Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac

Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac is a parish municipality in the Mékinac Regional County Municipality, in administrative region of Mauricie, in the province of Quebec in Canada.

Geography
Municipal territory covers both side of Saint-Maurice River, including a small portion of La Mauricie National Park. The village of Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac is located at the top of a hill on Eastern side of Saint-Maurice River.

Toponymy
The Saint-Roch parish was named in honour of Roch of Montpellier. The term Mékinac is associated with several homonyms of place names in the sector: Mékinac River, Saint-Joseph-de-Mékinac and Mékinac Lake.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac had a population of $304$ living in $174$ of its $295$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $302$. With a land area of 144.52 km2, it had a population density of in 2021. Mother tongue:
 * English as first language: 0%
 * French as first language: 98.4%
 * English and French as first language: 0%
 * Other as first language: 0%