Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière | |
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Coordinates: 46°34′N 71°50′W / 46.567°N 71.833°W [1] | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Chaudière-Appalaches |
RCM | Lotbinière |
Constituted | December 1, 1862 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Alain Soucy |
• Federal riding |
Lotbinière— Chutes-de-la-Chaudière |
• Prov. riding | Lotbinière-Frontenac |
Area | |
• Total | 98.50 km2 (38.03 sq mi) |
• Land | 98.54 km2 (38.05 sq mi) |
There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources | |
Population | |
• Total | 1,248 |
• Density | 12.7/km2 (33/sq mi) |
• Pop 2006-2011 | 1.0% |
• Dwellings | 531 |
Time zone | UTC−5 ( EST) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC−4 ( EDT) |
Postal code(s) | |
Area code(s) | 418 and 581 |
Highways | R-226 |
Website |
www.municipalite. st-edouard.qc.ca |
Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière is a parish municipality in the Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population is 1,248 as of the Canada 2011 Census. It is named after Édouard Faucher, founder and first priest of the parish, and René-Louis Chartier de Lotbinière, first owner of the seigneurie in which Saint-Édouard lay.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière had a population of 1,240 living in 520 of its 557 total private dwellings, a change of 3.9% from its 2016 population of 1,194. With a land area of 98.43 km2 (38.00 sq mi), it had a population density of 12.6/km2 (32.6/sq mi) in 2021. [4]