Beauceville is a city in, and the seat of, the
Municipalité régionale de comté Beauce-Centre in
Quebec
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,
Canada
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. 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 Beauce may refer to:
* Beauce, France, a natural region in northern France
* Beaucé, a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department, Brittany, France
* Beauce, Quebec, an historical and cultural region of Canada
** Beauce (electoral district), a fed ...
to be constituted as a city when it detached from Saint-François-de-Beauce in 1904.
Geography
Covering an area of 164.56 km2, Beauceville extends on both banks of the
Chaudière River, 85 km south of
Quebec City
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, 55 km from the border of the US state of
Maine
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and 150 km from
Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke ( ; ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional cou ...
.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
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 , it had a population density of in 2021.
Transportation
Autoroute 73 crosses Beauceville's territory at exit 61.
Notable people
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William Chapman, poet born in Saint-François-de-Beauce
*
Nicole Jolicoeur, artist
*
Jeanne St. Laurent, wife to former Prime Minister
Louis St. Laurent
*
Stéphane Veilleux
Stéphane Veilleux (born November 16, 1981) is a Canadians, Canadian former professional ice hockey Winger (ice hockey), left winger. He most notably played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Minnesota Wild, Tampa Bay Lightning and the ...
,
National Hockey League
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player
*
Marie-Philip Poulin
Marie-Philip Poulin-Nadeau (born March 28, 1991) is a Canadian ice hockey forward, currently with the PWHPA and who serves as captain of the Canadian national team. A three-time Olympic and three-time World champion with the Canadian national ...
, hockey player, Olympic Gold Medalist (
2010,
2014
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2022
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)
References
Commission de toponymie du QuébecMinistère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire
External links
Ville de Beauceville
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Incorporated places in Chaudière-Appalaches
Cities and towns in Quebec