Saint-Bernard () is a municipality in
La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality
La Nouvelle-Beauce (, ''New Beauce'') is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region in southeastern Quebec, Canada, south of the Saint Lawrence River. It is located south of Lévis, Quebec, Lévis, along the Chaudière Ri ...
, in
Quebec
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,
Canada
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. It is part of the
Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 2,535 as of 2021. Constituted in 1845, it is named after Archbishop
Bernard-Claude Panet.
The municipality is located on scenic
Route 171 in
Beauce.
On August 26, 1972, five days after escaping from Saint-Vincent-de-Paul jail in
Laval, Quebec, notorious French criminal
Jacques Mesrine and his Quebec accomplice
Jean-Paul Mercier robbed the
Caisse populaire of Saint-Bernard. Ten minutes later, they robbed the ''caisse'' of
Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage, for a total of $26,000 that day.
All of the victims of the
1997 Les Éboulements bus accident save one, the bus driver, were senior citizens from Saint-Bernard.
Demographics
Population
''Population trend:''
[Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, ]2011
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, 2016, 2021 census
Language
''Mother tongue language (2021)''
[2021 Statistics Canada Community Profile: Saint-Bernard, Quebec](_blank)
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References
Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire
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Municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Chaudière-Appalaches
Designated places in Quebec