Gore, Quebec is a township municipality nestled within the Argenteuil Regional County Municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec. The main community in this township is Lakefield.
Gore, Quebec is situated in the Laurentian Mountains, a region known for its rugged Canadian Shield. The elevation in this area varies between 168 meters (551 ft) and 427 meters (1,401 ft). The terrain is characterized by forested mountains and numerous streams and lakes.
Notable lakes in Gore, Quebec include Barron, Hughes, Chevreuil, aux Oiseaux, Solar, Caroline, Evans, Dawson, Clark, Grace, Sugarloaf, Clair, and Carruthers. While many of these lakes have been developed over the years, there are still many that have little or no construction to date.
The majority of Gore, Quebec's territory is covered by old-growth forests with a wide variety of species both deciduous and coniferous, such as birch, poplar, sugar maple, beech, white pine, fir, spruce, hemlock, and cedar.
The Gore Township was established in 1840 and was named after Francis Gore (1769–1852), Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada from 1806 to 1811 and from 1815 to 1817. The area was colonized by Scottish and Irish settlers, such as Robert Smith and James Stephenson.
In 1845, the Gore Municipality was formed, abolished two years later, and restored in 1855. In 1853, Gore, Quebec had about 1000 inhabitants but this dropped to about 800 people ten years later, almost all of Irish origin. The Gore Post Office operated between 1898 and 1958.
According to the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Gore, Quebec had a population of 2,283 living in 1,124 of its 1,615 total private dwellings. This was a change of 19.9% from its 2016 population of 1,904. With a land area of 90.04 km2 (34.76 sq mi), it had a population density of 25.4/km2 (65.7/sq mi) in 2021.
In terms of language, 17.8% of the population reported English as their first language, while 76.8% reported French as their first language. A small percentage (2.2%) reported both English and French as their first language, and 3.1% reported another language as their first language.
