Sainte-Marguerite is a parish municipality in La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population is 1,107 as of the Canada 2011 Census. It is named after Marguerite Marcoux, who gave part of the land she owned in 1830 for the construction of a church.

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Sainte-Marguerite
Parish municipality
Church and municipal building.
Location within La Nouvelle-Beauce RCM.
Sainte-Marguerite Location in southern Quebec.
Coordinates: 46°31′N 70°56′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
RCM	La Nouvelle-Beauce
Constituted	July 1, 1855
Government [2]
• Mayor	Claude Perreault
• Federal riding	Beauce
• Prov. riding	Beauce-Nord
Area [2][3]
• Total	83.10 km2 (32.09 sq mi)
• Land	83.30 km2 (32.16 sq mi)
	There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources
Population  (2019)[3]
• Total	1,107
• Density	12.9/km2 (33/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	1.2%
• Dwellings	495
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0S 2X0
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Highways	Route 216 Route 275

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sainte-Marguerite had a population of 1,175 living in 491 of its 531 total private dwellings, a change of 9% from its 2016 population of 1,078. With a land area of 83.05 km² (32.07 sq mi), it had a population density of 14.1/km² (36.6/sq mi) in 2021.[4]

References

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