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Vallée-Jonction
Municipality in Quebec, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vallée-Jonction 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 1,864 as of 2021.[5]
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Vallée-Jonction | |
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![]() L'Enfant-Jésus church and presbytery. | |
![]() Location within La Nouvelle-Beauce RCM. | |
Coordinates: 46°22′N 70°55′W[1] | |
Country | ![]() |
Province | ![]() |
Region | Chaudière-Appalaches |
RCM | La Nouvelle-Beauce |
Constituted | March 22, 1989 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Patricia Drouin[3] |
• Federal riding | Beauce |
• Prov. riding | Beauce-Nord |
Area | |
• Total | 25.90 km2 (10.00 sq mi) |
• Land | 25.32 km2 (9.78 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[5] | |
• Total | 1,864 |
• Density | 73.1/km2 (189/sq mi) |
• Pop 2016-2021 | ![]() |
• Dwellings | 862 |
Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
Postal code(s) | |
Area code(s) | 418 and 581 |
Highways ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
Website | www.vallee jonction.qc.ca |
In 1881, the Lévis and Kennebec Railway opened a train station between Sainte-Marie and Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce named Beauce-Jonction. When the Quebec Central Railway bought it in 1882, Beauce-Jonction became one of the most important train stations on the Lévis-Sherbrooke line.
In 1900, the parish of L'Enfant-Jésus was constituted, and part of its territory was detached in 1924 to form a village of the same name, but known locally as Beauce-Junction, after the post office opened in 1883. The village changed its name to Vallée-Jonction in 1949. L'Enfant-Jésus and Vallée-Jonction amalgamated in 1989 to form the current municipality.