Saint-Ubalde | |
Flag Size: | 120x100px |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Central Quebec |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in central Quebec |
Coordinates: | 46.75°N -88°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Date: | 1860 |
Established Title1: | Constituted |
Established Date1: | March 3, 1973 |
Government Footnotes: | [1] |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Pierre Saint-Germain |
Area Footnotes: | [2] |
Area Total Km2: | 146.40 |
Area Land Km2: | 140.21 |
Population Total: | 1403 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Density Km2: | 10.0 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2006-2011 |
Population Blank1: | 3.8% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 1015 |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Saint-Ubalde is a rural municipality in Portneuf County in the Canadian province of Quebec.
Geographically its territory is marked by an agricultural and populated area in the south-west, and an undeveloped hilly area in the north-east.
Numerous watercourses and lakes (Blanc, Sainte-Anne, Ricard, Thom) crisscross and dot is entire territory.
The inhabited section is located in the southeast.Saint-Ubalde is centred on potato cultivation and outdoor recreation (canoeing, water skiing, fishing)..[3]
Saint-Ubald (originally without an "e") was founded by people from Neuville in 1860, and the Saint-Ubald Mission was established that same year. It was named after Ubald Gingras (1824-1874), first sacristan of the place but originally from Pointe-aux-Trembles (Portneuf), and who was brother-in-law of Charles-François Baillargeon, archbishop of Quebec. The mission became a parish in 1866 by separating from Saint-Casimir. In 1873, the civil parish was formed and incorporated as a parish municipality. A year later, its post office opened.[4]
In 1920, the village centre separated from the parish municipality to form the Village Municipality of Saint-Ubalde. But in 1973, the parish and village municipalities merged again to form the new Municipality of Saint-Ubalde.[4]
Population trend:[5]
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 646 (total dwellings: 1015)
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