Belcourt is a municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 in northwestern Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, in the La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality

La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality, Quebec

Vallée-de-l'Or is a Regional County Municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada. The seat is in Val-d'Or. It is named for its Gold deposits in the Harricana River and Bell River valleys...

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History

Following the construction of the National Transcontinental Railway

National Transcontinental Railway

The National Transcontinental Railway was a historic Canadian railway between Winnipeg and Moncton. Much of the line is now operated by the Canadian National Railway.-The Grand Trunk partnership:...

, the area opened up for colonization. The new settlement was originally called Café or Coffee but renamed to Goulet, after the first permanent settler who arrived in 1915. In 1918, it was incorporated as the United Township Municipality of Carpentier-et-Courville. Since there already was a Goulet Post Office in Bellechasse County

Bellechasse County

Bellechasse County was a county of Quebec, Canada during the 19th and 20th centuries. Part or all of it was within the Bellechasse federal electoral district at least from 1882 to 1987....

, the place was officially renamed to Belcourt in 1958, in honour of Napoléon-Antoine Belcourt

Napoléon Belcourt

Napoléon Antoine Belcourt, PC was a Franco-Ontarian parliamentarian in Canada.-Early life:Belcourt was born in Toronto to French-Canadian parents, Ferdinand-Napoléon Belcourt and Marie-Anne Clair, and raised in Trois-Rivières, Quebec...

(1860-1932).

Demographics

Population trend:

• Population in 2006: 256 (2001 to 2006 population change: -5.9 %)
• Population in 2001: 272
• Population in 1996: 285
• Population in 1991: 292

Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 118 (total dwellings: 128)

Mother tongue:

• English as first language: 0 %
• French as first language: 100 %
• English and French as first language: 0 %
• Other as first language: 0 %