| Official Name: | Saint-Léonard |
| Other Name: | St. Leonard |
| Flag Size: | 120x80px |
| Pushpin Map: | New Brunswick |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Saint-Léonard in New Brunswick |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | New Brunswick |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Type3: | Parish |
| Subdivision Name3: | Saint-Léonard |
| Subdivision Type4: | Town |
| Subdivision Name4: | Vallée-des-Rivières |
| Seat Type: | Electoral Districts Federal |
| Seat: | Madawaska—Restigouche |
| Parts Type: | Provincial |
| Established Title: | Settled |
| Established Date: | 1789 |
| Established Title2: | Town Status |
| Established Date2: | 1920 |
| Area Land Km2: | 5.34 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 1,322 |
| Population Density Km2: | 247.8 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2016–21 |
| Population Blank1: | 1.7% |
| Timezone: | AST |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Timezone Dst: | ADT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -3 |
| Coordinates: | 47.1625°N -67.925°W |
| Elevation M: | 150 to 171 |
| Elevation Ft: | 492 to 561 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | E7E |
| Blank Name: | Dwellings |
| Blank Info: | 603 |
| Blank1 Name: | Median Income* |
| Blank1 Info: | $48,512CDN |
| Blank2 Name: | NTS Map |
| Blank2 Info: | 021O04 |
| Blank3 Name: | GNBC Code |
| Blank3 Info: | DAADY |
| Website: | www.saint-leonard.ca |
| Footnotes: |
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Saint-Léonard is a former town in Madawaska County, New Brunswick, Canada.[2] It held town status prior to 2023 and is now part of the town of Vallée-des-Rivières.
See also: History of New Brunswick and List of historic places in Madawaska County, New Brunswick. Saint-Léonard was once a popular town during Prohibition in the United States as it was easy to smuggle alcohol to Van Buren.
The town's economy is driven by potato farming and a J.D. Irving Limited sawmill. Saint-Léonard is officially bilingual but it is predominantly a Francophone community.
On June 30, 2008, a truck carrying 12 million bees overturned near Saint-Léonard. This accident was the first of its kind in New Brunswick.[3]
On 1 January 2023, Saint-Léonard amalgamated with the village of Sainte-Anne-de-Madawaska and parts of four local service districts to form the new town of Vallée-des-Rivières.[4] [5] The community's name remains in official use.[6]
It is located on the east bank of the Saint John River opposite Van Buren, Maine, to which it is connected via the Saint Leonard–Van Buren Bridge.
The town has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen: Dfb), even for this type of climate the warm season can be milder for a non-coastal city like Saint John, because the Great Lakes and Appalachians hold much of the heat. that come from the Gulf of Mexico and the interior of the United States. But winters are substantially cold with spring and fall with pleasant temperatures.[7]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Léonard had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 5.34km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[1]
Mother tongue language (2006)
| Language | Population | Pct (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| French only | 1,165 | 89.62% | |
| English only | 70 | 5.38% | |
| Other languages | 55 | 4.23% | |
| Both English and French | 10 | 0.77% |
It has a single school, École Grande-Rivière.
See main article: List of people from Madawaska County, New Brunswick.