Saint-Benjamin, Quebec
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|settlement_type = Municipality
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|image_map = Saint-Benjamin Quebec location diagram.png
|map_caption = Location within Les Etchemins RCM.
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|subdivision_type1 = Province
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|subdivision_name2 = Chaudière-Appalaches
|subdivision_type3 = RCM
|subdivision_name3 = Les Etchemins
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|established_title1 = Constituted
|established_date1 = January 9, 1897
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|leader_title = Mayor
|leader_name = Benjamin Arseneau
|leader_title1 = Federal riding
|leader_name1 = Beauce
|leader_title2 = Prov. riding
|leader_name2 = Beauce-Sud
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|area_total_km2 = 112.50
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|population_total = 1090
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|population_density_km2 = 9.8
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|population_blank1 = {{increase}} 10.4%
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|population_blank2 = 493
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|timezone = EST
|utc_offset = −5
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|postal_code = G0M 1N0
|area_code = 418 and 581
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|website = {{URL|www.st-benjamin.qc.ca}}
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Saint-Benjamin ({{IPA|fr|sɛ̃ bɛ̃ʒamɛ̃}}) is a municipality in Les Etchemins Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 1,090 as of the Canada 2021 Census. It is named in tribute to Reverend Benjamin Demers, promoter of the new parish in 1895.
The Caron twins grew up in Saint-Benjamin.
History
Originally, the territory were Saint-Benjamin is located was known as Saint-François-de-la-Beauce. The boundaries were roughly similar of those of the current city of Beauceville. In 1855, From those boundaries emerged the Parish of Saint-François from witch Saint-Benjamin spitted away in 1897.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Benjamin had a population of {{val|1090|fmt=commas}} living in {{val|461|fmt=commas}} of its {{val|493|fmt=commas}} total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:1090-987}}|987|1}} from its 2016 population of {{val|987|fmt=commas}}. With a land area of {{convert|111.53|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|1090|111.53|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.{{cite web | url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810000202&geocode=A000224 | title=Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Quebec | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=February 9, 2022 | accessdate=April 6, 2023 | archive-date=February 13, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213130057/https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810000202&geocode=A000224 | url-status=live }}
References
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090415073751/http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/CT/topos/topos.html Commission de toponymie du Québec]
- [http://www.mamrot.gouv.qc.ca/ Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire]
{{Adjacent communities
| Northwest = Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne
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| Northeast = Lac-Etchemin
| West = Beauceville
| Centre = Saint-Benjamin
| East = Sainte-Rose-de-Watford
| Southwest = Saint-Simon-les-Mines
| South = Saint-Georges
| Southeast = Saint-Prosper
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{{Les Etchemins RCM}}
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