Péribonka
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Péribonka is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the Maria-Chapdelaine Regional County Municipality. It is situated at the mouth of the Peribonka River where it forms a bay on the north shore of Lac Saint-Jean.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Péribonka
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Péribonka vu de la rivière.jpg
- Settlement.flag_size
- 120x100px
- Settlement.shield_size
- 100x80px
- Settlement.motto
- Tes charmes me seduisent("Your charms seduce me")
- Settlement.image_map
- Carte MRC Maria-Chapdelaine - Péribonka.svg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Canada Lac-Saint-Jean Quebec
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean Quebec
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- RCM
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Maria-Chapdelaine
- Settlement.established_title
- Settled
- Settlement.established_date
- 1888
- Settlement.established_title1
- Constituted
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Demographics
- Population
- Notable people
- References
Péribonka is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the Maria-Chapdelaine Regional County Municipality. It is situated at the mouth of the Peribonka River where it forms a bay on the north shore of Lac Saint-Jean.
Louis Hémon (1880-1913), a French writer, spent several months in Péribonka in 1912 during which he prepared the notes for his famous novel, Maria Chapdelaine.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Péribonka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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