La Pocatière

La Pocatière is a town in the Kamouraska Regional County Municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, La Pocatière had a population of $4,078$ living in $1,981$ of its $2,201$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $4,120$. With a land area of 21.18 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Economy
Alstom has a 51135 m2 plant which manufactures subway and railway cars:


 * R62A (New York City Subway car)
 * Montreal Metro MR-73 and MPM-10
 * Boston Red Line (MBTA) 1800-85 series cars
 * MultiLevel Coach cars
 * VIA Rail LRC (train) set
 * shell for Toronto Transit Commission subway cars (T1 and TR) and streetcars (Flexity Outlook)

The plant was built in 1961 to build Moto-Ski snowmobiles and the plant was converted to railcars in 1971 (Bombardier continued to market Moto-Ski until 1985).

Culture and attractions
La Pocatière is home to the Musée François-Pilote, a museum of Quebec ethnology. The museum features exhibits on the history of agricultural education, a number of historical period rooms, stuffed bird and animal displays, and presentations on other aspects of local history.

Near the city are small isolated hills known as monadnocks. The Montagne du College-de-Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière is 119 metres high.

City council
City council consists of a mayor and six councillors:

As of 2017 the council consisted of:


 * Mayor: Sylvain Hudon
 * Councillors:
 * 1: Lise Bellefeuille
 * 2: Claude Brochu
 * 3: Steve Leclerc
 * 4: Pierre Darveau
 * 5: Lise Garneau,
 * 6: Louise Lacoursière

Education


There are three post-secondary institutions in La Pocatière:
 * Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière - c. 1827
 * Cégep de La Pocatière c. 1967
 * Institut de technologie agroalimentaire - agro-food technology institute with focus on equines (horses) at the La Pocatière campus

The town has three public schools under the Commission scolaire de Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup:
 * École Sacré-Coeur - elementary school
 * École Polyvalente La Pocatière - secondary school
 * Éducation des adultes - adult learning

Twin towns
La Pocatière is twinned with:


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