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Saint-Flavien
Saint-Flavien () is a municipality in the Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and had a population is 1,619 as of 2021. The municipality, constituted in 1999, covers an area of 66 km2, with a population density of 25. It is named after Archbishop In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office. In most cases, such as the Catholic Church, there are many archbishops who either have jurisdiction over an ecclesiastical province in addition to their own archdi ... Pierre-Flavien Turgeon and was created from the merger of the parish and the village of the same name. History Although the new constitution dates from 1999as a result of the merger of the Parish and of the Village of Saint-Flavien, the area has been settled since 1800. The original territory of Saint-Flavien, part of the '' seigneurie'' of Sainte-Croix, was split several times for the creation of the communities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Apollinaire, Quebec
Saint-Apollinaire () is a municipality in the Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and had a population is 7,968 as of 2021. It is named after Apollinaris of Ravenna, Saint Apollinaris (). History In 1738, Angélique le Gardeur, the daughter of the seigneur of Tilly, became a widow and was granted a seigneury, which she called Seigniory of Gaspé, after her late husband. It was located south of the Seigneury of Tilly and included what is now Saint-Apollinaire. In 1806, a road crossing the territory of the Seigneury of Gaspé was opened between Saint-Nicolas, Quebec, Saint-Nicolas (now in Lévis, Quebec, Lévis) and Saint-Gilles, Quebec, Saint-Gilles and allowed the development of the Lotbinière County. The municipality was canonically imposed on November 23, 1853. On July 1, 1855, the parish municipality of Saint-Apollinaire was officially founded. The territory then grew rapidly. Then followed the constructio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurier-Station, Quebec
Laurier-Station () is a village municipality (Quebec), village municipality in Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population is 2,570 as of the Canada 2021 Census. It is named after its train station, Laurier, which is itself named in honour of Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier. It is also the town where the professional hockey player David Desharnais was born. History Laurier-Station was originally part of Saint-Flavien but split away in 1951 to become a municipality of its own. The railway station, built in 1880, launched the development of the region. In the 1950s, the advent of the Trans-Canada Highway and furniture manufacturing industries propelled the town's development. Demographics In the 2021 Canadian census, 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Laurier-Station had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of G Postal Codes Of Canada
__NOTOC__ This is a list of postal codes in Canada where the first letter is G. Postal codes beginning with G are located within the Canadian province of Quebec. Only the first three characters are listed, corresponding to the Canadian postal code#Forward sortation areas, Forward Sortation Area (FSA). Canada Post provides a free postal code look-up tool on its website, via its mobile apps for such smartphones as the iPhone and BlackBerry, and sells hard-copy directories and CD-ROMs. Many vendors also sell validation tools, which allow customers to properly match addresses and postal codes. Hard-copy directories can also be consulted in all post offices, and some libraries. Eastern Quebec There are currently 140 FSAs in this list. Urban Rural References {{Canadian postal codes Communications in Quebec Quebec-related lists, Postal codes G Postal codes in Canada, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Area Codes 418 And 581
Area codes 418, 581, and 367 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the eastern portion of the Canadian province of Quebec. Area code 418 was originally assigned to the numbering plan area, but all three area codes now form an overlay plan for this territory. Cities in the numbering plan area include Quebec City, Saguenay, Lévis, Rimouski, Saint-Georges, Alma, Thetford Mines, Sept-Îles, Baie-Comeau and Rivière-du-Loup. Also served are the Gaspé Peninsula, Côte-Nord, southeastern Mauricie, and the tiny hamlet of Estcourt Station, in the U.S. state of Maine. History Ontario and Quebec were the only provinces that received assignments of multiple area codes by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) when the original North American area codes were created in 1947. The eastern part of Quebec received area code 418, while area code 514 was assigned for the western part. Nominally, northwestern Quebec, one of the few a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dosquet, Quebec
Dosquet () is a municipality in Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population was 935 as of the Canada 2021 Census. Known officially until 1996 as Saint-Octave-de-Dosquet, the post office was named simply Dosquet in 1913, after Pierre-Herman Dosquet, fourth bishop A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of di ... of Quebec. References External links * Commission de toponymie du Québec [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lotbinière-Frontenac (provincial Electoral District)
Lotbinière-Frontenac is a provincial electoral district in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, which elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It consists of the entirety of Lotbinière Regional County Municipality and nearly all of Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality. It includes the municipalities of Thetford Mines, Saint-Apollinaire, Quebec, Saint-Apollinaire, Saint-Agapit, Quebec, Saint-Agapit, Saint-Gilles, Quebec, Saint-Gilles, Adstock, Quebec, Adstock, Laurier-Station, Quebec, Laurier-Station, Sainte-Croix, Quebec, Sainte-Croix, East Broughton, Quebec, East Broughton and Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine. It was created for the 2012 Quebec general election, 2012 election from parts of the former Lotbinière (provincial electoral district), Lotbinière and Frontenac (provincial electoral district), Frontenac electoral districts; Saint-Fortunat, Quebec, Saint-Fortunat was also taken from Richmond (Quebec provincial electoral district), Richmond electoral di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Janvier-de-Joly, Quebec
Saint-Janvier-de-Joly () is a municipality in Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and had a population is 1,079 as of 2021. It is named after Reverend Janvier Lachance, a missionary A missionary is a member of a Religious denomination, religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.Thoma ..., who served the parish from 1914 to 1926. "Joly" honours Quebec Premier Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, the owner of the '' seigneurie'' of Lotbinière, which included Saint-Janvier-de-Joly. The post office, opened in 1924, is called Joly, name under which the municipality is most commonly known. References Commission de toponymie du Québec [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lotbinière Regional County Municipality
Lotbinière () is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec. It is an almost exclusively rural RCM, with no village with a population above 4,000. As of the 2016 Canadian census, the RCM had a population of 31,741. Its seat is in Sainte-Croix, Quebec, Sainte-Croix. Subdivisions There are 18 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Municipalities (14) * Dosquet, Quebec, Dosquet * Leclercville, Quebec, Leclercville * Lotbinière, Quebec, Lotbinière * Saint-Agapit, Quebec, Saint-Agapit * Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Quebec, Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly * Saint-Apollinaire, Quebec, Saint-Apollinaire * Sainte-Agathe-de-Lotbinière, Quebec, Sainte-Agathe-de-Lotbinière * Sainte-Croix, Quebec, Sainte-Croix * Saint-Flavien, Quebec, Saint-Flavien * Saint-Gilles, Quebec, Saint-Gilles * Saint-Janvier-de-Joly, Quebec, Saint-Janvier-de-Joly * Saint-Patrice-de-Beaurivage, Quebec, Saint-Patrice-de-Beaurivage * Saint-Sylvestre, Quebec, Saint-Sylvestre * Val-Alain, Quebec, Val-Ala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Janvier-de-Joly
Saint-Janvier-de-Joly () is a municipality in Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and had a population is 1,079 as of 2021. It is named after Reverend Janvier Lachance, a missionary, who served the parish from 1914 to 1926. "Joly" honours Quebec Premier Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, the owner of the ''seigneurie In English law, seignory or seigniory, spelled ''signiory'' in Early Modern English (; ; ), is the lordship (authority) remaining to a grantor after the grant of an estate in fee simple. '' Nulle terre sans seigneur'' ("No land without a lord") ...'' of Lotbinière, which included Saint-Janvier-de-Joly. The post office, opened in 1924, is called Joly, name under which the municipality is most commonly known. References Commission de toponymie du Québec [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Agapit, Quebec
Saint-Agapit () is a municipality in the Lotbinière Regional County Municipality, in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and had a population is 4,526 as of 2021. It is named after Pope Agapetus I. It is the hometown of retired National Hockey League forward Antoine Vermette, who brought the Stanley Cup to the town in July 2015 after he won it while playing for Chicago. Film director Richard Roy's childhood in Saint-Agapit was the inspiration for his autobiographical 2011 film, ''Frisson des Collines''. Demographics Population trend:Statistics Canada: 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ... census * Population in 2021: 4,526 (2016 to 2021 population change: 5.7%) * Population in 2016: 4,2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lévis—Lotbinière
Lévis—Lotbinière (formerly Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière) is a federal electoral district (Canada), electoral district in the provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004. It was created in 2003 from parts of Lévis (federal electoral district), Lévis-et-Chutes-de-la-Chaudière and Lotbinière—L'Érable ridings. Geography Located southwest of Quebec City along the Saint Lawrence River, the riding includes parts of the city's south shore suburbs. It consists of: * the Regional County Municipality of Lotbinière; * the part of the City of Lévis comprising: the former cities of Saint-Nicolas, Quebec, Saint-Nicolas, Charny, Quebec, Charny, Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Lévis, Quebec, Saint-Jean-Chrysostome and Saint-Rédempteur, Quebec, Saint-Rédempteur, the former Municipality of Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon, Quebec, Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon, and the former Parish Municipality of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
