City in Quebec, Canada
Danville
is a
city
in the administrative region of
Estrie
, in the
Canadian province
of
Quebec
. As of the
2016 Canadian Census
, the population was 3,836.
History
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Danville is on a stretch of the
Chemin Craig
, a road built in the 19th century connecting Quebec to
New England
. The town is about 70 miles (110 km) north of the
Vermont
border. American
loyalists
from New England began arriving in 1783 and gave the town its name in memory of their hometown in
Vermont
of the same name:
Danville, Vermont
. The founder of Danville was Simeon Flint, who was a resident from Danville, Vermont.
Until about 1971, the population of Danville was majority Anglophone. However, in the mid-1970s, many of the younger generation migrated to
English Canada
,
Greater Montreal
, or
New England
.
There are many heritage buildings, including three
Protestant
churches (Christian Adventist, Presbyterian, and
United Church of Canada
), two
Anglican
churches, an
Evangelical Baptist
church and a
Roman Catholic
church. The Presbyterian church has been retrofitted into a four-star restaurant, and the
Christian Advent
church has been a private residence since 2007, following its closing in 2006. The Catholic church was erected in 2003, following the 2001 loss by fire of the earlier church erected in 1891. The current United church was completed in 1875 for a Congregational parish and is the oldest church in the town. One of the two Anglican
Church of England
churches is located on a historic site on the countryside, near the border of the Shipton Township, Denison Mills.
Danville has two primary schools: a
French language
school,
Ecole Masson
, and an English-speaking school, known as
ADS
(
Asbestos
-
Shipton
-Danville).
At the centre of the city is a square formed by the enlargement of an intersection. A memorial for soldiers killed in the
First World War
, the
Second World War
, and the
Korea War
is in the centre of the square. Another memorial, to Private
Timothy O'Hea
, a recipient of the
Victoria Cross
, is erected in front of the former City Hall.
Once a busy town inhabited by workers of the nearby Johns Manville
asbestos
mine
, the town has quieted down considerably since the mine's closing. A
magnesium
smelter named Magnola, part of Noranda, using mine tailings from local asbestos mine, was set up in the town for a short time, but it ended up closing due to increasing foreign competition. The bucolic rolling fields in the area are good for farming, with many farms having been around for over a century. Both dairy and beef cattle are raised in the area although other livestock are also common.
Each year, the town has an art symposium in which artists from the area gather in the town's many churches and display their artwork.
Demographics
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In the
2021 Census of Population
conducted by
Statistics Canada
, Danville had a population of
3,888
living in
1,778
of its
1,878
total private dwellings, a change of
1.6% from its 2016 population of
3,826
. With a land area of 151.73 km
2
(58.58 sq mi), it had a population density of
25.6/km
2
(66.4/sq mi) in 2021.
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Notable people
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