Saint-Jean-de-Brébeuf () is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté des Appalaches in

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. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 397 as of 2009. First named Lower Ireland due to its location in the township of Ireland and in opposition to Upper Ireland, now the hamlet of Maple Grove in Irlande, Saint-Jean-de-Brébeuf was first colonized by English, Irish and Scottish settlers. The current name was given to the municipality at its constitution in 1946. It honours

Jean de Brébeuf Jean de Brébeuf () (25 March 1593 16 March 1649) was a French Jesuit missionary who travelled to New France (Canada) in 1625. There he worked primarily with the Huron for the rest of his life, except for a few years in France from 1629 to 1 ...

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martyred in Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, near Midland, Ontario, in 1649. The former parish church was converted in 2014 to house Le Théâtre Bleu performance venue.

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