Saint-Benoît-Labre
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Saint-Benoît-Labre () is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Beauce-Sartigan in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 1,617 as of 2021. It is named after Benedict Joseph Labre.
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- Saint-Benoît-Labre
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- Municipality
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- Location within Beauce-Sartigan RCM.
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- Canada Southern Quebec
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- Location in southern Quebec.
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- Country
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- Region
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- Chaudière-Appalaches
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- RCM
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- Beauce-Sartigan
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- Constituted
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- January 4, 1894
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- Mayor
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- Jean-Marc Doyon
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- Federal riding
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Saint-Benoît-Labre () is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Beauce-Sartigan in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 1,617 as of 2021. It is named after Benedict Joseph Labre.
In 2001 a group of Cistercian nuns moved from Saint-Romuald, Quebec to a newly constructed Bon Conseil Abbey () in Saint-Benoît-Labre, where they make chocolate.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saint-Benoît-Labre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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