Saint-Bernard, Quebec

Saint-Bernard is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de la Nouvelle-Beauce in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 1,975 as of 2009. Constituted in 1845, it is named after Archbishop Bernard-Claude Panet.

Saint-Bernard
Municipality
Saint-Georges street, in the village.
Location within La Nouvelle-Beauce RCM.
Saint-Bernard Location in southern Quebec.
Coordinates: 46°30′N 71°08′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
RCM	La Nouvelle-Beauce
Constituted	May 9, 1987
Government [2]
• Mayor	Liboire Lefebvre
• Federal riding	Beauce
• Prov. riding	Beauce-Nord
Area [2][3]
• Total	90.60 km^2 (34.98 sq mi)
• Land	90.01 km^2 (34.75 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[3]
• Total	2,131
• Density	23.7/km^2 (61/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	11.0%
• Dwellings	914
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0S 2G0
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Highways	Route 171

The municipality is located on scenic Route 171 in Beauce.

On August 26, 1972, five days after escaping from Saint-Vincent-de-Paul jail in Laval, Quebec, notorious French criminal Jacques Mesrine and his Quebec accomplice Jean-Paul Mercier robbed the Caisse populaire of Saint-Bernard. Ten minutes later, they robbed the caisse of Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage, for a total of $26,000 that day.[4]

All of the victims of the 1997 Les Éboulements bus accident save one, the bus driver, were senior citizens from Saint-Bernard.[5]

References

1. Reference number 207216 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French)
2. Geographic code 26055 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (in French)
3. "(Code 2426055) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.
4. "Jacques Mesrine". Les grands criminels. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
5. "milestonesoct13". Retrieved 7 April 2018.

• Commission de toponymie du Québec
• Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire