Duparquet | |
Flag Size: | 120x100px |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Western Quebec#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in western Quebec |
Coordinates: | 48.5°N -93°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Title1: | Constituted |
Established Date1: | April 13, 1933 |
Government Footnotes: | [1] |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Denis Blais |
Area Footnotes: | [2] |
Area Total Km2: | 156.36 |
Area Land Km2: | 121.17 |
Population Total: | 716 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Density Km2: | 5.9 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
Population Blank1: | 7.5% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 389 |
Utc Offset: | −05:00 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −04:00 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s)/ |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Duparquet (pronounced as /fr/) is a city in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the MRC d'Abitibi-Ouest of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region. It covers 157.4km2 and had a population of 716 as of the Canada 2021 Census.
In 1912, a rich gold vein was discovered near Lake Duparquet by a prospector named Beattie. He set up the Beattie Gold Mine company that began operation in 1933. That same year, the new community forming at the mine was incorporated as Ville de Duparquet, named after the geographic township in which it is located. The township was named in 1916 in honour of Jean-Annet Chabreuil Du Parquet, a grenadier captain of the La Sarre Regiment, that was part of General Montcalm's army.[3]
After producing 1 million ounces of gold and killing at least 27 miners, including 4 in a landslide on 9 July 1946, the mine closed in 1956. But the owners of the mining rights are currently considering reopening it as an open-pit mine.[4]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Duparquet had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 121.17km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
Mother tongue (2021):[5]
As of 2023:[1]