Sainte-Mélanie

• Name — Sainte-Mélanie • Settlement Type — Municipality • Image Skyline — Lac Rocher30.jpg • Image Caption — Rocher Lake, largest lake within the municipality • Flag Size — 120x100px • Shield Size — 100x80px • Image Map — Sainte-Mélanie Quebec location diagram.png • Map Caption — Location within Joliette RCM. • Pushpin Map — Canada Central Quebec • Pushpin Label Position — left • Pushpin Map Caption — Location in central Quebec. • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Type1 — Province • Subdivision Type2 — Region • Subdivision Name2 — Lanaudière • Subdivision Type3 — RCM • Subdivision Name3 — Joliette • Established Title — Settled • Established Title1 — Constituted • Established Date1 — July 1, 1855 • Leader Title — Mayor • Leader Name — Yves Beaulieu • Leader Title1 — Federal riding • Leader Name1 — Joliette • Leader Title2 — Prov. riding • Leader Name2 — Joliette • Area Total Km2 — 78.30 • Area Land Km2 — 76.10 • Population Total — 3250 • Population As Of — 2021 • Population Density Km2 — 42.7 • Population Blank1 Title — Pop 2016-2021 • Population Blank1 — 8.7% • Population Blank2 Title — Dwellings • Population Blank2 — 1518 • Timezone — EST • Utc Offset — −5 • Timezone Dst — EDT • Utc Offset Dst — −4 • Postal Code Type — Postal code(s) • Postal Code — J0K 3A0 • Area Codes — 450 and 579 • Blank Name — Highways • Website — www.sainte-melanie.ca Sainte-Mélanie (sɛ̃t melani) is a municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Joliette Regional County Municipality. It is located along the western shores of the L'Assomption River.

Sainte-Mélanie was formerly part of the territory of the Ailleboust Seignory, granted to Jean d'Ailleboust d'Argenteuil (1694-1785) in 1736. By 1800, Pierre-Louis Panet (1761-1812) was Lord of Ailleboust, whose daughter Charlotte-Mélanie Panet (1794-1872) may have been the source of the name Sainte-Mélanie, also a reference to Melania the Younger (383-439). Charlotte-Mélanie's husband, Marc-Antoine-Louis Lévesque (1782-1833), donated the land in 1814 for a chapel that was eventually built in 1830. The Parish of Sainte-Mélanie was founded in 1832, and four years later in 1836, the post office opened under the name Daillebout. The municipality officially started in 1845, was soon after abolished, and reestablished in 1855 as Sainte-Mélanie-d'Ailleboust. In 1881, the post office was renamed to Sainte-Mélanie, and more than a century later in 1986, the municipality followed suit by also adopting this shortened name.

Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 1,394 (total dwellings: 1,518) Mother tongue: • English as first language: 0.9% • French as first language: 97.8% • English and French as first language: 0% • Other as first language: 1.3%

Commission scolaire des Samares operates francophone public schools, including: • École Sainte-Hélène The Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board operates anglophone public schools, including: • Joliette Elementary School in Saint-Charles-Borromée • Joliette High School in Joliette

• Aimé Pelletier (1914-2010), surgeon and well-known Quebec novelist, under the pen name of Bertrand Vac. Pelletier, who spent the majority of his professional career in Montreal, is interred with his ancestors at the Sainte-Mélanie cemetery. • Louise-Amélie Panet (1789-1862), artist and poet, wife of the seigneur of Ailleboust, died in Sainte-Mélanie; the public library there is named in her honour.