Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière, Quebec

Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière is a parish municipality in the Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population is 1,248 as of the Canada 2011 Census. It is named after Édouard Faucher, founder and first priest of the parish, and René-Louis Chartier de Lotbinière, first owner of the seigneurie in which Saint-Édouard lay.

Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière
Parish municipality
Location within Lotbinière RCM.
Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière Location in southern Quebec.
Coordinates: 46°34′N 71°50′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
RCM	Lotbinière
Constituted	December 1, 1862
Government [2]
• Mayor	Alain Soucy
• Federal riding	Lotbinière— Chutes-de-la-Chaudière
• Prov. riding	Lotbinière-Frontenac
Area [2][3]
• Total	98.50 km2 (38.03 sq mi)
• Land	98.54 km2 (38.05 sq mi)
	There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources
Population  (2011)[3]
• Total	1,248
• Density	12.7/km2 (33/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	1.0%
• Dwellings	531
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0S 1Y0
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Highways	R-226
Website	www.municipalite. st-edouard.qc.ca

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière had a population of 1,240 living in 520 of its 557 total private dwellings, a change of 3.9% from its 2016 population of 1,194. With a land area of 98.43 km² (38.00 sq mi), it had a population density of 12.6/km² (32.6/sq mi) in 2021.^[4]

References

1. "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 56141". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
2. "Répertoire des municipalités: Geographic code 33080". www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.
3. "Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière, Quebec (Code 2433080) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada.
4. "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Quebec". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved August 29, 2022.