L'Anse-Saint-Jean, French for "The Cove of Saint John" is a municipality in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. Its population was 1208 in the Canada 2011 Census.
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![]() ![]() L'Anse-Saint-Jean Location in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean Quebec. | |
Coordinates: 48°14′N 70°12′W[1] | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean |
RCM | Le Fjord-du-Saguenay |
Settled | 1839 |
Constituted | January 1, 1859 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Lucien Martel |
• Federal riding | Chicoutimi—Le Fjord |
• Prov. riding | Dubuc |
Area | |
• Total | 530.20 km2 (204.71 sq mi) |
• Land | 512.57 km2 (197.90 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[3] | |
• Total | 1,208 |
• Density | 2.4/km2 (6/sq mi) |
• Pop (2006–11) | ![]() |
• Dwellings | 965 |
Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
Postal code(s) | G0V 1J0 |
Area codes | 418 and 581 |
Climate | Dfb |
Website | www |
L'Anse-Saint-Jean was founded in 1838 by the Société des Vingt-et-un, a group of lumber prospectors and investors from Charlevoix which was responsible for opening up the Saguenay region to colonization.
It achieved a certain notoriety when its citizens held a referendum on January 21, 1997, to turn the village into the Le Royaume de L'Anse-Saint-Jean (The Kingdom of L'Anse Saint Jean), the continent's first "municipal monarchy."[4] The monarchists won 73.9% of the vote, with Denys Tremblay becoming King Denys I. The king was crowned on June 24, Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day, in the Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, and announced plans to build a "vegetable oratory," Saint-Jean-du-Millénaire (Saint John of the Millennium).[5] This micronational project was cheerfully conceded to be a way of boosting tourism in the region, which had been hit by the 1996 Saguenay Flood.
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