Val-Alain

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

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|name = Val-Alain

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|settlement_type = Municipality

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|image_caption = Covered Bridge of Val-Alain

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|image_map = Val-Alain Quebec location diagram.png

|map_caption = Location within Lotbinière RCM.

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|pushpin_map_caption = Location in southern Quebec.

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|subdivision_type = Country

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|subdivision_type1 = Province

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|subdivision_type2 = Region

|subdivision_name2 = Chaudière-Appalaches

|subdivision_type3 = RCM

|subdivision_name3 = Lotbinière

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|established_title1 = Constituted

|established_date1 = January 1, 1950

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|leader_title = Mayor

|leader_name = Daniel Turcotte

|leader_title1 = Federal riding

|leader_name1 = Lotbinière—
Chutes-de-la-Chaudière

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|leader_name2 = Lotbinière-Frontenac

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|area_total_km2 = 102.90

|area_land_km2 = 102.54

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|population_total = 986

|population_as_of = 2021

|population_density_km2 = 9.6

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|population_blank1_title= Pop 2016-2021

|population_blank1 = {{increase}} 6.7%

|population_blank2_title= Dwellings

|population_blank2 = 468

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|timezone = EST

|utc_offset = −5

|timezone_DST = EDT

|utc_offset_DST = −4

|postal_code_type = Postal code(s)

|postal_code = G0S 3H0

|area_code = 418 and 581

|blank_name = Highways

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|website = {{URL|www.val-alain.com}}

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Val-Alain ({{IPA|fr|val alɛ̃}}) is a municipality in Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 986 as of 2021. It is named after Alain Chartier Joly de Lotbinière, the grandson of Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, a former premier of Quebec. "Monsieur Alain," as he was known, headed the Lotbinière seigneurie from 1911 to 1954.

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{{cite web | url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?LANG=E&GENDERlist=1&STATISTIClist=1,4&DGUIDlist=2021A00052433070&HEADERlist=0&SearchText=Val-Alain | title=Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Val-Alain, Municipalité (MÉ) [Census subdivision], Quebec | date=9 February 2022 }}

{{mamrot |type=municipalite |33070}}

{{toponymie |64756}}

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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]