La Doré (; known as Notre-Dame-de-la-Doré before 1983) is a parish municipality in Quebec, Canada, in the regional county municipality of Le Domaine-du-Roy and the administrative region of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean.
It is located along the banks of the Sauger River (Rivière au Doré), between the Ashuapmushuan River and the Laurentian Mountains to the south, in the geographic township of Dufferin.
History
In 1882, the Mission of Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation-de-la-Doré was established. The village got its real start in 1889 when settlers from Saint-Méthode, Saint-Félicien, Saint-Prime, and Lambton settled there and founded the Colony of Rivière-au-Doré. In 1891, it was for a large part destroyed by fire, but was rebuilt due to the courage and determination of the pioneers. The next year the Rivière-au-Doré Post Office opened.
In 1904, the mission gained the status of parish, and two years later in 1906, it was incorporated as the Parish Municipality of Saint-Félicien-Partie-Nord-Ouest. In 1915, it changed its name to Notre-Dame-de-la-Doré, and in 1983, it was changed again to the abbreviated form La Doré, because of its widespread common use.
Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, La Doré 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.
Population trend:Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2021 census Population in 2021: 1,359 (2016 to 2021 population change: -0.4%) Population in 2016: 1,365 Population in 2011: 1,453 Population in 2006: 1,454 Population in 2001: 1,553 Population in 1996: 1,624 Population in 1991: 1,668 Population in 1986: 1,851 Population in 1981: 1,880 Population in 1976: 1,911 Population in 1971: 2,058 Population in 1966: 2,264 Population in 1961: 2,276 Population in 1956: 2,068 Population in 1951: 1,883 Population in 1941: 1,301 Population in 1931: 1,106 Population in 1921: 972 Population in 1911: 607
Mother tongue: English as first language: 0.4% French as first language: 99.3% English and French as first language: 0% Other as first language: 0.4%
Arts and culture La Doré holds an annual truck festival, the Festival des camionneurs de La Doré, which took place for the first time in the summer of 1981. In 1991, the festival organizers decided to establish a snowmobile festival in January, the Rally des Loups de La Doré, which is now a snow-cross competition sanctioned by the SCM.
Attractions The municipality also includes one of the oldest water-powered sawmills still operating in Quebec. The Moulin des Pionniers, from circa 1904, is a major tourist attraction and historic site for the village and region.
References
External links
Municipalité de La Doré Moulin des Pionniers festival des camionneurs