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Saint-Georges () is a city in the province of
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, Canada. It is the seat of Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality, part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region. The population was 32,935 as of the
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. Route 173 runs through Saint-Georges Est (where it is known as Boulevard Lacroix) and heads south to the border with
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, United States. The name of the
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and of the city, Saint-Georges, is in homage to George Pozer, the fourth ''seigneur'' of Aubert-Gallion. The Beauce-Etchemin School Board (''Commission scolaire de la Beauce-Etchemin'') has its headquarters on 118th Street. Saint-Georges is home to the Cégep Beauce-Appalaches. In 2002, it amalgamated with Saint-Georges-Est (pop. 4,110), Aubert-Gallion (pop. 2,444) and Saint-Jean-de-la-Lande (pop. 786). It is home to one of the few inflatable dams, introduced to raise the water level of the Chaudière River for water-based activities and to make the riverside more attractive. Pedestrian bridges were also built over the river as part of the same project.


History

The history of Saint-Georges goes back to the late seventeenth century, at which point the region was inhabited principally by the Algonquin people, also known as the
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. The first European presence recorded is that of a
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missionary called Father Gabriel Druillettes who made three visits in 1646, 1650, and finally in 1651, but there was no colonial settlement established at this time. By the middle of the next century, however, two colonial ''seigneuries'' had been established on the present site of Saint-Georges: these were Aubin-de-l'Isle and Aubert-Gallion. Records indicate that in 1760, one of them, Aubert-Gallion, passed into the hands of Marie-Anne Josephte de l'Estrigant de St-Martin and of her daughter Charlotte-Marie-Anne-Joseph Aubert de la Chesnaye. The two heiresses sold their inheritance in 1768 to William Grant, a Scotsman with ambitions to become a major Canadian landowner. Grant died in 1805 or 1807 (sources differ), and the estate was sold again, this time to the German (at least by birthplace) Johann Georg Pfotzer. The canonical parish of Saint-Georges was created in 1835, and the secular parish/municipality in 1856.


Geography

Saint-Georges is located 85 km south of
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, 125 km northeast of
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and 40 km north of the state of
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. The other towns of some importance in the vicinity, Lévis and Thetford Mines, are located respectively 80 km to the north and 50 km to the west of Saint-Georges. Saint-Georges shares its borders with Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley to the southwest, with Saint-Benoît-Labre to the west. Notre-Dame-des-Pins, Saint-Simon-les-Mines and Saint-Benjamin are the neighboring municipalities to the north. The border is shared with Saint-Prosper, Saint-Philibert, Saint-Côme–Linière while the southeast is shared with Saint-Martin and Saint-René. Downtown Saint-Georges extends on both banks of the Chaudière River in the center of the territory; another urban core, the neighborhood of Saint-Jean-de-la-Lande is located southwest of downtown. Saint-Georges is located north of the Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality in the administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches. The three catholic parishes, L'Assomption-de-la-Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie, Saint-Georges and Saint-Jean-de-la-Lande, are part of the
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. The city is part of the Beauce tourist sub-region, which is located in the Chaudière-Appalaches tourist region.


Economy

Although a relatively small city, Saint-Georges is often considered the ''Metropolis'' of Beauce Region because it's the largest city in the region. Saint-Georges is an important manufacturing centre, including textiles, steel forgings, garage doors, bicycles and truck trailers. The town is home to the headquarters of the Canam Group, a construction company, and Manac (trailers), the biggest semi-trailer manufacturer in Canada. Both these companies are under operation of the Dutil family. The city has a wide array of local and national retailers and restaurants, as well as many services including financial institutions, schools of different levels, medical clinics, a hospital and several others that are not found elsewhere in the region. Carrefour Saint-Georges is the largest shopping mall in town and in the region. Saint-Georges is the headquarters of the
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bus company Autocars La Chaudière, which provides bus services in the Beauce Region to
Quebec City Quebec City is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Census Metropolitan Area (including surrounding communities) had a populati ...
. The city also has a regional airport. The extension of Autoroute 73 from Beauceville, Quebec, approximately to the north, to Saint-Georges was discussed for almost thirty years before finally being completed in 2016.


Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by
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, Saint-Georges 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. Population trend: * Population in 2021: 32,935 (2016 to 2021 population change: 1.3%) * Population in 2016: 32,513 * Population in 2011: 31,173 * Population in 2006: 29,616 * Population in 2001: 28,127 * Population in 1996: 20,057 * Population in 1991: 19,583 Mother Tongue: * English: 0.9% * French: 96.7% * English and French: 0.4% * Other only: 1.7% In the
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, Saint-Georges was 96%
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, 1.4% Aboriginal, and 2.6% visible minority.


City council

City council (as of 2022): * Mayor: Claude Morin * Councillors: Serge Thomassin, Tom Redmond, Jean Perron, Esther Fortin, Manon Bougie, Jean-Pierre Fortier, Olivier Duval, Renaud Fortier


Twin towns

* Lisieux, France since 1996


Notable people

* Maxime Bernier * Amélie Veille * Joshua Roy * Jesse Bélanger


See also

*
Beauce, Quebec Beauce (; ) is a historical and traditional region of Quebec, Canada, located south of Quebec City. Most of it is part of the administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches. It corresponds approximately to the regional county municipalities of ...


References


External links


Official site

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