Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes, Quebec

Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes is a municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada. It is the seat of the RCM of Les Chenaux.

History
Detached from Saint-Narcisse and Champlain in 1865, the parish municipality of Saint-Luc changed its status to that of municipality of Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes in 1991.

Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes, a nurturing community

During the Covid-19 pandemic (more or less: 2019-2023), the community of Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes was active around several spontaneous projects: the construction of a bread oven, the inoculation of mushrooms on logs, the planting of fruit shrubs, the cultivation of a community garden, the installation of beehives. Source: A dream takes shape in Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes.

Geography
The composition of the soil of Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes includes clay at depth, it favours landslides: those of 1823, 1878, 1895, 1981 and 1986 2016 are among the most remarkable.

On 9 November 2016, a landslide in sensitive glaciomarine sediments occurred on a terrace of the Champlain River near the municipality of Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes, Quebec. The particularity of this event is that there are evidences that the movement started as a flowslide and then finished as a spread. The landslide morphology comprises horsts and grabens typical of spreads and also a large quantity of remolded material that flowed out of a pear-shaped crater with a narrow bottleneck, typical of flowslides. The geotechnical investigation of this landslide was performed by the Ministère des Transports du Québec (MTQ) in collaboration with Université Laval, and consisted of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) surveys, drone photography, several boreholes, piezocone tests with pore pressure measurements (CPTUs), field vane tests, and piezometric monitoring. Source: Canadian science publishing

Demographics
Population trend:
 * Population in 2011: 591 (2006 to 2011 population change: 6.9%)
 * Population in 2006: 553
 * Population in 2001: 609
 * Population in 1996: 623
 * Population in 1991: 618

Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 261 (total dwellings: 273)

Mother tongue:
 * English as first language: 2.7%
 * French as first language: 93.6%
 * English and French as first language: 0%
 * Other as first language: 3.7%