Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu
Municipality
Location within La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM
Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu Location in southern Quebec
Coordinates: 45°47′N 73°09′W / 45.783°N 73.150°W / 45.783; -73.150[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Montérégie
RCM	La Vallée-du-Richelieu
Settled	1694
Constituted	December 24, 1997
Government [2][3]
• Mayor	Jacques Villemaire
• Federal riding	Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères
• Prov. riding	Borduas
Area [2][4]
• Total	86.40 km2 (33.36 sq mi)
• Land	85.01 km2 (32.82 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[4]
• Total	2,285
• Density	26.9/km2 (70/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	1.9%
• Dwellings	992
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	J0H 1K0
Area code(s)	450 and 579
Highways	R-133 R-137
Website	www.stdenis surrichelieu.ca

Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu is a municipality in the southwestern part of Quebec, Canada on the Richelieu River in the Regional County Municipality of La Vallée-du-Richelieu. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 2,285.

History

In 1694, King Louis XIV granted the Seigneurie of Saint-Denis to the aristocrat French Army officer, Louis-François De Gannes, sieur de Falaise of Buxeuil, Vienne, France. He named his seigniory after his wife, Barbe Denys.

A great stone Roman Catholic Saint-Denis Church was completed in 1796.

On November 23, 1837, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu was the site of the murder of British courier, Lieutenant George Weir by Patriotes. Subsequently, the Patriotes, calling themselves The Sons of Liberty based on the American model, won a battle here against the British Army that marked the official beginning of the Lower Canada Rebellion. Today, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu has a museum called the Maison nationale des Patriotes, an interpretation centre that presents a history of the Patriotes movement that was led by the villager's most famous resident, Wolfred Nelson.

On October 21s 2012, a monument to the memory of Louis-Joseph Papineau was unveiled in a park next to City Hall, along the river, by Québec Premiere Pauline Marois.

Demographics

Population[edit] Population trend:[5] Census Population Change (%) 2011 2,285 1.9% 2006 2,243 2.7% 2001 2,183 (+) 47.46% 1996 1,147 0.5% 1991 1,153 N/A (+) Amalgamation of the Parish and the Village of Saint-Denis.

Language[edit] Mother tongue language (2006)[6] Language Population Pct (%) French only 1,505 97.41% English only 15 0.97% Both English and French 0 0.00% Other languages 25 1.62%