Sainte-Marie () is a city in the province of
Quebec
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, Canada. It is the seat of
La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality
La Nouvelle-Beauce (, ''New Beauce'') is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region in southeastern Quebec, Canada, south of the Saint Lawrence River. It is located south of Lévis, Quebec, Lévis, along the Chaudière Ri ...
, in
Chaudière-Appalaches
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,
Quebec
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, Canada. It had a population was 13,134 as of the
Canada 2021 Census
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, when 95.7% was French-speaking. It is located south-east of
Quebec City
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, on the
Chaudière River
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.
History
The ''
seigneurie
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'' Nulle terre sans seigneur'' ("No land without a lord") ...
'' of Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce was granted to
Thomas-Jacques Taschereau
Thomas-Jacques Taschereau (; August 26, 1680 – September 25, 1749) was the patriarch of the illustrious Taschereau family in New France (Canada). It is believed that he may have come from some level of nobility in France and his family descended ...
in 1736. He chose the name in honour of his wife, Marie-Claire de Fleury de La Gorgendière. The religious parish was founded in 1737 and the municipality in 1845.
The territory of Sainte-Marie was divided on several occasions, as population increased, in order to found neighbouring communities:
Saint-Bernard,
Saint-Isidore, Saint-Maxime-de-Scott (now
Scott
Scott may refer to:
Places
Canada
* Scott, Quebec, municipality in the Nouvelle-Beauce regional municipality in Quebec
* Scott, Saskatchewan, a town in the Rural Municipality of Tramping Lake No. 380
* Rural Municipality of Scott No. 98, Sas ...
),
Sainte-Marguerite,
Sainte-Hénédine,
Saint-Sylvestre,
Saint-Elzéar,
Saint-Séverin,
Saints-Anges, and
Vallée-Jonction.
In 1913, the territory was split again, following the detachment of the village (urban part of the territory) from the parish municipality (rural part). In 1958, the village was constituted as a city and in 1959, Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce was renamed as Sainte-Marie. In 1978, the city and the parish municipality governments amalgamated.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Sainte-Marie had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Sister cities
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Pont-du-Château,
Auvergne
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As of 2016 Auvergne is no longer an administrative division of France. It is generally regarded as conterminous with the land area of the historical Province of Auvergne, which was dis ...
, France
Notable people
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Marius Barbeau
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, ethnographer
*
Elzéar-Henri Juchereau Duchesnay, Canadian politician
*
Ernest Savard
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, hockey executive, head coach, general manager (
Montreal Canadiens
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)
*
Nycole Turmel, Canadian politician
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Henri-Jules Juchereau Duchesnay, Canadian politician
*
Gabriel-Elzéar Taschereau, Quebec politician
*
Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau
Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau (; February 17, 1820 – April 12, 1898) was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1871 until his death in 1898. The first Canadian cardinal, he was elevated to the ...
, clergyman
*
Henri Elzéar Taschereau
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People French nobles
* Henri I de Montmorency (1534–1614), Marshal and Constable of France
* ...
, lawyer
*
Jean-Thomas Taschereau, lawyer
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Joseph-André Taschereau, judge
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Pierre-Elzéar Taschereau, Canadian politician
*
Thomas Linière Taschereau, Canadian politician
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Mario Gosselin,
NASCAR
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driver
*
Thomas Chabot
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, ice hockey defenceman for the
NHL
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’s
Ottawa Senators
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