Country Canada RCM Beauce-Sartigan Time zone EST (UTC−5) Area 200 km² Population 2,277 (2011) | Region Chaudière-Appalaches Constituted February 12, 2003 Postal code(s) G0M 1T0 Province Québec Local time Tuesday 2:45 PM | |
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Saint-Gédéon-de-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 2,343 as of 2009. It is named after biblical judge Gideon.
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Map of Saint-G%C3%A9d%C3%A9on-de-Beauce, QC, Canada
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. The two had split in 1950.
Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce is a site of Canam, one of the largest steel joist factories in Canada.
Notable personalities
Novelist Jacques Poulin was born in Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce.
Trivia
Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce is the only municipality whose territory straddles the Chaudière River that does not have a bridge across it.
References
Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce, Quebec Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA