Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac () is a parish municipality in the Mékinac Regional County Municipality, in administrative region of Mauricie, in the province of Quebec in Canada.
The Saint-Roch parish was named in honour of Roch of Montpellier. The term Mékinac is associated with several homonyms of place names in the sector: Mékinac River, Saint-Joseph-de-Mékinac and Mékinac Lake.
Geography
Municipal territory covers both side of Saint-Maurice River, including a small portion of La Mauricie National Park. The village of Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac is located at the top of a hill on Eastern side of Saint-Maurice River.
Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac 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: 1.7% French as first language: 96.7% English and French as first languages: 0% Other as first language: 1.7%
See also
Lake Roberge (Grandes-Piles) Matawin River
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