Sainte-Pétronille
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Sainte-Pétronille () is a village municipality in the L'Île-d'Orléans Regional County Municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. It is situated on the south-western tip of Orléans Island, facing Quebec City.
Key facts
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- Sainte-Pétronille
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- Village municipality
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- Fleuve Saint-Laurent - Sainte-Pétronille - Vue aérienne (4).jpg
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- 120x100px
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- 100x80px
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- Location within L'Île-d'Orléans RCM
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- Canada Central Quebec
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- left
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- Location in central Quebec
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- Country
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- Canada
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- Province
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- Quebec
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- Capitale-Nationale
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- RCM
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Saint Petronilla
- Demonym
- Pétronillaise
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- L'Île-d'Orléans
- Population
- 1091
- Area
- 4.30
- Shares border with
- Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans
- Official website
- www.ste-petronille.iledorleans.com
- Image
- Église Sainte-Pétronille (Île d'Orléans).jpg
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- Commons category
- Sainte-Pétronille, Quebec
- inception
- 1874-01-01
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Demographics
- Local government
- See also
- References
- External links
Sainte-Pétronille () is a village municipality in the L'Île-d'Orléans Regional County Municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. It is situated on the south-western tip of Orléans Island, facing Quebec City.
Former notable residents include the Boswell family, who owned the Boswell Brewery in Quebec City from 1843 to 1952, and painter Horatio Walker, whose workshop remains.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sainte-Pétronille” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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