| Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage | |
| Settlement Type: | Parish municipality |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Eastern Quebec |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in eastern Quebec |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name3: | La Mitis |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | September 29, 1873 |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Magella Roussel |
| Leader Title1: | |
| Leader Name1: | Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Matane-Matapédia |
| Area Total Km2: | 32.00 |
| Area Land Km2: | 30.98 |
| Population Total: | 590 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 19 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 12.8% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 260 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | G5H 3N8 |
| Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage is a parish municipality in La Mitis Regional County Municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada.
It is located 5 km south-east of Mont-Joli in the Matapédia River Valley. The village is 350 km north east of Québec city and 360 km west of Gaspé. The nearest towns are Mont-Joli, and Rimouski which lies 40 km to the south-east.
Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage takes its name from the colonial lordship, the Seigneurie Lepage-et-Thibierge, which was the early governance of the area. Its 500 residents work largely in agriculture and forestry.[1]
The ecclesiastical parish of the same name is in the Archdiocese of Rimouski.
The territory occupied by the parish municipality of Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage was first granted to Gabriel Thivierge and Louis Lepage and became known as the seigneury of Lepage-et-Thivierge. Later, this seigneury became the Seignory of Rimouski, which for a long time belonged to the Lepage family. The parish of Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage was canonically erected on 21 April 1873. The municipality of Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage was officially created on 29 September 1873 by a detachment from Sainte-Flavie. The presbytery was built in 1873. The wooden church was built in 1875. The caisse populaire was founded on March 7, 1940.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 30.98km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
Private dwellings (occupied by usual residents): 223
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