Saint-Anselme
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Saint-Anselme | |
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 Saint-Anselme Church | |
 Location within Bellechasse RCM. | |
  Saint-Anselme Location in province of Quebec.  Saint-Anselme Saint-Anselme (Canada) | |
| Coordinates: 46°38′N 70°58′W / 46.633°N 70.967°W[1] | |
| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  Quebec |
| Region | Chaudière-Appalaches |
| RCM | Bellechasse |
| Constituted | January 7, 1998 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Yves Turgeon |
| • Federal riding | Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis |
| • Prov. riding | Bellechasse |
| Area | |
• Total | 74.90 km2 (28.92 sq mi) |
| • Land | 74.22 km2 (28.66 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[3] | |
• Total | 4,047 |
| • Density | 54.5/km2 (141/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2016-2021 |  2.8% |
| • Dwellings | 1,772 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area codes | 418 and 581 |
| Highways |  R-277 |
| Website | www |
Saint-Anselme (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿ɑ̃sɛlm]) is a village in the Bellechasse Regional County Municipality, part of the Chaudière-Appalaches administrative region of Quebec, Canada. It is the second biggest municipality in the RCM, after Saint-Henri. The Etchemin River goes through the village.
History
[edit]The municipality of the parish of Saint-Anselme was founded in 1845. The municipality of the village of Saint-Anselme was created in 1920. The two municipalities were merged in 1998 to create the current municipality.
The year 1829 marked the start of religious construction. A chapel-presbytery was built according to the plans of architect Thomas Baillairgé and his mentor, Abbé Jérôme Demers, Vicar General. François Audet dit Lapointe, then living in Saint-Charles, where he had just finished enlarging the church, was awarded the contract to build the chapel-presbytery, and then, in 1846, the present church, which was completed in 1850.
Around fifteen cooperative groups have been created since 1940:
- the Société coopérative agricole (1941) ;
- la Boulangerie coopérative (1943) ;
- the Meunerie coopérative (1949) ;
- the Garage coopératif (1955);
- Avicole régionale Etchemin ;
- the Cercle des jeunes éleveurs.
Quebec Central and Canadian National railway lines have been located here since 1875, but were replaced by the Bellechasse cycloroute in 2012.
Notable people
[edit]- Georges Dumont (Saint-Anselme, 1898 - Moncton, 1966), medical doctor and politician
- Louis-Napoléon Larochelle (1834-1890), manufacturer, railway contractor and politician
References
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- ↑ "Reference number 338861". Banque de noms de lieux du Québec [Bank of place names of Quebec] (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
- 1 2 "Répertoire des municipalités: Geographic code 19062". www.quebec.ca (in French). Gouvernement du Québec.
- 1 2 "Data table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Saint-Anselme, Municipalité (MÉ) [Census subdivision], Quebec". 9 February 2022.
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