Baie-Saint-Paul

Also known as Baie-Saint-Paul, QC, Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec

Key facts

Settlement.leader_title: Mayor
Settlement.name: Baie-Saint-Paul
Settlement.settlement_type: City
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Settlement.image_alt: Baie-Saint-Paul skyline
Settlement.image_shield: Blason ville ca Baie-Saint-Paul (Québec).svg
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Settlement.image_map: Baie-Saint-Paul Quebec location diagram.png
Settlement.map_caption: Location within Charlevoix RCM
Settlement.pushpin_map: Canada Central Quebec
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: left
Settlement.pushpin_label: Baie-St-Paul

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History
Geography
Climate
Demographics
Local government
Notable people
See also
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Baie-Saint-Paul (; 2021 Population 7,371; UA population 4,308) is a city in the Province of Quebec, Canada, on the northern shore of the St. Lawrence River. Baie-Saint-Paul is the seat of Charlevoix Regional County Municipality. The city is situated at the mouth of the Gouffre River.

The place gained some prominence in the 1770s when Doctor Philippe-Louis-François Badelard named a disease he was researching the "Baie-Saint-Paul maladie". This illness was the subject of one of the first medical publications done in Lower Canada. It is also where Cirque du Soleil originated back in the early 1980s and the location of the first show using the name Cirque du Soleil during "La Fete Foraine de Baie-Saint-Paul" in 1984.