Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière () is a parish municipality in the

Lotbinière Regional County Municipality Lotbinière () is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec. It is an almost exclusively rural RCM, with no village with a population above 4,000. As of the 2016 Canadian census, the RCM had a population of 31,7 ...

in the

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region of

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. Its population is 1,240 as of the

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. It is named after Édouard Faucher, founder and first priest of the parish, and

René-Louis Chartier de Lotbinière René-Louis Chartier de Lotbinière (; 1641–1709) was a French-Canadian Poet, 1st Seigneur de Lotbinière in New France (1672), Judge of the Provost and Admiralty Courts and Chief Councillor of the Sovereign Council of New France. Birth Baptis ...

, first owner of the ''

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'' in which Saint-Édouard lay.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière 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.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint-Edouard-De-Lotbiniere Parish municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Chaudière-Appalaches Lotbinière Regional County Municipality