Duparquet

• Name — Duparquet • Type — City • Shield Size — 100x80px • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — Canada • Subdivision Type1 — Province • Subdivision Name1 — Quebec • Subdivision Type2 — Region • Subdivision Name2 — Abitibi-Témiscamingue • Subdivision Type3 — RCM • Subdivision Name3 — Abitibi-Ouest • Established Title — Settled • Established Title1 — Constituted • Established Date1 — April 13, 1933 • Leader Title — Mayor • Leader Name — Denis Blais • Leader Title1 — Federal riding • Leader Name1 — Abitibi—Témiscamingue • Leader Title2 — Prov. riding • Leader Name2 — Abitibi-Ouest • Area Total Km2 — 156.36 • Area Land Km2 — 121.17 • Population Total — 716 • Population As Of — 2021 • Population Density Km2 — 5.9 • Population Blank1 Title — Pop 2016-2021 • Population Blank1 — 7.5% • Population Blank2 Title — Dwellings • Population Blank2 — 389 • Time Zone — EST • Utc Offset — −05:00 • Time Zone Dst — EDT • Utc Offset Dst — −04:00 • Postal Code Type — Postal code(s)/ • Postal Code — J0Z 1W0 • Area Code — 819 • Custom Label Sec1 — Highways • Website — duparquet.ao.ca

• Illustration — A view of Lake Duparquet from Chemin du Lac, a waterfront road in Duparquet In 1912, a rich gold vein was discovered near Lake Duparquet by a prospector named Beattie. He set up the Beattie Gold Mine company that began operation in 1933. That same year, the new community forming at the mine was incorporated as Ville de Duparquet, named after the geographic township in which it is located. The township was named in 1916 in honour of Jean-Annet Chabreuil Du Parquet, a grenadier captain of the La Sarre Regiment, that was part of General Montcalm's army. After producing 1 million ounces of gold and killing at least 27 miners, including 4 in a landslide on 9 July 1946, the mine closed in 1956. But the owners of the mining rights are currently considering reopening it as an open-pit mine.

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Duparquet had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of. With a land area of 121.17 km2, it had a population density of sqmi in 2021. Mother tongue (2021): • English as first language: 0.7% • French as first language: 98.6% • English and French as first language: 0% • Other as first language: 0%

As of 2023: • Mayor: Denis Blais • Councillors: Donald Baril, Marlene Doroftei, Claudette Macameau, Véronique Drouin-Lecompte, Chantal Provencher, Solange Gamache • General Director: Chantal Poirier

• Tim Horton, hockey player and entrepreneur, lived in Duparquet as a child • Johanne Morasse (born March 12, 1957), a Quebec politician and teacher • Walter Ostanek, polka musician and "Canada's Polka King" • Elmer "Moose" Vasko, Chicago Black Hawks player during the 1960s.