Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot, Quebec
# Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot, Quebec

Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot is a municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada in the Regional County Municipality of Les Maskoutains. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 1,637.

## History

This municipality was born from the merger, in 1977, of the parish municipality of Sainte-Hélène, founded in 1855, and the village municipality of Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot, founded in 1925.

## Geography

Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot is located between Saint-Hyacinthe and Drummondville and is crossed by the Highway 20 - Jean-Lesage, the village on one side and the land on the other.

Its location allowed, in the 1970s, with the construction of a highway between Montreal and Quebec, to become a stopover village. Several restaurants and service stations are present in this locality of 1500 inhabitants. According to the Ministry of Transport of Quebec, more than 1000 trucks a day stop in this small village.

The municipality was once part of County of Bagot. It is now part of the provincial riding of Johnson.

## Demographics

### Population

| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| - | - | - |
| 1991 | 1,478 | — |
| 1996 | 1,495 | +1.2% |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 2001 | 1,521 | +1.7% |
| 2006 | 1,446 | −4.9% |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 2011 | 1,637 | +13.2% |

### Language

Canada Census Mother Tongue - Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot, Quebec :

| Census | Total | French | French | French | English | English | English | French & English | French & English | French & English | Other | Other | Other |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % |
| 2011 | 1,630 | 1,600 | 15.5% | 98.16% | 10 | n/a% | 0.61% | 5 | n/a% | 0.31% | 15 | 72.7% | 0.92% |
| 2006 | 1,440 | 1,385 | 6.1% | 96.18% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | 55 | 83.3% | 3.82% |
| 2001 | 1,505 | 1,475 | 0.3% | 98.01% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | 30 | n/a% | 1.99% |
| 1996 | 1,470 | 1,470 | n/a | 100.00% | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | 0 | n/a | 0.00% |
