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Beauceville is a city in, and the seat of, the Municipalité régionale de comté Beauce-Centre in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population was 6,185 as of the Canada 2021 Census.

Beauceville
City
Chaudière River in Beauceville
Coat of arms
Location within Beauce-Centre RCM.
Beauceville Location in southern Quebec.
Coordinates: 46°12′N 70°47′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
RCM	Beauce-Centre
Constituted	February 25, 1998
Government [2]
• Mayor	Luc Provençal
• Federal riding	Beauce
• Prov. riding	Beauce-Nord
Area [2][3]
• Total	166.20 km2 (64.17 sq mi)
• Land	164.59 km2 (63.55 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[3]
• Total	6,185
• Density	37.6/km2 (97/sq mi)
• Pop 2016-2021	1.7%
• Dwellings	2,875
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G5X
Area codes	418 and 581
Highways A-73	Route 108 Route 173
Website	www.ville. beauceville.qc.ca

Beauceville's new constitution dates from 1998, when it amalgamated with Saint-François-Ouest and Saint-François-de-Beauce. The previous city was also the creation of a merging between Beauceville and Beauceville-Est, distinction made because each shared a bank of the Chaudière River. Beauceville was the first municipality in Beauce to be constituted as a city when it detached from Saint-François-de-Beauce in 1904.

Geography

Covering an area of 164.56 km2, Beauceville extends on both banks of the Chaudière River, 85 km south of Quebec City, 55 km from the border of the US state of Maine and 150 km from Sherbrooke.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Beauceville had a population of 6,185 living in 2,723 of its 2,875 total private dwellings, a change of -1.7% from its 2016 population of 6,291. With a land area of 164.59 km² (63.55 sq mi), it had a population density of 37.6/km² (97.3/sq mi) in 2021.[4]

Transportation

Autoroute 73 crosses Beauceville's territory at exit 61.

Notable people

• William Chapman, poet born in Saint-François-de-Beauce
• Nicole Jolicoeur, artist
• Jeanne St. Laurent, wife to former Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent
• Stéphane Veilleux, National Hockey League player
• Marie-Philip Poulin, hockey player, Olympic Gold Medalist (2010, 2014, 2022)

References

• Commission de toponymie du Québec
• Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire

External links

• Ville de Beauceville (in French)

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