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Its main attraction is Mont-Rigaud, a small mountain with downhill ski runs, a private school (Collège Bourget), a monestary, and a shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary (Sanctuaire Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes). The mountain is also home to an unusual, natural rock garden known as the "champs de patates", so named because of the local legend that it was once a potato field, turned to stone by God because the farmer worked on the Sabbath. Also located in Rigaud is a training center for the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency.

According to the 2001 Statistics Canada Census:

• Population: 6,095
• % Change ( 1996 – 2001): 0.6
• Dwellings: 2,666
• Area (sq. km.): 99.08
• Density (persons per sq. km.): 61.5

Communities

• Dragon
• Rigaud