Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce

Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒedeɔ̃ də bos], lit. 'Saint Gédéon of 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 2,093 as of 2021. It is named after biblical judge Gideon.

Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce
Municipality
Church of Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce
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
Named after	Gideon and Beauce[1]
Government [2]
• Mayor	Alain Quirion
• Federal riding	Beauce
• Prov. riding	Beauce-Sud
Area [2][3]
• Total	200.00 km2 (77.22 sq mi)
• Land	197.37 km2 (76.20 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[3]
• Total	2,093
• Density	10.6/km2 (27/sq mi)
• Pop 2016-2021	5.1%
• Dwellings	956
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0M 1T0
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Highways	R-204 R-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.

Geography

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

Notable people

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

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