Forestville is a town in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. It is located on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River along Route 138, approximately 103 kilometres (64 mi) southwest of Baie-Comeau. There is a vehicle and passenger ferry service from Forestville to Rimouski, on the south shore of the St. Lawrence that is over 50 kilometres (31 mi) wide at this point.^[4] The city operates the Forestville Airport.

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Forestville
City
Motto:  Per sylvam ("Through the forest")
Location within La Haute-Côte-Nord RCM.
Forestville Location in Côte-Nord region of Quebec.
Coordinates: 48°44′N 69°05′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Côte-Nord
RCM	La Haute-Côte-Nord
Settled	1844
Constituted	January 5, 1980
Government [2]
• Mayor	Micheline Anctil
• Federal riding	Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île d'Orléans—Charlevoix
• Prov. riding	René-Lévesque
Area [2][3]
• Total	242.70 km2 (93.71 sq mi)
• Land	192.61 km2 (74.37 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[3]
• Total	2,892
• Density	15/km2 (40/sq mi)
• Pop 2016-2021	6.1%
• Dwellings	1,577
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0T 1E0
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Highways	R-138 R-385
Website	www.forestville.ca

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Forestville is known for its hunting and fishing: moose hunting season is popular and there are many lakes and rivers to fish in as well as beaches and camping spots for the summer and cross country skiing in the winter. It is also host to the Boréal Loppet which is a cross-country skiing race with varying distances including 60 km. It also hosted the longest cross-country ski race in the world, at 103 km, from 2005 to 2011.

The area was well known to the First Nations, while the first European settlers arrived in 1844 following the construction of a sawmill by Edward Selvin, of Les Éboulements. In 1849, the mill was sold to William Price. One of the superintendents of the Price Company was Grant William Forrest (died November 15, 1878), after whom the new settlement was named. As written by Surveyor P.H. Dumais in 1873, the little village, "with its chapel and its windmills", was originally spelled Forrest-Ville, but the English version of his text showed the spelling Forestville. Being at the mouth of the Sault aux Cochons River, the place was also alternatively known as Sault-au-Cochon.^[1]

The Price Company owned large tracts of land in the area and prospered between 1870 and 1885, but went into decline about 1885, leading to the mill's closure in 1890. In 1937, the Forestville Post Office opened. That same year the forest industry was revitalized when the Anglo-Canadian Pulp & Paper Mills Company built a new mill, and in 1942, built the Arboriduc log flume that carried logs for several kilometers to the port at the mouth of the Sault aux Cochons River. Subsequently, the Town of Forestville and the Municipality of Saint-Luc-de-Laval were established in 1944 and in 1950 respectively.^[1][5]

In 1980, Forestville and Saint-Luc-de-Laval were merged to form the new Town of Forestville.^[1]

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Forestville had a population of 2,892 living in 1,476 of its 1,577 total private dwellings, a change of -6.1% from its 2016 population of 3,081. With a land area of 192.61 km² (74.37 sq mi), it had a population density of 15.0/km² (38.9/sq mi) in 2021.^[6]

Population trend:^[7]

• Population in 2021: 2892 (2016 to 2021 population change: -6.1%)
• Population in 2016: 3081
• Population in 2011: 3270
• Population in 2006: 3543
• Population in 2001: 3748
• Population in 1996: 3894
• Population in 1991: 3946

Mother tongue:

• English as first language: 0.3%
• French as first language: 99.1%
• English and French as first language: 0%
• Other as first language: 0.6%

Forestville has a humid continental climate (Dfb under the Köppen climate classification).^[8] Summers are mild to warm and rainy with cool nights. Winters are long, very cold, and extremely snowy.

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