Saint-Cyprien | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Eastern Quebec |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in eastern Quebec |
Coordinates: | 47.9°N -70°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
Subdivision Name3: | Rivière-du-Loup |
Established Title1: | Constituted |
Established Date1: | January 1, 1883 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Michel Lagacé |
Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
Leader Name1: | Montmagny—L'Islet— Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup |
Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
Leader Name2: | Rivière-du-Loup-Témiscouata |
Area Total Km2: | 140.00 |
Area Land Km2: | 138.43 |
Population Total: | 1078 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Density Km2: | 7.8 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
Population Blank1: | 1.1% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 502 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Postal Code: | G0L 2P0 |
Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
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Saint-Cyprien (in French pronounced as /sɛ̃ sipʁijɛ̃/) is a municipality in Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada.
It was from 1862 that the first settlers began to develop this territory; Most of them came from parishes on the southern coast of the Saint Lawrence (Trois-Pistoles, Saint-Éloi, L'Isle-Verte). The municipality was officially created in 1883 under the name of Hocquart by splitting away from the municipality of Saint-Éloi. Two years later, a large section of Hocquart was taken away to create the municipality of Saint-Clément.
The municipality lost its church in January 1954 in a fire which originated in the furnace system. Two years later, the new church built by corvée came into operation. Five years later, in 1959, Hocquart changed its name to become the current municipality of Saint-Cyprien.