Saint-Hilarion () is a parish municipality in

Charlevoix Regional County Municipality Charlevoix is a regional county municipality () in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Baie-Saint-Paul. Subdivisions There are seven subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (1) * Baie-Saint-Paul ;Municipalities ...

, in the administrative region of

Capitale-Nationale Capitale-Nationale (; ) is one of the 17 administrative regions of Quebec. It is anchored by the provincial capital, Quebec City, and is largely coextensive with that city's metropolitan area. It has a land area of 18,684.78 km2. It reported ...

of the

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, Canada. It is named after Saint

Hilarion Hilarion (291–371), also known by the bynames of Thavata, of Gaza, and in the Orthodox Church as the Great was a Christian anchorite who spent most of his life in the desert according to the example of Anthony the Great (c. 251–356). While ...

History

In 1822. the geographic township of Settrington was proclaimed, named after a village in Yorkshire, England. Colonization of the area began in 1830 with the arrival of the first settlers from

Les Éboulements Les Éboulements () is a municipality (Quebec), municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. Its population centres include Les Éboulements (located along Quebec Route 362, Route 362 on the plateau overlooking the Saint Lawr ...

. In 1855, the Township Municipality of Settrington was created, followed by the parish of Saint-Hilarion-de-Settrington in 1860. That same year, the Settrington Post Office opened (renamed to Saint-Hilarion Post Office in 1892). In 1956, the Township Municipality of Settrington changed statutes and its name to become the Parish Municipality of Saint-Hilarion.

Geography

The landscape of Saint-Hilarion, with an altitude of , is dotted by several lakes, such as Lac aux Bois-Verts and Lac à la Mine. Rivers flowing through the municipality are: *

Jean-Noël River The Jean-Noël River is a tributary of the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River, in the administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. This river flows through the regional county municipalities (MRC) of: * ...

* Rivière du Premier Rang * Rivière à la Loutre (Gouffre River tributary) *

Rivière de Chicago The Chicago River is a tributary of the east bank of the middle part of the Rivière du Gouffre, flowing in the administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, in the province from Quebec, to Canada. The course of this river flows through the region ...

Geology

The municipality of Saint-Hilarion lies about from the center of the

Charlevoix impact structure The Charlevoix impact structure is a large eroded meteorite impact structure in the Charlevoix region of Quebec, Canada. Only part of the impact structure is exposed at the surface, the rest lying beneath the Saint Lawrence River. Description ...

, discovered in 1968 and which, in 2009, is considered the thirteenth largest impact structure identified on Earth. (The municipality of Les Éboulements being the center). Its soil, as in many municipalities in Charlevoix, is full of

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, rocky material found at the site of a meteoric impact. An

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with a diameter of struck the Charlevoix region about 350 million years ago, creating an impact structure in diameter. The Charlevoix region is known for its regular seismic activity within the Charlevoix Seismic Zone, even if the tremors are not always felt. There is a tremor every two days, very weak

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. Major earthquakes felt in Saint-Hilarion: *1534 (IX on the

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) *

1663 Events January–March * January 10 – The Royal African Company is granted a Royal Charter by Charles II of England. * January 23 – The Treaty of Ghilajharighat is signed in India between representatives of the Mughal ...

(IX on the Mercalli scale) *1791 (VIII on the Mercalli scale) *

1870 Events January * January 1 ** The first edition of ''The Northern Echo'' newspaper is published in Priestgate, Darlington, England. ** Plans for the Brooklyn Bridge are completed. * January 3 – Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge be ...

(IX on the Mercalli scale) *

1925 Events January * January 1 – The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria (1925–1930), State of Syria. * January 3 – Benito Mussolini m ...

(6.2 on the

Richter scale The Richter scale (), also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and pr ...

) *

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(5.9 on the Richter scale)

Demographics

In the

2021 Census of Population The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...

conducted by

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, Saint-Hilarion 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. Mother tongue (2021)

Government

List of former mayors: * Rosaire Lavoie (...–2005, 2009–2013) * Rénald Marier (2005–2009, 2013–2017) * Patrick Lavoie (2017–present)

Notable people

The most famous native of Saint-Hilarion is the journalist Olivar Asselin (1874-1937), who participated in the founding of the newspaper ''

Le Devoir (, ) is a French-language newspaper published in Montreal and distributed in Quebec and throughout Canada. It was founded by journalist and politician Henri Bourassa in 1910. is one of few independent large-circulation newspapers in Quebec ...

'' in 1910.

References

External links

* {{authority control Parish municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Capitale-Nationale Canada geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia