Saint-Ubalde Explained

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]

History

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]

Demographics

Population trend:[5]

Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 646 (total dwellings: 1015)

Mother tongue:

See also

Notes and References

  1. Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire - Répertoire des municipalités: Saint-Ubalde
  2. Statistics Canada 2011 Census - Saint-Ubalde census profile
  3. Web site: Stéfanos . Hydrological and multi-resource portrait of the Sainte-Anne River watershed . CAPSA . 2023-11-01 . 27/137 . fr . 2012-07-30.
  4. Web site: Saint-Ubalde (municipalité) . 2010-03-29 . Commission de toponymie du Québec . French.
  5. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census