La Corne
La Corne is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec in Abitibi Regional County Municipality.
The place is named in honour of Louis de La Corne, a French naval officer who was wounded in the Battle of Sainte-Foy in 1760. Until 1978, the place name was incorrectly spelled as Lacorne.
From 1955 to 1965, La Corne was home to Canada's only lithium mine. The underground mine had a deep shaft and lateral workings on three levels, and provided lithium to the glass and ceramics industries. With the advent of lithium batteries for electric cars and a myriad of consumer electronic products, the mine is currently being studied for reopening in late 2012 as an open-pit mine.Demographics
Population trend:
- Population in 2011: 700
- Population in 2006: 682
- Population in 2001: 629
- Population in 1996: 621
- Population in 1991: 616
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 283
Mother tongue:
- English as first language: 1.5%
- French as first language: 98.5%
- English and French as first language: 0%
- Other as first language: 0%
- Mayor: Michel Lévesque
- Councillors: André Beauchemin, Éric Comeau, André Gélinas, Michel Larouche, Martin St-Pierre, Véronique Veilleux
