Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce, Quebec

Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce
Municipality

Location within Beauce-Sartigan RCM.
Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce

Location in southern Quebec.

Coordinates: 45°51′N 70°38′W / 45.850°N 70.633°W / 45.850; -70.633Coordinates: 45°51′N 70°38′W / 45.850°N 70.633°W / 45.850; -70.633[1]
Country  Canada
Province  Quebec
Region Chaudière-Appalaches
RCM Beauce-Sartigan
Constituted February 12, 2003
Government[2]
 • Mayor Eric Lachance
 • Federal riding Beauce
 • Prov. riding Beauce-Sud
Area[2][3]
 • Total 200.00 km2 (77.22 sq mi)
 • Land 196.99 km2 (76.06 sq mi)
Population (2011)[3]
 • Total 2,277
 • Density 11.6/km2 (30/sq mi)
 • Pop 2006-2011 Decrease 3.1%
 • Dwellings 928
Time zone EST (UTC−5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC−4)
Postal code(s) G0M 1T0
Area code(s) 418 and 581
Highways Route 204
Route 269
Website www.st-gedeon-
de-beauce.qc.ca

Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce is a municipality in the Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 2,343 as of 2009. It is named after biblical judge Gideon.

The municipality was created in February 2003 after the merging of the parish municipality of Saint-Gédéon and the municipality of Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce.[4] The two had split in 1950.

Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce is a site of Canam, one of the largest steel joist factories in Canada.

Notable personalities

Novelist Jacques Poulin was born in Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce.

Trivia

Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce is the only municipality whose territory straddles the Chaudière River that does not have a bridge across it.

References

  1. ↑ Reference number 218972 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (French)
  2. 1 2 Geographic code 29013 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (French)
  3. 1 2 "(Code 2429013) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.
  4. ↑ http://www.stat.gouv.qc.ca/publications/referenc/pdf/Modfev03.pdf


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