Between 1986 and 2001, the population of Cowansville grew from 11,643 to 12,032.
While one quarter of its’ population is under 20 years of age, (the provincial average is 24%) if current tendencies were to continue, the percentage of young people in Cowansville as in the province as a whole would continue to decrease.
In 2001, 83,9 % of the population of Cowansville used French as its main spoken language.
L’Encyclopédie de l’histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia
, a village in Missisquoi county, Quebec, on the Canadian Pacific Railway, 24 miles south-west of Waterloo, and on the southern branch of the Yamaska river.
It was originally known as Nelsonville, in memory of Lord Nelson; but the present name was substituted, in honour of Peter Cowan, the first postmaster in the locality.
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