Official Name: | Saint-Léolin |
Pushpin Map: | New Brunswick |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Saint-Léolin, New Brunswick |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | New Brunswick |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Gloucester County |
Subdivision Type3: | Parish |
Subdivision Name3: | New Bandon Parish |
Subdivision Type4: | Town |
Subdivision Name4: | Rivière-du-Nord |
Area Land Km2: | 19.73 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 615 |
Population Density Km2: | 31.2 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2016–21 |
Population Blank1: | 4.9% |
Timezone: | Atlantic |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Timezone Dst: | Atlantic |
Utc Offset Dst: | -3 |
Coordinates: | 47.7675°N -65.1504°W |
Website: | http://www.villagesaintleolin.ca |
Area Code: | Area code 506 |
Saint-Léolin is a former village on the Acadian Peninsula in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada. It held village status prior to 2023 and is now part of the town of Rivière-du-Nord.
See also: History of New Brunswick and List of historic places in Gloucester County, New Brunswick.
The first settler in the village was Joseph Bertin in the early 19th century. The village was originally named Saint-Joseph, but changed in 1904 to avoid confusion with another Saint-Joseph near Memramcook.
The village was incorporated in 1978.
On 1 January 2023, Saint-Léolin amalgamated with the three other villages and all or part of four local service districts to form the new of Rivière-du-Nord.[2] [3] The community's name remains in official use.[4]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Léolin had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 19.73km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[1]
See main article: List of people from Gloucester County, New Brunswick.