Country Canada RCM La Nouvelle-Beauce Time zone EST (UTC−5) Area 90.6 km² Local time Tuesday 11:42 AM | Region Chaudière-Appalaches Constituted May 9, 1987 Postal code(s) G0S 2G0 Population 2,131 (2011) Province Québec | |
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Saint-Bernard 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 1,975 as of 2009. Constituted in 1845, it is named after Archbishop Bernard-Claude Panet.
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Map of Saint-Bernard, QC, Canada
The municipality is located on scenic Route 171 in Beauce.
Trivia
On August 26, 1972, five days after escaping from Saint-Vincent-de-Paul jail in Laval, Quebec, notorious French criminal Jacques Mesrine and his Quebec accomplice Jean-Paul Mercier robbed the Caisse populaire of Saint-Bernard. Ten minutes later, they robbed the caisse of Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage, for a total of $26,000 that day.
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Saint-Bernard, Quebec Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA