Chichester, Quebec

The northern part of the municipal territory is sparsely populated and undeveloped, dotted with several lakes including Lake McGillivray. In its centre there are hills some of which reach an altitude of . The southern portion is mostly cleared and used for agriculture, and where the 2 communities are located. ==History==

The Gale and Duberger Map of 1795 already showed the planned "Chicheter" [sic] Township but it was not officially proclaimed until 1849. It is named after the administrative capital of West Sussex, England. with John B. Poupore as its first mayor. to build large wooden locks in the Culbute Channel of the Ottawa River, claimed to be the largest wooden ones in Canada. The locks were meant to allow steamboat travel on the upper portion of the river but this idea never caught on. The Culbute Locks (and associated dam) were in use from 1876 until the fall of 1889 when they were "...abandoned to the forces of the river and Nature's wood-rotting agents..." Today, the municipality is predominantly dependent on farming, lumbering, and some summer tourism. == Demographics ==

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Chichester had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Mother tongue (2016): • English as first language: 86.1% • French as first language: 10.8% • Other as first language: 3.1% ==See also==