Saint-Simon-les-Mines
Sign in to saveSaint-Simon-les-Mines () 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 573 as of 2021. It is named after Simon the Zealot, one of Jesus' apostles, while "les Mines" refers to a small gold mine that was discovered and exploited in the mid-nineteenth century.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Saint-Simon-les-Mines
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- St-SimonLesMines.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Rue Principale
- Settlement.image_map
- Saint-Simon-les-Mines Quebec location diagram.png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location within Beauce-Sartigan RCM.
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- Canada Southern Quebec
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in southern Quebec.
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Chaudière-Appalaches
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- RCM
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Beauce-Sartigan
- Settlement.established_title1
- Constituted
- Settlement.established_date1
- June 1, 1950
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Martin Busque
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Beauce-Sartigan
- Population
- 593
- Area
- 47.30
- Shares border with
- Saint-Benjamin
- Official website
- www.sslm.ca
- Image
- N1000300392 30007000 6407.jpg
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- Commons category
- Saint-Simon-les-Mines
- inception
- 1950-06-01
- postal code
- G0M 1K0
- external georeferencing URL
- app.geocentriq.com/mrc/beauce-sartigan/municipalite/saint-simon-les-mines
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Saint-Simon-les-Mines () 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 573 as of 2021. It is named after Simon the Zealot, one of Jesus' apostles, while "les Mines" refers to a small gold mine that was discovered and exploited in the mid-nineteenth century.
==References== Commission de toponymie du Québec Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saint-Simon-les-Mines” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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