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Beauceville


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nameBeauceville
settlement_typeCity
image_skylineVue aérienne - Beauceville.jpg
image_captionAerial view of Beauceville
image_shieldBlason ville ca Beauceville (Québec).svg
shield_size100px
image_mapBeauceville Quebec location diagram.png
map_captionLocation within Beauce-Centre RCM
pushpin_mapCanada Southern Quebec
pushpin_map_captionLocation in southern Quebec
coordinates
coordinates_footnotes
subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1Province
subdivision_name1
subdivision_type2Region
subdivision_name2Chaudière-Appalaches
subdivision_type3RCM
subdivision_name3Beauce-Centre
established_title1Constituted
established_date1February 25, 1998
government_footnotes
leader_titleMayor
leader_namePatrick Mathieu
leader_title1Federal riding
leader_name1Beauce
leader_title2Prov. riding
leader_name2Beauce-Nord
area_footnotes
area_total_km2166.20
area_land_km2164.59
elevation_footnotes
population_footnotes
population_total6185
population_as_of2021
population_density_km237.6
population_blank1_titlePop 2016-2021
population_blank11.7%
population_blank2_titleDwellings
population_blank22875
timezoneEST
utc_offset−5
timezone_DSTEDT
utc_offset_DST−4
postal_code_typePostal code(s)
postal_codeG5X
area_codes418 and 581
blank_nameHighways
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website

Beauceville () is a city in, and the seat of, the Municipalité régionale de comté Beauce-Centre in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population was 6,185 as of the Canada 2021 Census.

Beauceville's new constitution dates from 1998, when it amalgamated with Saint-François-Ouest and Saint-François-de-Beauce. The previous city was also the creation of a merging between Beauceville and Beauceville-Est, distinction made because each shared a bank of the Chaudière River. Beauceville was the first municipality in Beauce to be constituted as a city when it detached from Saint-François-de-Beauce in 1904.

History

Before its creation, the territory where Beauceville currently sits was known as Saint-François-de-la-Beauce. The actual city of Beauceville was formed in 1904, when it split from the municipality of Saint-François. In 1930 it lost some of its territory, when the city of Beauceville-Est was created, but regained it in 1973 when Beauceville-Est merged with Beauceville. In 1998 Beauceville gained significant territories, when it annexed the neighbouring municipalities of Saint-François-de-Beauce (the municipality from which Beauceville had originally split) and Saint-François-Ouest. Throughout its history, Beauceville has suffered from spring floods of the Chaudière River, and many streets of the municipality have been repeatedly inundated, causing great damage.

In recent years, Beauceville has seen economic prosperity. The municipality has more than 25 manufacturing companies and its industrial park is expanding and welcoming many new companies.

Geography

Covering an area of 164.56 km2, Beauceville extends on both banks of the Chaudière River, 85 km south of Quebec City, 55 km from the border of the US state of Maine and 150 km from Sherbrooke.

Neighbourhoods

  • Beauceville-Est
  • Centre-ville
  • Saint-François-de-Beauce
  • Saint-François-Ouest

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Beauceville had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 164.59 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Infrastructure

Autoroute 73 crosses Beauceville's territory at exit 61.

Notable people

  • William Chapman, poet born in Saint-François-de-Beauce
  • Nicole Jolicoeur, artist
  • Marie-Philip Poulin, Professional Women's Hockey League player, Olympic gold medallist (2010, 2014, 2022)
  • Jeanne St. Laurent, wife to former Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent
  • Stéphane Veilleux, National Hockey League player

References

References

  1. (February 9, 2022). "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Quebec". [[Statistics Canada]].
  2. (9 February 2022). "Data table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Beauceville, Ville (V) [Census subdivision], Quebec".
  3. {{mamrot. 27028
  4. {{toponymie. 341186
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