Saint-Ours, Quebec
Saint-Ours | |
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Saint-Ours church | |
Location within Pierre-De Saurel RCM | |
Saint-Ours Location in southern Quebec | |
| Coordinates: 45°53′N 73°09′W / 45.883°N 73.150°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Montérégie |
| RCM | Pierre-De Saurel |
| Constituted | April 17, 1991 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Sylvain Dupuis |
| • Federal riding | Bécancour—Nicolet—Saurel |
| • Prov. riding | Richelieu |
| Area | |
• Total | 61.00 km2 (23.55 sq mi) |
| • Land | 59.39 km2 (22.93 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 1,721 |
| • Density | 29/km2 (75/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2006-2011 | 1.2% |
| • Dwellings | 856 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area codes | 450 and 579 |
| Highways | R-133 |
| Website | www |
Saint-Ours is a city located in the Pierre-De Saurel Regional County Municipality of Québec (Canada), in the administrative region of Montérégie. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 1,721. Founded in 1650 and originally constituent of the Saint-Ours Parish Municipality, which merged alongside L'Immaculée-Conception-de-Saint-Ours municipality in 1991, Saint-Ours is one of the earliest settlements in Montérégie. The city is named in honor of Pierre Roch de Saint-Ours, a captain of a company in the regiment of Carignan-Salières, sent by the king to come to the aid of the colonists of New France, in 1665. Pierre de Saint-Ours was the first lord of these lands.