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Lawrenceville, Quebec

Lawrenceville is a village municipality in the Le Val-Saint-François Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada.

It is situated west of Sherbrooke, near the Black River. Around 650 Lawrence villagers live in an area of 17 square kilometres.

The name of the village honours Mr. Henry Lawrence, son of Isaac Lawrence, who originally came from Canaan, Connecticut, and moved to Shefford Township in 1794 settling his family near Lake Waterloo between Fulford and Waterloo. In 1800, the Township of Stukely was created, and Henry and his brother Erastus became Samuel Willard's associates, and both moved to South Stukely in 1804. Erastus died eight years later. In 1836 Henry Lawrence moved to the northern part of Stukely and built a sawmill and flourmill on an island, which became part of Lawrenceville, although the Village of Lawrenceville was not constituted until 1905 by detachment of the municipality from the township of North-Stukely. Only remains of the building can still be found on Henry's Island, but two dwellings still exist: dating from the 19th century, that is the Island Park House of Victorian style and another house, with a double-slope roof.

Henry died in 1864, surviving his first wife, Polly Day, daughter of Pelatiah and Hannah (Curtis) Day. He remarried to Elizabeth Lewis, daughter of the precursor of Waterloo, Captain Ezekiel Lewis, and his wife, Abigail Gibbs.

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lawrenceville had a population of 618 living in 283 of its 295 total private dwellings, a change of -2.7% from its 2016 population of 635. With a land area of 16.73 km2 (6.46 sq mi), it had a population density of 36.9/km2 (95.7/sq mi) in 2021.

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