Sainte-Hélène-de-Mancebourg
# Sainte-Hélène-de-Mancebourg

Sainte-Hélène-de-Mancebourg is a parish municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada in the Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality. It covers 68.15 km² and had a population of 410 as of the 2021 Canadian census.

The township was incorporated on May 10, 1941.

## Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sainte-Hélène-de-Mancebourg had a population of 410 living in 159 of its 185 total private dwellings, a change of 9.9% from its 2016 population of 373. With a land area of 68.15 $km^2$ (26.31 sq mi), it had a population density of $6.0/km^2$ (15.6/sq mi) in 2021.

| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| - | - | - |
| 1941 | 419 | — |
| 1951 | 560 | +33.7% |
| 1956 | 612 | +9.3% |
| 1961 | 587 | −4.1% |
| 1966 | 562 | −4.3% |
| 1971 | 491 | −12.6% |
| 1976 | 457 | −6.9% |
| 1981 | 454 | −0.7% |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1986 | 436 | −4.0% |
| 1991 | 398 | −8.7% |
| 1996 | 415 | +4.3% |
| 2001 | 384 | −7.5% |
| 2006 | 375 | −2.3% |
| 2011 | 354 | −5.6% |
| 2016 | 373 | +5.4% |
| 2021 | 410 | +9.9% |

Source: Statistics Canada :

Mother tongue (2021):

* English as first language: 0%
* French as first language: 98.8%
* English and French as first language: 1.2%
* Other as first language: 0%

## Government

Municipal council (as of 2023):

* Mayor: Rémi Morin
* Councillors: Florent Bédard, Ghislain Gagné, Monia Cloutier, Claudette Bédard, Raymonde Petitclerc, Yvon Morin

List of former mayors:

* Béloni Aubin (1941–1943)
* Welly Vachon (1943–1945, 1947–1949)
* Édouard Théberge (1945–1947)
* Napoléon Fournier (1947, 1955–1959)
* Arthur Bédard (1949–1951)
* Joseph Picard (1951–1955)
* Victorin Veillette (1959–1961)
* Conrad Bergeron (1961–1985)
* Jocelyn Breton (1985–1986)
* Robert St-Amour (1986–1987)
* Gérard Audet (1987–1993)
* André Bergeron (1993–1996)
* André Bédard (1996–1997)
* Florent Bédard (1997–2021)
* Rémi Morin (2021–present)
