Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage () is a parish municipality in the

Lotbinière Regional County Municipality Lotbinière () is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec. It is an almost exclusively rural RCM, with no village with a population above 4,000. As of the 2016 Canadian census, the RCM had a population of 31,7 ...

in the

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region of

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. Its population is 1,152 as of the

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. It was named after the Narcisse Dionne, an early benefactor of the parish. Beaurivage is associated to the ''

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'' of Beaurivage, also known as Saint-Gilles. The parish municipality, constituted in 1874, covers an area of 62km2, with a population density of 19.

History

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, notorious French criminal

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and his Quebec accomplice

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robbed the Caisse populaire of Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage. Ten minutes earlier, they had robbed the ''caisse'' of Saint-Bernard, for a total of $26,000 that day.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage 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.

References

Commission de toponymie du QuébecMinistère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire

{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint-Narcisse-De-Beaurivage, Quebec Parish municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Chaudière-Appalaches Lotbinière Regional County Municipality