Boischatel is a municipality in the Capitale-Nationale

Capitale-Nationale

Capitale-Nationale is one of 17 administrative regions of Quebec, Canada. Quebec City, Quebec's centre of government, is located in this region. It has a land area of 18,638.7 km2...

 region of 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. Michel Guimond

Michel Guimond

Michel Guimond is a Canadian politician. From 1987 to 1993 he served as a city councillor in Boischatel, Quebec. After this, he ran in the 1993 federal election for the Bloc Québécois. He was elected into the Canadian House of Commons as the member from Beauport—Montmorency—Orléans...

, current whip

Whip (politics)

A whip is an official in a political party whose primary purpose is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. Whips are a party's "enforcers", who typically offer inducements and threaten punishments for party members to ensure that they vote according to the official party policy...

 of the Bloc Québécois

Bloc Québécois

The Bloc Québécois is a federal political party in Canada devoted to the protection of Quebec's interests in the House of Commons of Canada, and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty. The Bloc was originally a party made of Quebec nationalists who defected from the federal Progressive Conservative...

, first started his political career here as a city councillor. The town was originally called Saint-Jean-de-Boischatel.

The town itself is located along the Montmorency River

Montmorency River

The Montmorency River is a river in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. It drains into the Saint Lawrence River, about downstream from Quebec City. It is especially known for the impressive Montmorency Falls near its mouth....

. Nearby on the boundary with Beauport are the Montmorency Falls

Montmorency Falls

The Montmorency Falls are a large waterfall on the Montmorency River in Quebec, Canada. The falls are located on the boundary between the borough of Beauport, Quebec City, and Boischatel, about 12 km from the heart of old Quebec City...

 where 35,000 liters of water per second are falling down a height one and a half times greater than the Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls

The Niagara Falls, located on the Niagara River draining Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, is the collective name for the Horseshoe Falls and the adjacent American Falls along with the comparatively small Bridal Veil Falls, which combined form the highest flow rate of any waterfalls in the world and has...

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Demographics

Population trend:

• Population in 2006: 5287 (2001 to 2006 population change: 22.9 %)
• Population in 2001: 4303
• Population in 1996: 4152
• Population in 1991: 3878

Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 1926 (total dwellings: 1971)

Mother tongue:

• English as first language: 0.3 %
• French as first language: 98.0 %
• English and French as first language: 0.3 %
• Other as first language: 1.4 %