Saint-Benoît-Labre

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Saint-Benoît-Labre
Municipality
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Location within Beauce-Sartigan RCM.
Location within Beauce-Sartigan RCM.
Country  Canada
Province  Quebec
Region Chaudière-Appalaches
RCM Beauce-Sartigan
Constituted January 4, 1894
Government[1]
 • Mayor Marco Marois
 • Federal riding Beauce
 • Prov. riding Beauce-Sud
Area[1][2]
 • Total 86.90 km2 (33.55 sq mi)
 • Land 84.99 km2 (32.81 sq mi)
Population (2011)[2]
 • Total 1,612
 • Density 19.0/km2 (49/sq mi)
 • Pop 2006-2011 Decrease 0.1%
 • Dwellings 735
Time zone EST (UTC−5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC−4)
Postal code(s) G0M 1P0
Area code(s) 418 and 581
Highways Route 271
Website www.saint
benoitlabre.qc.ca

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.

In 2001 a group of Cistercian nuns moved from Saint-Romuald, Quebec to a newly constructed abbey in Saint-Benoît-Labre, where they make chocolate.

The territory of Saint-Benoît-Labre surrounds the village of Lac-Poulin.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Geographic code 29100 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (French)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Reference number 285906 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (French)



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