Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage | |
Settlement Type: | Parish municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec. |
Coordinates: | 46.4833°N -85°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Chaudière-Appalaches |
Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
Subdivision Name3: | Lotbinière |
Established Title1: | Constituted |
Established Date1: | May 1, 1874 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Denis Dion |
Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
Leader Name1: | Lotbinière— Chutes-de-la-Chaudière |
Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
Leader Name2: | Lotbinière-Frontenac |
Area Total Km2: | 60.95 |
Area Land Km2: | 62.07 |
Area Note: | There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources |
Population Total: | 1152 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Density Km2: | 18.6 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
Population Blank1: | 4.2% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 466 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Postal Code: | G0S 1W0 |
Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: | No major routes |
Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage (pronounced as /fr/) is a parish municipality in the Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population is 1,152 as of the Canada 2021 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.
The parish municipality, constituted in 1874, covers an area of 62km2, with a population density of 19.
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.[1]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 62.07km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]