Lingwick

Lingwick
Township municipality
Sainte-Marguerite Church
Location within Le Haut-Saint-François RCM
Lingwick Location in southern Quebec
Coordinates: 45.58°N 71.33°W / 45.58; -71.33
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Estrie
RCM	Le Haut-Saint-François
Constituted	July 1, 1855
Government
• Mayor	Robert Gladu
• Federal riding	Compton—Stanstead
• Prov. riding	Mégantic
Area
• Total	249.60 km2 (96.37 sq mi)
• Land	243.01 km2 (93.83 sq mi)
Population  (2021)
• Total	456
• Density	1.9/km2 (4.9/sq mi)
• Pop 2016-2021	6.5%
• Dwellings	334
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	J0B 2Z0
Area code	819
Highways	R-108 R-214 R-257
Website	www.cantondelingwick.com

Lingwick is a township of about 500 people in Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada.

It incorporates the former villages of Gould and Sainte-Marguerite.

Demographics

Population

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lingwick had a population of 456 living in 222 of its 334 total private dwellings, a change of 6.5% from its 2016 population of 428. With a land area of 243.01 km² (93.83 sq mi), it had a population density of 1.9/km² (4.9/sq mi) in 2021.

Historical Census Data - Lingwick, Quebec

Year	Pop.	±%
1861	564	—
1871	801	+42.0%
1881	1,035	+29.2%
1891	1,022	−1.3%
1901	791	−22.6%
1911	839	+6.1%
1921	724	−13.7%
1931	669	−7.6%

Year	Pop.	±%
1941	812	+21.4%
1951	823	+1.4%
1956	868	+5.5%
1961	798	−8.1%
1966	652	−18.3%
1971	607	−6.9%
1976	506	−16.6%
1981	479	−5.3%

Year	Pop.	±%
1986	451	−5.8%
1991	436	−3.3%
1996	425	−2.5%
2001	419	−1.4%
2006	611	+45.8%
2011	399	−34.7%
2016	428	+7.3%
2021	456	+6.5%

See also

• List of anglophone communities in Quebec

External links

• Media related to Lingwick at Wikimedia Commons