Saint-Élie-de-Caxton () is a municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada.

Before January 15, 2005, it was known simply as Saint-Élie.

Geography Located in the foothills of the Laurentian Mountains, its territory is dotted with lakes. The more prominent lakes are Des Souris, Goulet, and Grand Long Lakes, which are densely lined with summer cottages.

History

The Gale and Duberger Map of 1795 already identified the area as Caxton Township, named after an English village situated about 15 kilometers from Cambridge. In 1839, it was officially formed as a geographic township.

Colonization of Caxton Township was delayed because the land sold in 1833 was not yet allocated, with the owners apparently missing. In 1863, it had only 30 families. Two years later in 1865, the Parish and the Parish Municipality of Saint-Élie was formed. It got its name from Joseph-Élie-Sylvestre Sirois-Duplessis (1795–1878), parish priest of Saint-Basile-de-Madawaska (1826–1831), Saint-Stanislas-de-Champlain (1831–1846), and Saint-Barnabé-de-Saint-Maurice (1846–1865), and also one of the first priests of Saint-Élie.

In 1872, the Saint-Élie post office opened.

On December 31, 2001, Saint-Élie was transferred from the Centre-de-la-Mauricie RCM to the Maskinongé RCM, following the formation of the new City of Shawinigan and the dissolution of the Centre-de-la-Mauricie RCM. On January 15, 2005, the Parish Municipality of Saint-Élie became the Municipality of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton.

Demographics Population trend:Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census

Private dwellings occupied by usual residents (2021): 927 (total dwellings: 1,248)

Mother tongue (2021): English as first language: 1.3% French as first language: 97.4% English and French as first languages: 0.3% Other as first language: 0.8%

List of mayors

The mayor is the municipality's highest elected official.Source: Odette Villemure, Municipality of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton Officially, mayoral elections in Saint-Élie-de-Caxton are on a non-partisan basis.

# Mayor Took office Left office 1 Calixte Bellefeuille 1868 1870 2 Alexandre Lefebvre 1870 1872 3 Frédéric Pellerin 1872 1874 4 Pierre Gagnon 1874 1878 5 Héraclée Beaulieu 1878 1880 6 Joseph Matteau 1880 1881 7 Narcisse Auger 1881 1884 8 Joseph Matteau 1884 1889 9 Pierre Deschênes 1889 1890 10 Alexis Blanchette 1887 1890 11 Élie Héroux 1890 1892 4 Pierre Gagnon 1892 1893 5 Héraclée Beaulieu 1893 1897 12 Narcisse Beaulieu 1897 1898 13 Bélonie Garceau 1898 1899 14 Israël Deschênes 1899 1902 15 Joseph Deschênes 1902 1903 16 Édouard Carufel 1903 1906 17 Philippe Beauchemin 1906 1907 18 Majorique Lafrenière 1907 1909 19 Évariste Beaulieu 1909 1910 20 Paul Garceau 1910 1913 21 Odilon Lamy 1913 1916 22 Elzéard Rivard 1916 1920 23 Edmond Grenier 1920 1921 22 Elzéard Rivard 1921 1923 24 Napoléon Pellerin 1923 1931 25 Arthur Philibert 1931 1933 26 Alfred Gélinas 1933 1935 27 Edmond Samson 1935 1937 28 Nérée Guillemette 1937 1938 29 Zéphirin Garceau 1938 1939 30 Elzéard Rivard 1939 1945 31 Lucien F. Garant 1945 1953 32 William Lafrenière 1953 1961 33 Roland Legris 1961 1965 34 Eugène Philibert 1965 1968 33 Roland Legris 1968 1987 35 Jean-Claude Grenier 1987 1989 36 André Garant In the late 1990s, André Garant served as prefect of the Regional County Municipality of Centre-de-la-Mauricie. See: MRC du Haut Saint-Maurice, Schéma d'aménagement révisé, Main Document, November 1999, Volume 1 1989 2001 37 Agathe Lampron 2001 2005 36 André Garant 2005 2013 38 Réjean Audet 2013 2017 39 Robert Gauthier 2017 2021 40 Gina Lemire 2021 2022 41 Charline Plante 2023 present

Notable people Storyteller and musician Fred Pellerin was born in Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, which is the setting of many of his published stories."Fred Pellerin nous amène à Saint-Élie-de-Caxton". Ici Radio-Canada, November 23, 2015.

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