Saint-Benoît-Labre | |
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— Municipality — | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Chaudière-Appalaches |
Constitution | 1894 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Léonide Grenier |
• MPs | Maxime Bernier |
• MNAs | Robert Dutil |
Area | |
• Total | 83.92 km2 (32.4 sq mi) |
Population (2009) | |
• Total | 1,630 |
• Density | 19.4/km2 (50/sq mi) |
Time zone | EST (UTC-5) |
• Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
Postal code | G0M 1P0 |
Area code(s) | 418 |
Saint-Benoît-Labre is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Beauce-Sartigan in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 1,630 as of 2009. It is named after Benedict Joseph Labre.
Since 2001, a group of Cistercian nuns from Saint-Romuald, Quebec, moved to a newly-constructed abbey in Saint-Benoît-Labre to make chocolate.
The territory of Saint-Benoît-Labre surrounds the village of Lac-Poulin.
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