Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage

The territory occupied by the parish municipality of Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage was first granted to Gabriel Thivierge and Louis Lepage and became known as the seigneury of Lepage-et-Thivierge. Later, this seigneury became the Seignory of Rimouski, which for a long time belonged to the Lepage family. The parish of Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage was canonically erected on 21 April 1873. The municipality of Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage was officially created on 29 September 1873, by a detachment from Sainte-Flavie. The presbytery was built in 1873, and the wooden church was built in 1875. The caisse populaire was founded on March 7, 1940. == Demographics ==

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage 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. Private dwellings (occupied by usual residents): 223 Languages: • French as first language: 98.3% • English as first language: 0.8% ==See also==