Baie-Trinité
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Location in Côte-Nord region of Quebec | |
Coordinates: 49°25′N 67°18′W / 49.417°N 67.300°W / 49.417; -67.300[1] | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Côte-Nord |
RCM | Manicouagan |
Settled | 1840 |
Constituted | January 1, 1955 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Étienne Baillargeon |
• Federal riding | Manicouagan |
• Prov. riding | René-Lévesque |
Area | |
• Total | 538.74 km2 (208.01 sq mi) |
• Land | 417.48 km2 (161.19 sq mi) |
Population
(2021)[3]
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• Total | 438 |
• Density | 1.0/km2 (3/sq mi) |
• Pop (2016-21) | ![]() |
Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
Postal code(s) | |
Area codes | 418 and 581 |
Highways | ![]() |
MAMROT code | 96005 |
Toponymie info | 3121 |
Website | baie-trinite![]() |
Baie-Trinité (Village Municipality) is part of the Manicouagan Regional County Municipality, in Côte-Nord region, Quebec province, Canada.
The village municipality are named after the small Trinity Bay into which the Trinity River drains. The river's name may be attributed to Jacques Cartier who sailed by this river on Trinity Sunday in 1536. The first permanent settlers came in 1840, the Baie-de-la-Trinité Mission was established in 1898.[4]
The municipality is located on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence at the mouth of the Trinity River (French: Rivière de la Trinité), a salmon river which flows through the village.[5]
The main access to the municipality is Route 138, also known as the Whale Route. The major economic sectors are forestry and fisheries.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Baie-Trinité had a population of 438 living in 231 of its 341 total private dwellings, a change of 7.6% from its 2016 population of 407. With a land area of 417.48 km2 (161.19 sq mi), it had a population density of 1.0/km2 (2.7/sq mi) in 2021.[3]
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Population counts are not adjusted for boundary changes. Source: Statistics Canada[6][7] |
Mother tongue (2021):[3]
The Pointe-des-Monts Lighthouse, a National historic site of Canada, was built in 1829-1830 on a point that ancient geographers, since Samuel de Champlain (1567-1655) himself, classified as the demarcation point between the St. Lawrence River and the Gulf of St. Lawrence.[1][8][9]
The rest area belongs to the Ministère des Transports du Québec, it is located in Baie-Trinité, on the Route des Baleines, (Route 138), between Labrie and Jourdain streets, it recalls the memory of Ludger Champagne (1929-2020).
Mr. Champagne founded the Club 4 H of Baie-Trinité in 1966 and was an important player in the construction of the building that housed the 4-H relay, a rest area for the local population and travellers. The 4-H Clubs of Quebec, which brought together young people aged 8 to 18, were committed to the protection and conservation of the environment. The 4-H movement was created in 1912 in the United States and established in Quebec in 1942 by the Quebec Forestry Association.[10]' [11]
From the shoreline of Pointe des Monts to the city of Matane, opposite, in the Gaspé Peninsula, the distance is only 52 km. These points serve as a boundary between the estuary of the St. Lawrence River upstream and the much wider Gulf of St. Lawrence downstream
The reason for assigning the name Trinité to a river and then to a bay on the North Shore, before being transferred to a municipality, remains unclear.
This typical Côte-Nord river flows slowly through shallow pools strewn with large rocks, ending in a section with a greater difference in level and flow.
Built on a rocky outcrop that forms an islet at high tide, the lighthouse bears witness to a time when navigation in the Gulf of St. Lawrence was perilous.
The first lighthouse, completed in 1830, had walls six feet thick at the base, tapering to two feet at the lantern deck.20
Rest area for the local population and travellers, which has since become a rest area owned by the Ministry of Transport.
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