Baie-Trinité, Quebec

Baie-Trinité (Village Municipality) is part of the Manicouagan Regional County Municipality, in Côte-Nord region, Quebec province, Canada.

Toponymy
The village municipality are named after the small Trinity Bay into which the Trinity River drains. The river's name may be attributed to Jacques Cartier who sailed by this river on Trinity Sunday in 1536. The first permanent settlers came in 1840, the Baie-de-la-Trinité Mission was established in 1898.

Geography
The municipality is located on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence at the mouth of the Trinity River (French: Rivière de la Trinité), a salmon river which flows through the village.

The main access to the municipality is Route 138, also known as the Whale Route. The major economic sectors are forestry and fisheries.

Demography
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Baie-Trinité had a population of $438$ living in $231$ of its $341$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $407$. With a land area of 417.48 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Mother tongue (2021):
 * English as first language: 1.1%
 * French as first language: 94.3%
 * English and French as first language: 0%
 * Other as first language: 3.4%

Pointe-des-Monts Lighthouse
The Pointe-des-Monts Lighthouse, a National historic site of Canada, was built in 1829-1830 on a point that ancient geographers, since Samuel de Champlain (1567-1655) himself, classified as the demarcation point between the St. Lawrence River and the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Ludger-Champagne rest area
The rest area belongs to the Ministère des Transports du Québec, it is located in Baie-Trinité, on the Route des Baleines, (Route 138), between Labrie and Jourdain streets, it recalls the memory of Ludger Champagne (1929-2020).

Mr. Champagne founded the Club 4 H of Baie-Trinité in 1966 and was an important player in the construction of the building that housed the 4-H relay, a rest area for the local population and travellers. The 4-H Clubs of Quebec, which brought together young people aged 8 to 18, were committed to the protection and conservation of the environment. The 4-H movement was created in 1912 in the United States and established in Quebec in 1942 by the Quebec Forestry Association. '