Saint-Gédéon or is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

, Canada, in the regional county municipality of Lac-Saint-Jean-Est and the administrative region of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean. It is on the eastern shore of

Lac Saint-Jean Lac Saint-Jean (Canadian French: ) is a large, relatively shallow lake in south-central Quebec, Canada, in the Laurentian Highlands. It is situated north of the Saint Lawrence River, into which it drains via the Saguenay River. It covers an area ...

at the mouth of the Belle River.

Demographics

Population trend:Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census * Population in 2011: 2001 (2006 to 2011 population change: 3.6%) * Population in 2006: 2351 * Population in 2001: 2392 * Population in 1996: 1760 * Population in 1991: 1640 Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 846 (total dwellings: 1181) Mother tongue: * English as first language: 0.5% * French as first language: 99.5% * English and French as first language: 0% * Other as first language: 0%

Religion

According to the

Institut de la statistique du Québec The Institut de la statistique du Québec (or Quebec Statistical Institute in translation) is the governmental statistics agency of Quebec. It is responsible for producing, analyzing, and publishing official statistics to enhance knowledge, discu ...

, Roman Catholicism had adherents in the municipality in 2001, with more than 96% of the population concentrated in one parish, Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue. There were 55

atheists Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no d ...

(3%), and 15 Protestants (1%). Residents of Saint-Gédéon belonging to other

religion Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, ...

s represented less than 1% of the population. There is a Roman Catholic cemetery, cimetière Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue. Saint-Gédéon has a

permanent deacon A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christian churches that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions. Major Christian churches, such as the Catholic Chur ...

, Daniel Audy,

M.A. A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Tho ...

, who was ordained by Mgr Couture, on June 7, 1991 of the feast day of the Sacred Heart.

Culture

Louis Hémon Louis Hémon (12 October 1880 – 8 July 1913), was a French writer best known for his novel ''Maria Chapdelaine''. Biography He was born in Brest, France. In Paris, where he resided with his family, he was enrolled in the Montaigne and Loui ...

wrote the first draft of ''

Maria Chapdelaine ''Maria Chapdelaine'' is a romance novel written in 1913 by the Breton writer Louis Hémon, who was then residing in Quebec.Guy Laflèche. Polémiques'. Editions du Singulier; 1992. . p. 126 – 128. Aimed at young French and Quebecois people ...

'' while staying in Saint-Gédéon in 1912.

Transportation

The Blueberry Cycling Route (''La véloroute des Bleuets'' in French), part of the

Route Verte The ''Route Verte'' (in English, the "Green Route," or the "Greenway") is a network of bicycling and multiuse trails and designated roads, lanes, and surfaces, spanning as of October 31, 2013, in the Canadian province of Quebec, inaugurated on Augu ...

, goes through Saint-Gédéon.

Images

Image:Saint-Gédéon - Québec - Pont Charles-Eugène-Couture.jpg, Charles-Eugène-Couture Bridge ( Route 170) over the Belle Rivière Image:Saint-Gédéon - Québec - Église Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue.jpg, Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue Church

References

Commission de toponymie du Québec

Affaires municipales et régions - cartes régionales

Bibliography

French

* Christine Côté, ''Louanges d'un siècle'', St-Gédéon: Paroisse Saint-Antoine, 1984, 94 pages * Johanne Laberge et collaborateurs, ''Itinéraire toponymique du Saguenay Lac St-Jean '', Commission de toponymie du Québec, 1983, 101 pages * René Raymond, ''Pédologie de la région du Lac-Saint-Jean'', Québec : Ministère de l'agriculture et de la colonisation, Division des sols, 1965, 157 pages * Mère Sainte-Hélène, N.D.B.C., ''Saint-Gédéon de Grandmont célèbre son centenaire, 1864-1964'', Saint-Gédéon, 1964, 184 pages * Victor Tremblay, « Saint-Gédéon », ''Saguenayensia'' Volume 6, numéro 3, mai-juin 1964, page 64 * . *

External links

Site officiel de la fête nationale à Saint-Gédéon
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