La Durantaye, Quebec
Parish municipality in Quebec, Canada
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La Durantaye is a parish municipality in the Bellechasse Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches administrative region of Quebec.
La Durantaye | |
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 Location within Bellechasse RCM. | |
  La Durantaye Location in province of Quebec. | |
| Coordinates: 46°50′N 70°51′W[1] | |
| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  Quebec |
| Region | Chaudière-Appalaches |
| RCM | Bellechasse |
| Constituted | August 4, 1910 |
| Named after | Olivier Morel de La Durantaye[1] |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Yvon Dumont |
| • Federal riding | Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis |
| • Prov. riding | Bellechasse |
| Area | |
• Total | 34.30 km2 (13.24 sq mi) |
| • Land | 34.99 km2 (13.51 sq mi) |
| There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources | |
| Population (2021)[3] | |
• Total | 782 |
| • Density | 22.3/km2 (58/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2016-2021 |  3.6% |
| • Dwellings | 374 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area codes | 418 and 581 |
| Highways |  R-281 |
| Website | www |
The municipality had a population of 782 in the Canada 2021 Census.
History
The municipality, along with Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse and Saint-Vallier, is located on the territory of the former fief of La Durantaye, granted in 1672 by Governor Frontenac to Olivier Morel de La Durantaye, then captain of the Carignan-Salières Regiment.[4] The municipality was officially created in 1913 under the name of Saint-Gabriel-Archange. Three years later, the name was changed to La Durantaye.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, La Durantaye had a population of 782 living in 339 of its 374 total private dwellings, a change of 3.6% from its 2016 population of 755. With a land area of 34.99 km2 (13.51 sq mi), it had a population density of 22.3/km2 (57.9/sq mi) in 2021.[5]
