Saint-Jean-Baptiste 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 ...

in the

Montérégie Montérégie () is an administrative region in the southwest part of Quebec. It includes the cities of Boucherville, Brossard, Châteauguay, Longueuil, Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield and Vaudreuil-Dorion. ...

region of

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 ...

, a Canadian province. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 3,191. It is located within

La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality La Vallée-du-Richelieu ''(The Valley of the Richelieu)'' is a regional county municipality in the Montérégie region in southwestern Quebec, Canada. Its seat is McMasterville. It surrounds the Richelieu River as the river flows north from Lake ...

in a valley between

Mont Saint-Hilaire Mont Saint-Hilaire (English: Mount Saint-Hilaire; abe, Wigwômadenizibo; see for other names) is an isolated hill, high, in the Montérégie region of southern Quebec. It is about thirty kilometres east of Montreal, and immediately east of the ...

and Mont Rougemont. On November 4, 1998 it moved from Rouville Regional County Municipality to La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality.

Demographics

Population

Population trend:

Education

The

South Shore Protestant Regional School Board The South Shore Protestant Regional School Board (SSPRSB) was a Protestant Christian school district in Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It served the South Shore (Montreal), South Shore region and it was headquartered in St. Lambert. The distric ...

previously served the municipality.King, M.J. (Chairperson of the board).
South Shore Protestant Regional School Board
(St. Johns, PQ). ''

The News and Eastern Townships Advocate The ''News and Eastern Townships Advocate'' is a newspaper based in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Qu ...

''. Volume 119, No. 5. Thursday December 16, 1965. p. 2. Retrieved from Google News on November 23, 2014.

Language

Mother tongue language (2006)2006 Statistics Canada Community Profile: Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Quebec
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Photo gallery

Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Québec)-Immeuble sur la rue Principale devant Hotel-de-ville-2022-06-14.jpg, Community center located opposite the church, on Principale Street Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Québec)-Église façade avant-2022-06-14.jpg, church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste and the mass grave Mont St-Hilaire-Vue de la route 227 à Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Rouville-2022-06-14.jpg, View of Mont Saint-Hilaire and crop fields from Route 229 (north of the village of Saint-Jean-Baptiste) Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Québec)-Hotel-de-ville-façade avant-2022-06-14.jpg, View of the front facade of the town hall, located next to the church Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Québec)-Panneau de signalisation devant l'Hotel-de-ville-2022-06-14.jpg, Information panel installed in front of the town hall Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Québec)-rue Principale-coin ch. Rouville-vue vers le nord-2022-06-14.jpg, View of rue Principale (near the corner of chemin de Rouville), on the south side of the village Saint-Jean-Baptiste-Vue du clocher avec le Mont-Saint-Hilaire en arrière-plan-2022-06-14.jpg, view of Mont Saint-Hilaire (in the background) and the steeple of the church of the village of Saint-Jean-Baptiste

References

External links

Municipalité Saint-Jean-Baptiste
{{Authority control Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality