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La Pocatière
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Location within Kamouraska RCM
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  La Pocatière Location in eastern Quebec | |
| Coordinates: 47°22′N 70°02′W / 47.367°N 70.033°W / 47.367; -70.033[1] | |
| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  Quebec |
| Region | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
| RCM | Kamouraska |
| Settled | 1672 |
| Constituted | January 1, 1960 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Sylvain Hudon |
| • Federal riding | Montmagny—L'Islet— Kamouraska—Rivière- du-Loup |
| • Prov. riding | Côte-du-Sud |
| Area | |
| • Total | 20.30 km2 (7.84 sq mi) |
| • Land | 21.73 km2 (8.39 sq mi) |
| There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources | |
| Population | |
| • Total | 4,266 |
| • Density | 196.3/km2 (508/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2006-2011 |  6.8% |
| • Dwellings | 2,137 |
| Demonyms | Pocatois, Pocatoise |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area code(s) | 418 and 581 |
Highways   A-20 (TCH) |  R-132  R-230 |
| Website | www |
La Pocatière (French pronunciation: [la pɔkatjɛʁ]) is a town in the Kamouraska Regional County Municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, La Pocatière had a population of 4,078 living in 1,981 of its 2,201 total private dwellings, a change of -1% from its 2016 population of 4,120. With a land area of 21.18 km2 (8.18 sq mi), it had a population density of 192.5/km2 (498.7/sq mi) in 2021.[4]
Alstom has a 51,135 square metres (550,410 sq ft) plant which manufactures subway and railway cars:
The plant was built in 1961 to build Moto-Ski snowmobiles and the plant was converted to railcars in 1971[5] (Bombardier continued to market Moto-Ski until 1985).
La Pocatière is home to the Musée François-Pilote, a museum of Quebec ethnology. The museum features exhibits on the history of agricultural education, a number of historical period rooms, stuffed bird and animal displays, and presentations on other aspects of local history.
Near the city are small isolated hills known as monadnocks. The Montagne du College-de-Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière is 119 metres high.
City council consists of a mayor and six councillors:
As of 2017 the council consisted of:
There are three post-secondary institutions in La Pocatière:
The town has three public schools under the Commission scolaire de Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup:
La Pocatière is twinned with:
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