Saint-Donat is a parish municipality

Types of municipalities in Quebec

The following is a list of the types of local and supralocal territorial units in Quebec, including those used solely for statistical purposes, as defined by the Institut de la Statistique du Québec....

 in La Mitis

La Mitis Regional County Municipality, Quebec

La Mitis is a regional county municipality in eastern Quebec, Canada on the Gaspé peninsula. Its seat is in Mont-Joli which is on the Saint Lawrence River. La Mitis is named for the Mitis River which has its source in the region and flows through the central part of the region before emptying...

 County, 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. It bears a name similar to the much larger Saint-Donat-de-Montcalm located in Matawinie County. As of 2006, total population of Saint-Donat was 817.

The parish was formed around a church circa 1700 and established in 1869 as part of the Mont-Joli municipal agglomeration. Saint-Donat then separated from Mont-Joli in 1976 along with Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage

Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage, Quebec

Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage is a parish municipality in Quebec....

 and Sainte-Luce

Sainte-Luce, Quebec

Sainte-Luce is a municipality in Quebec....

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