Grande-Rivière | |
Settlement Type: | City |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Eastern Quebec |
Pushpin Label: | Grande-Rivière |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in eastern Quebec. |
Coordinates: | 48.4°N -94°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine |
Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
Subdivision Name3: | Le Rocher-Percé |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Title1: | Constituted |
Established Date1: | September 21, 1974 |
Government Footnotes: | [1] |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Gino Cyr |
Leader Name2: | Gaspé |
Area Total Km2: | 105.00 |
Area Land Km2: | 87.92 |
Population Total: | 3384 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Density Km2: | 38.5 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
Population Blank1: | 0.7% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 1723 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Postal Code: | G0C 1V0 |
Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Grande-Rivière (in French pronounced as /ɡʁɑ̃d ʁivjɛʁ/, literally Great River) is a city in the Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of the province of Québec in Canada.
In addition to Grande-Rivière itself, the town's territory also includes the communities of Grande-Rivière-Ouest, Petite-Rivière-Ouest, and Petit Pabos.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Grande-Rivière had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 87.92km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
Canada Census Mother Tongue - Grande-Rivière, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
3,300 | 1.0% | 97.6% | 40 | 11.1% | 1.2% | 15 | 50.0% | 0.4% | 30 | 100.0% | 0.9% | ||||||||
3,335 | 1.6% | 97.9% | 45 | 12.5% | 1.3% | 10 | 0.0% | 0.3% | 15 | 50.0% | 0.4% | ||||||||
3,390 | 2.0% | 98.3% | 40 | 14.3% | 1.2% | 10 | n/a% | 0.3% | 10 | 77.8% | 0.3% | ||||||||
3,325 | 5.4% | 97.7% | 35 | 75.0% | 1.0% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 45 | 350.0% | 1.3% | ||||||||
3,515 | 7.6% | 98.9% | 20 | 71.4% | 0.6% | 10 | 33.3% | 0.3% | 10 | n/a% | 0.3% | ||||||||
3,805 | n/a | 97.8% | 70 | n/a | 1.8% | 15 | n/a | 0.4% | 0 | n/a | 0.0% |
L'Église de Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption is a large Roman Catholic church with 1.500 seats which was completed in 1893. The church has a Casavant organ dating from 1954.