Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier

The area was granted as a fief to Alexandre Peuvret de Gaudarville (1664-1702) in 1693, whose mother was Catherine Nau de La Boissière et de Fossambault, daughter of Jacques Nau de La Boissière et de Fossambault, advisor to the king. By the 1820s, the lord of the fief was Michel-Louis Juchereau Duchesnay, whose mother was also called Catherine. On September 29, 1984, it changed statutes and name to become the Municipality of Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier, and on December 9, 2000, it changed statutes to become a city. == Demographics ==

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier 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 (2021): • English as first language: 2.0% • French as first language: 96.0% • English and French as first languages: 0.9% • Other as first language: 0.8% ==Government==

Elected in the 2025 Quebec municipal elections • Mayor: Mathieu Roberge • District #1: Jeremy Ouellet-Rousseau • District #2: Eric Gadoury • District #3: Marc-Antoine Gagnon • District #4: David Milot • District #5: Josée Lampron • District #6: Martin Chabot ==See also==