Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, La Sarre had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

| 1941 |2167

| 1951 |2744

| 1956 |3155

| 1961 |3944

| 1966 |4798

| 1971 |5185

| 1976 |4978

| 1981 |8861

| 1986 |8622

| 1991 |8513

| 1996 |8345

| 2001 |7728

| 2006 |7336

| 2011 |7719

| 2016 |7282

| 2021 |7358

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!colspan="19"|Canada Census Mother Tongue - La Sarre, Quebec

  • Adélard Cousineau 1917
  • Félix Brousseau 1919
  • Léonidas Boisvert 1920
  • Hormidas Gauthier 1921–23
  • Jules Lavigne 1923–31
  • Edmond Mercier 1931–33
  • Oscar Létourneau 1933–36
  • Adrien Mercier 1936–39
  • Gustave Rheault 1939–41
  • Paul Bélanger 1941–44
  • G. Eugène Lambert 1944–47
  • Arthur Fortin 1947
  • Fernand Doyon 1947–48
  • Gérard Mercier 1948
  • François-Xavier Martel 1948–51
  • Gérard Mercier 1951–53
  • Adélard Pelletier 1953–55
  • Clément Déry 1955–63
  • Hector Gagné 1963–68
  • Roger Cousineau 1968–69
  • Yves Baltazard 1969–72
  • Raymond Thibault 1972–77
  • Paul-Aurèle St-Pierre 1977–92
  • Guy Carignan 1992–93
  • Guillaume Marquis 1993–96
  • J-Horace Lessard 1996–2003
  • Normand Houde 2003–2017
  • Yves Dubé (2017–present)

Notable people

  • Aurèle Audet, (1920-2015), former Member of the National Assembly of Quebec
  • Marie-Claude Audet, former cyclist
  • Yvan Bordeleau, former Member of the National Assembly of Quebec
  • Gérard Laprise, (1925-2000), former Member of Parliament
  • Bob Mongrain, former ice hockey player
  • Christine Moore, former Member of Parliament
  • Doris Piché, badminton player
  • Sébastien Piché, ice hockey player
  • Pierre St-Amand, , Royal Canadian Air Force Lieutenant-General
  • Gilles Ste-Croix, vice president and co-creator of Cirque du Soleil.

See also

  • List of cities in Quebec

References

  • Ville de La Sarre (French only)
  • Vidéo : La Sarre en 1976
  • Vidéo : La Sarre en 1989