Saint-Benoît-Labre

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{{Expand French|Saint-Benoît-Labre|date=December 2018|topic=geo}}

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|settlement_type = Municipality

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|map_caption = Location within Beauce-Sartigan RCM.

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|subdivision_name2 = Chaudière-Appalaches

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|subdivision_name3 = Beauce-Sartigan

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|established_title1 = Constituted

|established_date1 = January 4, 1894

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|leader_title = Mayor

|leader_name = Marco Marois

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|leader_name1 = Beauce

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|leader_name2 = Beauce-Sud

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|area_total_km2 = 86.90

|area_land_km2 = 84.99

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|population_total = 1612

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|population_blank2 = 735

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|timezone = EST

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|postal_code_type = Postal code(s)

|postal_code = G0M 1P0

|area_code = 418 and 581

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|website = {{URL|www.saintbenoitlabre.qc.ca|www.saint
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Saint-Benoît-Labre ({{IPA|fr|sɛ̃ bənwa labʁ}}) is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Beauce-Sartigan in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 1,630 as of 2009. It is named after Benedict Joseph Labre.

In 2001 a group of Cistercian nuns moved from Saint-Romuald, Quebec to a newly constructed Bon Conseil Abbey ({{langx|fr|Notre-Dame du Bon Conseil}}) in Saint-Benoît-Labre, where they make chocolate. {{Cite web |url= http://www.ipir.ulaval.ca/fiche.php?id=786 |title= Les Cisterciennes de l'abbaye Notre-Dame du Bon Conseil |work= Le patrimoine immatériel religieux du Québec |publisher= University of Laval |lang= fr |date= 22 February 2011 |author= Sœur Louise Picard }}

The territory of Saint-Benoît-Labre surrounds the village of Lac-Poulin.

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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-Victor

| North = Saint-Alfred

| Northeast = Beauceville

| West = Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce

| Centre = Saint-Benoît-Labre (surrounds Lac-Poulin)

| East = Saint-Georges

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| South = Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley

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Category:Municipalities in Quebec

Category:Incorporated places in Chaudière-Appalaches

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