Stornoway, Quebec

Stornoway, French: Stornoway, Scottish Gaelic: Steòrnabhagh is a small village of 600 people. It is a municipality in Quebec, in the regional county municipality of Le Granit in the administrative region of Estrie. It is named after Stornoway, a burgh on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland by Colin Noble in 1852, replacing Bruceville.

Stornoway
Municipality
Location within Le Granit RCM
Stornoway Location in southern Quebec
Coordinates: 45°43′N 71°10′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Estrie
RCM	Le Granit
Constituted	January 1, 1858
Government [2]
• Mayor	Pierre-André Gagné
• Federal riding	Mégantic—L'Érable
• Prov. riding	Mégantic
Area [2][3]
• Total	184.60 km^2 (71.27 sq mi)
• Land	181.47 km^2 (70.07 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[3]
• Total	559
• Density	3.1/km^2 (8/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	4.3%
• Dwellings	250
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0Y 1N0
Area code(s)	819
Highways	Route 108 Route 161
Website	www.munstornoway.qc.ca

It is at the intersection of two provincial highways, Route 108 and Route 161.

Demographics

Historical population of Stornoway, Quebec
(Source: StatsCan)

Year	1996	2001	2006	2011	2016
Population	564	606	584	559	530

External links

• Media related to Stornoway, Quebec at Wikimedia Commons

Former official website of Stornoway: "Municipalité de Stornoway". 2013-01-01. Archived from the original on 2013-01-01. (in French)

• Legendre Mill
• Région du Lac-Mégantic (in French)
• Mégantic Region (in English)
• Stornoway (in French)
• Toponymy Commission of Quebec (in English)
• Affaires municipales et régions - cartes régionales (in French)

References

1. Reference number 60885 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French)
2. Geographic code 30105 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (in French)
3. "(Code 2430105) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.