Fortierville

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Fortierville
Municipality
An photograph of the rural villa
Coat of arms
Location within Bécancour RCM
Fortierville Location in southern Quebec
Coordinates: 46°29′N 72°02′W / 46.483°N 72.033°W / 46.483; -72.033
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Centre-du-Québec
RCM	Bécancour
Constituted	June 3, 1998
Government
• Mayor	Julie Pressé
• Federal riding	Bécancour—Nicolet—Saurel—Alnôbak
• Prov. riding	Nicolet-Bécancour
Area
• Total	44.40 km2 (17.14 sq mi)
• Land	44.55 km2 (17.20 sq mi)
	There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources
Population  (2021)
• Total	660
• Density	14.8/km2 (38/sq mi)
• Pop 2016-2021	1.3%
• Dwellings	301
Time zone	UTC−05:00 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−04:00 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0S 1J0
Area code	819
Highways	R-226 R-265
Website	www.fortierville.com

Fortierville (French pronunciation: [fɔʁtjevil]) is a small rural municipality in the Centre-du-Québec region of the province of Quebec in Canada. Before officially becoming a rural municipality named Fortierville on 3 June 1998, it was previously a small rural village named Sainte-Philomène-de-Fortierville. In the 19th and very early 20th centuries, the vast majority of the people who lived in Fortierville were rural peasants, with many of them living below the poverty line. The new local parish church was built and constructed in 1884. The previously small rural village of Sainte-Philomène-de-Fortierville was given electricity in the 1910s. During the Spanish flu in the 1910s, more than 35 outbreaks were recorded in Fortierville. As a quarantine measure of the outbreak, the local parish school for girls in Fortierville was closed down from mid-November 1918 to January 1919. Aurore Gagnon, who was an French Canadian rural peasant girl who had lived and died here from a severe and brutal case of physical child abuse in 1920, was posthumously given the title of historical figure (French: personnage historique) in her own honor, on 7 December 2015.

Climate

Notable historical figures

• Aurore Gagnon – a French Canadian rural peasant girl who was a victim of severe and brutal physical abuse and murder in 1920. She was posthumously given the title of historical figure (French: personnage historique) in her own honor, in Fortierville on 7 December 2015.

See also

• List of municipalities in Quebec

References

External links

• Media related to Fortierville at Wikimedia Commons

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