change from its 2006 population of 928.^[5] Statistics Canada subsequently amended the 2011 census results to a population of 950 living in 418 of its 466 total dwellings, a 2.4% change from 2006.^[6] With a land area of 90.63 km² (34.99 sq mi), it had a population density of 10.48/km² (27.15/sq mi) in 2011.^[5]^[6]

References[]

^ Reference number 15531 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French)
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Geographic code 30090 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (in French)
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Canada 2011 Census Census Profiles: Courcelles. Statistics Canada.
^ Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2011 and 2006 censuses (Quebec)". Statistics Canada. 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2012-11-11.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Corrections and updates". Statistics Canada. 2012-10-24. Retrieved 2012-11-11.

External links[]

Media related to Courcelles, Quebec at Wikimedia Commons

[toponymie-1] Reference number 15531 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French)

[mamrot-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b Geographic code 30090 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (in French)

[cp2011-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b Canada 2011 Census Census Profiles: Courcelles. Statistics Canada.

[HellerHeller2013-4] Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.

[2011censusQCmunis-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2011 and 2006 censuses (Quebec)". Statistics Canada. 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2012-11-11.

[2011censuscorrection-6] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Corrections and updates". Statistics Canada. 2012-10-24. Retrieved 2012-11-11.

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show v t Subdivisions of Le Granit Regional County Municipality
Cities	Lac-Mégantic
Municipalities	Audet Courcelles Frontenac Lac-Drolet Lambton Milan Nantes Notre-Dame-des-Bois Piopolis Saint-Ludger Saint-Robert-Bellarmin Saint-Romain Saint-Sébastien Sainte-Cécile-de-Whitton Stornoway
Parishes	Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn Val-Racine
Townships	Marston Stratford
Regional County Municipalities in Estrie: Coaticook Le Granit Le Haut-Saint-François Le Val-Saint-François Les Sources Memphrémagog Independent Cities: Sherbrooke