Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur-d'Issoudun, Quebec

For other uses, see Issoudun (disambiguation).

Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur-d'Issoudun (French pronunciation: [nɔtʁə dam dy sakʁe kœʁ disudœ̃], lit. 'Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Issoudun') is a parish municipality in the Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population is 869 as of the Canada 2011 Census. It is simply known as Issoudun, given the length of the official name.

Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur-d'Issoudun Issoudun
Parish municipality
Aerial view of Issoudun
Location within Lotbinière RCM
Issoudun Location in southern Quebec
Coordinates: 46°35′N 71°37′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
RCM	Lotbinière
Constituted	January 4, 1909
Government [2]
• Mayor	Annie Thériault
• Federal riding	Lotbinière— Chutes-de-la-Chaudière
• Prov. riding	Lotbinière-Frontenac
Area [2][3]
• Total	60.60 km2 (23.40 sq mi)
• Land	60.00 km2 (23.17 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[3]
• Total	869
• Density	14.5/km2 (38/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	9.4%
• Dwellings	338
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0S 1L0
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Highways A-20	R-271
Website	www.issoudun.qc.ca

The name honours the origin of a group of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart who came to Quebec City in 1900, from Issoudun, France.

On August 11, 1957, Maritime Central Airways Flight 315 crashed near Issoudun, killing 79 people.^[1]

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur-d'Issoudun had a population of 867 living in 351 of its 370 total private dwellings, a change of 0.7% from its 2016 population of 861. With a land area of 60.32 km² (23.29 sq mi), it had a population density of 14.4/km² (37.2/sq mi) in 2021.^[4]

References

1. "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 44890". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
2. "Répertoire des municipalités: Geographic code 33085". www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.
3. "Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur-d'Issoudun, Quebec (Code 2433085) 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.

External links

• Media related to Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur-d'Issoudun at Wikimedia Commons
• Commission de toponymie du Québec
• Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire