Saint-Anicet, Quebec
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Saint-Anicet is a parish municipality 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....

, located within the Le Haut-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality
Le Haut-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, Quebec
Le Haut-Saint-Laurent is a regional county municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada in the Montérégie region. Its seat is in Huntingdon and it is named for the Saint Lawrence River which forms its western and northwestern boundary....

 in the Montérégie
Montérégie
Montérégie is an administrative region in southwest Québec. It includes the cities of Boucherville, Brossard, Granby, Longueuil, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Saint-Hyacinthe, Sorel-Tracy, and Vaudreuil-Dorion....

 administrative region. The population as of the Canada 2006 Census
Canada 2006 Census
The Canada 2006 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population. Census day was May 16, 2006. The next census following will be the 2011 Census. Canada's total population enumerated by the 2006 census was 31,612,897...

was 2,717.

Population

Population trend
Census Population Change (%)
2006 2,717 3.3%
2001 2,630 3.2%
1996 2,549 15.1%
1991 2,215 N/A

Language

Mother tongue language (2006)
Language Population Pct (%)
French only 2,250 82.87%
English only 310 11.42%
Both English and French 45 1.66%
Other languages 110 4.05%

Museum

In the south of Saint-Anicet the Tsiionhiakwatha/Droulers archaeological site interpretation center was opened on May 15th 2010. It is where the most important Iroquoian village in Quebec lies. Circa 1450, approximately 500 St.Lawrence iroquoians established a village near the La Guerre River.
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