La Doré, Quebec

Parish municipality in Quebec, Canada

Coat of arms

48°43′N 72°39′W / 48.72°N 72.65°W / 48.72; -72.65^[1]Country

CanadaProvince

QuebecRegionSaguenay–Lac-Saint-JeanRCMLe Domaine-du-RoySettled1889ConstitutedMarch 16, 1906Government

^[2]

• MayorJacques Asselin • Federal ridingRoberval—Lac-Saint-Jean • Prov. ridingRobervalArea

^[2]^[3]

• Total297.10 km² (114.71 sq mi) • Land289.55 km² (111.80 sq mi)Population

(2011)^[3]

• Total1,453 • Density5.0/km² (13/sq mi) • Pop (2006–11)

0.1% • Dwellings

692Time zoneUTC−5 (EST) • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)Postal code(s)

G8J 1E8

Area code(s)418 and 581Websiteladore.ca

La Doré (known as Notre-Dame-de-la-Doré before 1983) is a parish municipality in Quebec, Canada, in the regional county municipality of Le Domaine-du-Roy and the administrative region of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean.

It is located along the banks of the Sauger River (Rivière au Doré), between the Ashuapmushuan River and the Laurentian Mountains to the south, in the geographic township of Dufferin.

History

In 1882, the Mission of Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation-de-la-Doré was established. The village got its real start in 1889 when settlers from Saint-Méthode, Saint-Félicien, Saint-Prime, and Lambton settled there and founded the Colony of Rivière-au-Doré. In 1891, it was for a large part destroyed by fire, but was rebuilt due to the courage and determination of the pioneers. The next year the Rivière-au-Doré Post Office opened.^[1]

In 1904, the mission gained the status of parish, and two years later in 1906, it was incorporated as the Parish Municipality of Saint-Félicien-Partie-Nord-Ouest. In 1915, it changed its name to Notre-Dame-de-la-Doré, and in 1983, it was changed again to the abbreviated form La Doré, because of its widespread common use.^[1]

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, La Doré had a population of 1,359 living in 610 of its 654 total private dwellings, a change of -0.4% from its 2016 population of 1,365. With a land area of 288.55 km² (111.41 sq mi), it had a population density of 4.7/km² (12.2/sq mi) in 2021.^[4]

Population trend:^[5]

Population in 2011: 1453 (2006 to 2011 population change: -0.1%)
Population in 2006: 1454
Population in 2001: 1553
Population in 1996: 1624
Population in 1991: 1668

Mother tongue:^[6]

English as first language: 0%
French as first language: 100%
English and French as first language: 0%
Other as first language: 0%

Festivals

La Doré holds an annual truck festival, the Festival des camionneurs de La Doré, which took place for the first time in the summer of 1981. In 1991, the festival organizers decided to establish a snowmobile festival in January, the Rally des Loups de La Doré, which is now a snow-cross competition sanctioned by the SCM.

Sawmill

The municipality also includes one of the oldest water-powered sawmills still operating in Quebec. The Moulin des Pionniers, from circa 1904, is a major tourist attraction and historic site for the village and region.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "La Doré (Municipalité de paroisse)" (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec. Retrieved 2010-11-29.
^ ^a ^b Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire - Répertoire des municipalités: La Doré Archived 2012-05-06 at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b "La Doré census profile". 2011 Census data. Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2010-11-29.
^ "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Quebec". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
^ Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census
^ "La Doré community profile". 2006 Census data. Statistics Canada. 13 March 2007. Retrieved 2010-11-29.