Lotbinière | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Chaudière-Appalaches |
Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
Subdivision Name3: | Lotbinière |
Established Title1: | Constituted |
Established Date1: | January 1, 1979 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Maurice Sénécal |
Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
Leader Name1: | Lotbinière— Chutes-de-la-Chaudière |
Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
Leader Name2: | Lotbinière-Frontenac |
Area Total Km2: | 100.00 |
Area Land Km2: | 80.02 |
Population Total: | 887 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Density Km2: | 11.1 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2006–2011 |
Population Blank1: | 4.7% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 581 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Postal Code: | G0S 1S0 |
Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Lotbinière is a municipality in Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population was 887 as of the Canada 2011 Census. It is named after the seigneurie of which it was part. Bordered in the northwest by the Saint Lawrence River, Lotbinière is part of the Most Beautiful Villages of Quebec network.
It was constituted in 1979 from the amalgamation of the parish of Saint-Louis-de-Lotbinière and the village of Lotbinière. The area was initially settled by French colonizers at the end of the 17th century. It is named after René-Louis Chartier de Lotbinière, who was granted the seigneury of Lotbinière in 1672.