Saint-Apollinaire () is a 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 ...

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. It is part of the

Chaudière-Appalaches Chaudière-Appalaches (, ) is an administrative region in Quebec, Canada. It comprises most of what is historically known as the " Beauce" (; compare with the electoral district of Beauce). It is named for the Chaudière River and the Appalachia ...

region and had a population is 7,968 as of 2021. It is named after Saint Apollinaris ().

History

In 1738, Angélique le Gardeur, the daughter of the seigneur of Tilly, became a widow and was granted a seigneury, which she called Seigniory of Gaspé, after her late husband. It was located south of the Seigneury of Tilly and included what is now Saint-Apollinaire. In 1806, a road crossing the territory of the Seigneury of Gaspé was opened between Saint-Nicolas (now in

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) and Saint-Gilles and allowed the development of the Lotbinière County. The municipality was canonically imposed on November 23, 1853. On July 1, 1855, the parish municipality of Saint-Apollinaire was officially founded. The territory then grew rapidly. Then followed the construction of the first school, the arrival of the railway, and the installation of the first telegraph line. The telephone arrived in 1905. Saint-Apollinaire lost parts of its territory on two separate occasions: in 1867, during the creation of Saint-Agapit-de-Beaurivage (founded from a section of Saint-Gilles also), and in 1919, during the creation of Francoeur. In the 1960s, the Trans-Canada Highway, which runs from Western to Eastern Canada, was built and passed through the municipality. The busy road caused several businesses to be built near it in Saint-Apollinaire. These business gave a greater appeal for settling in Saint-Apollinaire. The current Municipality of Saint-Apollinaire was finally formed on April 6, 1974, when the village of Francoeur and the parish municipality of Saint-Apollinaire merged to form the new municipality of Saint-Apollinaire. In 2017, a project for a Muslim cemetery was rejected by the citizens. Th project received media attention, and its refusal created a negative image of the municipality. Also, the Martin Carpentier Affair happened in Saint-Apollinaire.

Geography

Saint-Apollinaire is located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. The municipality covers an area of 97 km2. The territory of the municipality is crossed by Autoroute 20 from east to west and by Route 273 from north to south. The municipality is surrounded by six municipalities. It is located at the limits of the Lotbinière RCM, bordering

to the east. The other municipalities around Saint-Apollinaire are also part of the Lotbinière RCM: to the north, there is Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly; to the west, there is Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur-d'Issoudun; to the southwest, there is

Saint-Flavien Saint-Flavien () is a municipality in the Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and had a population is 1,619 as of 2021. The municipality, constituted in 1999, covers an are ...

; to the south, there is Saint-Agapit and, to the southeast, there is Saint-Gilles. The municipality is located about 20 km from the bridges of

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. The municipality is located 10 minutes by car from

and

via Autoroute 20. Another nearby town is Sainte-Marie, located 40 minutes away by car.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Saint-Apollinaire 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

External links

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Commission de toponymie du Québec: Saint-Apollinaire

Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire
{{authority control Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Chaudière-Appalaches Lotbinière Regional County Municipality