Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage is a parish municipality in the Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population is 1,091 as of the Canada 2011 Census. It was named after the Narcisse Dionne, an early benefactor of the parish. Beaurivage is associated to the seigneurie of Beaurivage, also known as Saint-Gilles.

Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage
Parish municipality
View of the village.
Location within Lotbinière RCM.
Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage Location in southern Quebec.
Coordinates: 46°29′N 71°14′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
RCM	Lotbinière
Constituted	May 1, 1874
Government [2]
• Mayor	Denis Dion
• Federal riding	Lotbinière— Chutes-de-la-Chaudière
• Prov. riding	Lotbinière-Frontenac
Area [2][3]
• Total	60.80 km2 (23.48 sq mi)
• Land	61.91 km2 (23.90 sq mi)
	There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources
Population  (2011)[3]
• Total	1,091
• Density	17.6/km2 (46/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	11.9%
• Dwellings	429
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0S 1W0
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Highways	No major routes
Website	www.saintnarcisse debeaurivage.ca

History

On August 26, 1972, five days after escaping from Saint-Vincent-de-Paul jail in Laval, Quebec, notorious French criminal Jacques Mesrine and his Quebec accomplice Jean-Paul Mercier robbed the Caisse populaire of Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage. Ten minutes earlier, they had robbed the caisse of Saint-Bernard, for a total of $26,000 that day.[4]

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage had a population of 1,152 living in 446 of its 466 total private dwellings, a change of 4.2% from its 2016 population of 1,106. With a land area of 62.07 km² (23.97 sq mi), it had a population density of 18.6/km² (48.1/sq mi) in 2021.[5]

References

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