Saint-Léonard is a community in
Madawaska County
Madawaska County (2016 population 32,741), also known as the "New Brunswick Panhandle", is located in northwestern New Brunswick, Canada. Over 90% of the county's population speaks French. Its Francophone population are known as "Brayons." Fore ...
,
New Brunswick
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, Canada. It held town status prior to 2023.
History
Saint-Léonard was once a popular town during
Prohibition in the United States as it was easy to smuggle alcohol to
Van Buren.
The town's economy is driven by
potato
The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae.
Wild potato species can be found from the southern Unit ...
farming and a
J.D. Irving Limited sawmill. Saint-Léonard is officially bilingual but it is predominantly a
Francophone community.
On June 30, 2008, a truck carrying 12 million bees overturned near Saint-Léonard. This accident was the first of its kind in New Brunswick.
On 1 January 2023, Saint-Léonard amalgamated with the village of
Sainte-Anne-de-Madawaska and parts of four
local service districts to form the new town of
Vallée-des-Rivières.
The community's name remains in official use.
Geography
It is located on the east bank of the
Saint John River opposite
Van Buren, Maine
Van Buren is a town on the Saint John River in Aroostook County, Maine, United States; located across from Saint-Leonard, New Brunswick, Canada. The population was 2,038 at the 2020 census. It is named after U.S. President Martin Van Buren.
G ...
, to which it is connected via the
Saint Leonard–Van Buren Bridge.
Climate
The town has a warm-summer
humid continental climate
A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freezing ...
(
Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bernd Köppen (born 1951), German pianist and composer
* Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan
* Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author and ...
: ''Dfb''), even for this type of climate the warm season can be milder for a non-coastal city like
Saint John, because the
Great Lakes
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and
Appalachians
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hold much of the heat. that come from the
Gulf of Mexico
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and the interior of the
United States
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. But winters are substantially cold with spring and fall with pleasant temperatures.
File:Saint-Léonard, New Brunswick (1918).jpg, Saint-Léonard, 1918
File:Saint-Léonard,NB.jpg, Saint-Leonard railroad station
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, Saint-Léonard 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.
[
Mother tongue language (2006)]
Education
It has a single school, École Grande-Rivière.
Notable people
See also
* List of communities in New Brunswick
References
External links
Town of Saint-Leonard
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Communities in Madawaska County, New Brunswick
Former towns in New Brunswick
New Brunswick populated places on the Saint John River (Bay of Fundy)