Country Canada RCM Beauce-Sartigan Time zone EST (UTC−5) Area 152.2 km² Local time Tuesday 12:43 PM | Region Chaudière-Appalaches Constituted April 13, 1994 Postal code(s) G0M 1J0 Population 3,274 (2011) Province Québec | |
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Saint-Côme–Linière is a municipality in the Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. The official spelling given by the Commission de toponymie uses an en dash after "Saint-Côme", but the town's own website uses a second hyphen: Saint-Côme-Linière. The population is 3,282 as of 2009.
Map of Saint-C%C3%B4me-Lini%C3%A8re, QC, Canada
Saint-Côme–Linière was constituted by the amalgamation of the parish municipality of Saint-Côme-de-Kennebec and the village of Linière on August 17, 1994. Saint-Côme was named after Arabian-born Christian martyr Saint Cosmas and Linière received its name from the Lord who was first granted the land and cultivated fields of flax ("Lin" in French).
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Saint-Côme–Linière, Quebec Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA