La Bostonnais, Quebec
La Bostonnais | |
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Ducharme Bridge in the center of La Bostonnais | |
Location within La Tuque TE. | |
| Coordinates: 47°31′N 72°41′W / 47.517°N 72.683°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Mauricie |
| RCM | None |
| Agglomeration | La Tuque |
| Settled | 1871 |
| Constituted | January 1, 2006 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Chantal St-Louis |
| • Federal riding | Saint-Maurice—Champlain |
| • Prov. riding | Laviolette |
| Area | |
• Total | 289.30 km2 (111.70 sq mi) |
| • Land | 284.32 km2 (109.78 sq mi) |
| Population (2021) | |
• Total | 556 |
| • Density | 2/km2 (5/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2016-2021 | 12.4% |
| • Dwellings | 374 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area code | 819 |
| Highways | R-155 |
La Bostonnais is a municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada. The community is about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north of La Tuque's town centre along Quebec Route 155.
The municipality takes its name from the nearby Bostonnais and Little Bostonnais Rivers. This name probably came from an American man originally from Boston who joined the Abenaki at the beginning of the 19th century. In 1823, a reference was made to an Abenaki man named Jean-Baptiste Bostonnais who had one of his daughters baptized at Trois-Rivières. The Bostonnais family had their hunting territory in the area where the namesake rivers flow.