Saint-Jean-de-Brébeuf, Quebec

Saint-Jean-de-Brébeuf is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté des Appalaches in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 397 as of 2009.

Saint-Jean-de-Brébeuf
Municipality
Location within Les Appalaches RCM.
Saint-Jean-de-Brébeuf Location in province of Quebec.
Coordinates: 46°11′N 71°28′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
RCM	Les Appalaches
Constituted	January 1, 1946
Government [2]
• Mayor	Ghislain Hamel
• Federal riding	Mégantic—L'Érable
• Prov. riding	Lotbinière-Frontenac
Area [2][3]
• Total	79.50 km^2 (30.70 sq mi)
• Land	79.00 km^2 (30.50 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[3]
• Total	359
• Density	4.5/km^2 (12/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	8.4%
• Dwellings	166
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G6G 0A1
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Highways	Route 216 Route 267

First named Lower Ireland due to its location in the township of Ireland and in opposition to Upper Ireland, now the hamlet of Maple Grove in Irlande, Saint-Jean-de-Brébeuf was first colonized by English, Irish and Scottish settlers. The current name was given to the municipality at its constitution in 1946. It honours Jean de Brébeuf, a French Jesuit missionary martyred in Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, near Midland, Ontario, in 1649.

The former parish church was converted in 2014 to house Le Théâtre Bleu performance venue.[4]

Sources

1. Reference number 56874 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French)
2. Geographic code 31100 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (in French)
3. "(Code 2431100) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.
4. "Le Théâtre Bleu".

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