Beauceville () is a city in, and the seat of, the Municipalité régionale de comté Beauce-Centre in

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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 the population was 6,185 as of the

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. Beauceville's new constitution dates from 1998, when it amalgamated with Saint-François-Ouest and Saint-François-de-Beauce. The previous city was also the creation of a merging between Beauceville and Beauceville-Est, distinction made because each shared a bank of the

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. Beauceville was the first municipality in

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to be constituted as a city when it detached from Saint-François-de-Beauce in 1904.

History

Before its creation, the territory where Beauceville currently sits was known as Saint-François-de-la-Beauce. The actual city of Beauceville was formed in 1904, when it split from the municipality of Saint-François. In 1930 it lost some of its territory, when the city of Beauceville-Est was created, but regained it in 1973 when Beauceville-Est merged with Beauceville. In 1998 Beauceville gained significant territories, when it annexed the neighbouring municipalities of Saint-François-de-Beauce (the municipality from which Beauceville had originally split) and Saint-François-Ouest. Throughout its history, Beauceville has suffered from spring floods of the

, and many streets of the municipality have been repeatedly inundated, causing great damage. In recent years, Beauceville has seen economic prosperity. The municipality has more than 25 manufacturing companies and its industrial park is expanding and welcoming many new companies.

Geography

Covering an area of 164.56 km2, Beauceville extends on both banks of the

, 85 km south of

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, 55 km from the border of the US state of

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and 150 km from

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Neighborhoods

*Beauceville-Est *Centre-ville *Saint-François-de-Beauce *Saint-François-Ouest

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Beauceville 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.

Infrastructure

Autoroute 73 crosses Beauceville's territory at exit 61.

Notable people

* William Chapman, poet born in Saint-François-de-Beauce *

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) * Jeanne St. Laurent, wife to former Prime Minister

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* Stéphane Veilleux,

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References

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

External links

Ville de Beauceville

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