Packington, Quebec

Packington is a parish municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the Témiscouata Regional County Municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region.

History
The Municipality was founded in 1925 under the name Saint-Benoît-Abbé. In 1972, the name was changed to Packington, a name that was originally used to name this territory.

Pakington was one of the organizing communities of the 5th Acadian World Congress in 2014.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Packington had a population of $578$ living in $273$ of its $419$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $603$. With a land area of 118.75 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.