Calixa-Lavallée (), named for the composer of the same name, is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada, east of Montreal in the Marguerite-D'Youville Regional County Municipality. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 509.
On December 6, 2014, Calixa-Lavallée changed from parish municipality to a (regular) municipality.
History Calixa-Lavallée was originally part of Verchères. This had been granted by Intendant Jean Talon to François Jarret, who thus became Sieur de Verchères, in 1672. It became an independent municipality in 1878 known as Sainte-Théodosie. It now forms part of the Sainte-Marguerite-d’Youville Pastoral Unit, which lies within the Diocese of Saint-Jean-Longueuil.
According to the Commission de toponymie du Québec, from 1946 onwards, the municipality took on a new name: Sainte-Théodosie-Calixa-Lavallée, some 100 years after the birth of the composer Calixa Lavallée, in his honour. Calixa Lavallée (1842–1891), baptised Calixte Pâquet dit Lavallée, is thought to have been born on Rang de la Beauce, on the outskirts of the municipality which, at that time, as not yet been established and was still part of Verchères, which explains why the records list Verchères as his official place of birth.
It was in 1974 that the municipality’s name was changed for the last time to simply Calixa-Lavallée, for a variety of reasons. Firstly, for the obvious purpose of simplification, but also because the similarity between the names Saint-Théodore and Sainte-Théodosie was causing frequent postal errors. Secondly, preparations were underway for the celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the national anthem ‘O Canada’, composed by Calixa Lavallée. This anthem had been performed in public for the first time in 1880.
Demographics Population
Language Canada Census Mother Tongue - Calixa-Lavallée, Quebec Census Total Year Responses Count Trend Pop % Count Trend Pop % Count Trend Pop % Count Trend Pop % 495 2.0% 97.1% 5 0.0% 1.0% 5 n/a% 1.0% 10 0.0% 2.0% 505 2.0% 96.2% 5 n/a% 1.0% 0 0.0% 0.0% 10 100.0% 1.9% 495 6.6% 99.0% 0 0.0% 0.0% 0 0.0% 0.0% 5 n/a% 1.0% 530 7.1% 100.0% 0 0.0% 0.0% 0 0.0% 0.0% 0 0.0% 0.0% 495 7.6% 100.0% 0 0.0% 0.0% 0 0.0% 0.0% 0 100.0% 0.0% 460 n/a 97.9% 0 n/a 0.0% 0 n/a 0.0% 10 n/a 2.1%
See also List of municipalities in Quebec
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