Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval
Sign in to saveSainte-Brigitte-de-Laval () is a city in La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. Its urban area is located in the hollow of the Montmorency River valley, northeast of Quebec City.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Lac Poulin, Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Lac Poulin
- Settlement.flag_size
- 120x100px
- Settlement.image_shield
- Blason ville ca Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval (Québec).svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 100x80px
- Settlement.motto
- Dieu ayde
- Settlement.image_map
- Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval Quebec location diagram.png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location within La Jacques-Cartier RCM
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Canada Central Quebec
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.pushpin_label
- Ste-Brigitte-de-Laval
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in central Quebec
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Canada
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Quebec
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- Lavaloise
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- La Jacques-Cartier
- Population
- 8781
- Area
- 110.40
- Shares border with
- Lac-Jacques-Cartier
- Official website
- sbdl.net
- Image
- Lac Poulin, Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval.jpg
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- Commons category
- Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval
- inception
- 1875-02-11
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Demographics
- Government
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- References
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Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval () is a city in La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. Its urban area is located in the hollow of the Montmorency River valley, northeast of Quebec City.
The city is named in honor of Brigid of Kildare in memory of the Irish origin of the first settlers. The name Laval comes from the situation of Sainte-Brigitte in the seigneury of Beaupré, whose first owner was François de Laval, bishop of Quebec.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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