Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce, Quebec

Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce is a municipality in the Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 2,343 as of 2009. It is named after biblical judge Gideon.

Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce
Municipality
Location within Beauce-Sartigan RCM.
Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce Location in southern Quebec.
Coordinates: 45°51′N 70°38′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
RCM	Beauce-Sartigan
Constituted	February 12, 2003
Government [2]
• Mayor	Eric Lachance
• Federal riding	Beauce
• Prov. riding	Beauce-Sud
Area [2][3]
• Total	200.00 km^2 (77.22 sq mi)
• Land	196.99 km^2 (76.06 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[3]
• Total	2,277
• Density	11.6/km^2 (30/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	3.1%
• Dwellings	928
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0M 1T0
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Highways	Route 204 Route 269
Website	www.st-gedeon- de-beauce.qc.ca

The municipality was created in February 2003 after the merging of the parish municipality of Saint-Gédéon and the municipality of Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce.[4] The two had split in 1950.

Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce is a site of Canam, one of the largest steel joist factories in Canada.

Notable personalities

Novelist Jacques Poulin was born in Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce.

Carnival king Alex Goulet was born in Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce.

Trivia

Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce is the only municipality whose territory straddles the Chaudière River that does not have a bridge across it.

References

1. Reference number 218972 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French)
2. Geographic code 29013 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (in French)
3. "(Code 2429013) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.
4. http://www.stat.gouv.qc.ca/publications/referenc/pdf/Modfev03.pdf%5B%5D

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