Saint-Benoît-Labre, Quebec

Saint-Benoît-Labre
—  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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