Baie-Saint-Paul
Baie-Saint-Paul | |
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Location within Charlevoix RCM | |
| Coordinates: 47°27′N 70°30′W / 47.450°N 70.500°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Capitale-Nationale |
| RCM | Charlevoix |
| Constituted | January 3, 1996 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Michaël Pilote |
| • Federal riding | Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île d'Orléans—Charlevoix |
| • Prov. riding | Charlevoix–Côte-de-Beaupré |
| Area | |
• Total | 564.36 km2 (217.90 sq mi) |
| • Land | 545.85 km2 (210.75 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 4.03 km2 (1.56 sq mi) |
| Population (2021) | |
• Total | 7,371 |
| • Density | 13.5/km2 (35/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 4,308 |
| • Urban density | 1,069.5/km2 (2,770/sq mi) |
| • Pop (2016-21) | 3.1% |
| • Dwellings | 3,782 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area codes | 418 and 581 |
| Highways | R-138 R-362 R-381 |
| Website | www |
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Baie-Saint-Paul (French pronunciation: [bɛ sɛ̃ pɔl]; 2021 Population 7,371; UA population 4,308) is a city in the Province of Quebec, Canada, on the northern shore of the St. Lawrence River. Baie-Saint-Paul is the seat of Charlevoix Regional County Municipality. The city is situated at the mouth of the Gouffre River.
The place gained some prominence in the 1770s when Doctor Philippe-Louis-François Badelard named a disease he was researching the "Baie-Saint-Paul maladie". This illness was the subject of one of the first medical publications done in Lower Canada. It is also where Cirque du Soleil originated back in the early 1980s and the location of the first show using the name Cirque du Soleil during "La Fete Foraine de Baie-Saint-Paul" in 1984.