Sainte-Marguerite | |
Settlement Type: | Parish municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec. |
Coordinates: | 46.5167°N -126°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Chaudière-Appalaches |
Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
Subdivision Name3: | La Nouvelle-Beauce |
Established Title1: | Constituted |
Established Date1: | July 1, 1855 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Claude Perreault |
Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
Leader Name1: | Beauce |
Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
Leader Name2: | Beauce-Nord |
Area Total Km2: | 83.10 |
Area Land Km2: | 83.30 |
Area Note: | There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources |
Population Total: | 1107 |
Population As Of: | 2019 |
Population Density Km2: | 12.9 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2006-2011 |
Population Blank1: | 1.2% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 495 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Postal Code: | G0S 2X0 |
Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
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Sainte-Marguerite is a parish municipality in La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population is 1,107 as of the Canada 2011 Census. It is named after Marguerite Marcoux, who gave part of the land she owned in 1830 for the construction of a church.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sainte-Marguerite had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 83.05km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[1]