Métis-sur-Mer
City in Quebec, Canada
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Métis-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [metis syʁ mɛʁ], lit. 'Métis on Sea') is a city in the La Mitis Regional County Municipality within the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. It had a population of 594 in the Canada 2021 Census.[3]
Métis-sur-Mer | |
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 Location within La Mitis RCM | |
  Métis-sur-Mer Location in eastern Quebec | |
| Coordinates: 48.67°N 68°W[1] | |
| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  Quebec |
| Region | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
| RCM | La Mitis |
| Constituted | July 4, 2002 |
| Boroughs | MacNider |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Jean-Pierre Pelletier |
| • Federal riding | Rimouski—La Matapédia |
| • Prov. riding | Matane-Matapédia |
| Area | |
• Total | 263.70 km2 (101.82 sq mi) |
| • Land | 48.22 km2 (18.62 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 594 |
| • Density | 12.3/km2 (32/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2016–2021 |  3.8% |
| • Dwellings | 505 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area codes | 418 and 581 |
| Highways |  R-132 |
| Website | www |
The name "Métis" is said to come from a Mi'kmaq word meaning "meeting place"; "sur-mer" refers to its location on the Saint Lawrence River.
History
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From 1818, John MacNider, the Scottish Seigneur of Métis started settling the area with Scottish immigrants.
The city has a borough named MacNider, named after MacNider's family. Its territory corresponds to the former (pre-merger) village municipality of Métis-sur-Mer (Metis Beach).[4][5]
The town was a popular summer vacation spot for wealthy anglophone Montrealers. At the end of the 19th century, they spent their time in Métis-sur-Mer to flee waves of cholera. At the beginning of the 20th century, they did so again to escape outbreaks of the Spanish flu.[6]
On July 4, 2002, the village of Métis-sur-Mer and the municipality of Les Boules merged to form the city of Métis-sur-Mer.[7]
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Métis-sur-Mer had a population of 594 living in 310 of its 505 total private dwellings, a change of 3.8% from its 2016 population of 572. With a land area of 48.22 km2 (18.62 sq mi), it had a population density of 12.3/km2 (31.9/sq mi) in 2021.[8]
Population
Population trend:[9]
| Census | Population | Change (%) |
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| 2021 | 594 | 3.8% |
| 2016 | 572 |  11.1% |
| 2011 | 644 | 6.6% |
| 2006 | 604 | N/A |
