Lac-Saguay is a village municipality in Antoine-Labelle Regional County Municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada.
Its economy is centred on tourism, outdoor recreation, hunting, and fishing.
The municipality is named after the adjacent Lake Saguay, which in turn comes from the Algonquin sagwa, meaning "unblock" or "pour". An alternate explanation is that it comes from saki, meaning "river mouth."
History In 1905, the first settlers arrived when Gouin Road opened that connected Nominingue to Ferme-Neuve via Lac-Saguay.
In 1911, the Township Municipality of Boyer-Partie-Ouest was formed out of previously unorganized area, named after Arthur Boyer. That same year, the Parish of Saint-Hugues-du-Lac-Saguay was founded.
In 1921, the post office opened under the name Lac-Saguay.
On July 1, 1951, Boyer-Partie-Ouest was dissolved and, together with more unorganized territory, reformed into the Township Municipality of Boyer. In 1963, it changed names and status to the Municipality of Saguay, and again in 1985 to the Village Municipality of Lac-Saguay.
Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lac-Saguay 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: 3.8% French as first language: 94.3% English and French as first language: 0% Other as first language: 1.9%
Government Lac-Saguay forms part of the federal electoral district of Laurentides—Labelle and has been represented by Marie-Hélène Gaudreau of the Bloc Québécois since 2019. Provincially, Lac-Saguay is part of the Labelle electoral district and is represented by Chantale Jeannotte of the Coalition Avenir Québec since 2018.
+Lac-Saguay federal election results Year Liberal Conservative Bloc Québécois New Democratic Green 2021 27% 100 10% 36 57% 212 2% 6 3% 10 2019 32% 110 8% 27 52% 181 5% 18 2% 5 2015 36% 91 9% 23 27% 68 26% 66 2% 5 2011 13% 32 6% 15 38% 93 42% 103 2% 5 2008 30% 72 9% 21 55% 131 5% 11 2% 5 2006 12% 26 22% 47 60% 127 4% 8 2% 5 2004 27% 51 5% 9 64% 121 2% 4 2% 4
+Lac-Saguay provincial election results Year CAQ Liberal QC solidaire Parti Québécois 2022 43% 74 6% 11 14% 24 18% 32 2018 41% 124 8% 23 15% 46 33% 102 2014 22% 175 22% 172 7% 22 48% 159 2012 25% 69 15% 40 6% 15 51% 139
List of former mayors:
Francine Asselin-Bélisle (...–2021) Michel Chouinard (2021–present)
See also List of village municipalities in Quebec
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