Lac-Saint-Joseph () is a town in Quebec, Canada, located on the namesake Saint-Joseph Lake.
History Saint-Joseph Lake was already shown and named on Champlain's map of 1632 and Sanson's map of 1656.
Initially a summer resort for residents from Quebec City, its post office opened in 1906 under the name Lake St. Joseph Hotel, renamed to Lac-Saint-Joseph in 1927. Real development of the town began when industrialist Thomas Maher obtained a land concession for logging and built a sawmill. Maher, one of the first residents, sold all the waterfront lots in the 1940s.
In 1936, the City of Lac-Saint-Joseph was created out of territory ceded by the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Catherine.
Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lac-Saint-Joseph 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: 0% French as first language: 98.4% English and French as first language: 0% Other as first language: 0%
Government List of mayors J. Gérald Coote, 1936 J. A. Saucier, 1936-1952 Henri Giguère, 1952-1961 Guy Desrivières, 1961-1967 Fernand Grenier, 1967-1974 J.-Arthur Bédard, 1974-1982 Raymond Blouin, 1982-1990 and 1994-2005 Robert Simard, 1990-1994 O'Donnell Bédard, 2005- Michel Croteau, –2021 Yvan Côté, 2021–present
Political representation Provincially it is part of the riding of La Peltrie. In the 2022 Quebec general election the incumbent MNA Éric Caire, of the Coalition Avenir Québec, was re-elected to represent the population of Lac-Saint-Joseph in the National Assembly of Quebec.
Federally, Lac-Saint-Joseph is part of the federal riding of Saint-Augustin—Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier. In the 2025 Canadian federal election, the incumbent Joël Godin of the Conservative Party was re-elected to represent the population Lac-Saint-Joseph in the House of Commons of Canada.
+Lac-Saint-Joseph federal election results Year Liberal Conservative Bloc Québécois New Democratic Green 2021 22% 31 53% 74 21% 30 1% 2 0% 0 2019 25% 29 36% 42 30% 35 3% 4 2% 3
+Lac-Saint-Joseph provincial election results Year CAQ Liberal QC solidaire Parti Québécois 2018 40% 67 45% 76 8% 13 5% 9 2014 39% 40 47% 49 1% 1 13% 13
See also List of cities in Quebec
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