Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur-d'Issoudun, Quebec

Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur-d'Issoudun is a parish municipality in the Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population is 869 as of the Canada 2011 Census. It is simply known as Issoudun, given the length of the official name.

Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur
-d'Issoudun

Issoudun
Parish municipality
Location within Lotbinière RCM
Issoudun
Location in southern Quebec
Coordinates: 46°35′N 71°37′W[1]
Country Canada
Province Quebec
RegionChaudière-Appalaches
RCMLotbinière
ConstitutedJanuary 4, 1909
Government
  MayorAnnie Thériault
  Federal ridingLotbinière—
Chutes-de-la-Chaudière
  Prov. ridingLotbinière-Frontenac
Area
  Total60.60 km2 (23.40 sq mi)
  Land60.00 km2 (23.17 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[3]
  Total869
  Density14.5/km2 (38/sq mi)
  Pop 2006-2011
9.4%
  Dwellings
338
Time zoneUTC−5 (EST)
  Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)
G0S 1L0
Area code(s)418 and 581
Highways
A-20

Route 271
Websitewww.issoudun.qc.ca

The name honours the origin of a group of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart who came to Quebec City in 1900, from Issoudun, France.

On August 11, 1957, a Maritime Central Airways DC-4 crashed near Issoudun, killing 79 people.[1]

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