Otterburn Park

Otterburn Park is a Quebec town that lies south of Mont-Saint-Hilaire on the Richelieu River and is located east of Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 8,479.

History Originally a rural agricultural area, Otterburn Park's transformation began in the late 1800s, when it became a favourite weekend destination for employees of the Grand Trunk Railway, which, starting in 1885, ran a weekend train from Bonaventure Station to Mont-Saint-Hilaire. Occasional recreational visitors, including railroad employees, bought or built summer cottages, spurring development and, eventually, permanent settlement.

Until 1949, the Otterburn park was a neighbourhood within Mont-Saint-Hilaire parish. It took its present name, Otterburn Park, by vote in 1953.

Otterburn Park was the scene of the St-Hilaire train disaster in 1864, in which nearly 100 people were killed when an immigrant train failed to stop at an open swing bridge and fell into the Richelieu. The disaster remains the worst railroad accident in Canadian history, and the bridge is known to this day as the Pont Noir, or black bridge.

Demographics According to the Office québécois de la langue française, Otterburn Park has been officially recognized as a bilingual municipality since 1978-04-22.

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Otterburn Park 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 Census Population Change (%) 2021 8,479 0.7% 2016 8,421 0.3% 2011 8,450 0.2% 2006 8,464 7.6% 2001 7,866 7.5% 1996 7,320 21.1% 1991 6,046 32.3% 1986 4,571 6.6% 1981 4,268 2.6% 1976 4,159 18.4% 1971 3,512 14.6% 1966 3,065 16.7% 1961 2,627 70.1% 1956 1,544 42.3% 1951 1,085 24.3% 1941 1,433 64.1% 1931 873 8.9% 1921 802 38.7% 1911 1,309 2.7% 1901 1,275 1.9% 1891 1,251 9.5% 1881 1,383 14.5% 1871 1,208 23.6% 1861 1,581 N/A

Mother tongue language (2021)2021 Statistics Canada Community Profile: Otterburn Park, Quebec Language Population Pct (%) French only 7,615 89.9% English only 455 5.4% Both English and French 155 1.8% Other languages 225 2.7%

Education

The South Shore Protestant Regional School Board previously served the municipality.King, M.J. (Chairperson of the board). "South Shore Protestant Regional School Board" (St. Johns, PQ). The News and Eastern Townships Advocate. Volume 119, No. 5. Thursday December 16, 1965. p. 2. Retrieved from Google News on November 23, 2014.

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