Saint-Bernard, Quebec
Saint-Bernard | |
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Saint-Georges street, in the village. | |
Location within La Nouvelle-Beauce RCM. | |
| Coordinates: 46°30′N 71°08′W / 46.500°N 71.133°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Chaudière-Appalaches |
| RCM | La Nouvelle-Beauce |
| Constituted | May 9, 1987 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Liboire Lefebvre |
| • Federal riding | Beauce |
| • Prov. riding | Beauce-Nord |
| Area | |
• Total | 90.60 km2 (34.98 sq mi) |
| • Land | 90.10 km2 (34.79 sq mi) |
| Population (2021) | |
• Total | 2,535 |
| • Density | 28.1/km2 (73/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2016-2021 | 9.2% |
| • Dwellings | 1,048 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area code(s) | 418 and 581 |
| Highways | R-171 |
| Website | saint-bernard |
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Saint-Bernard (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ bɛʁnaʁ] ⓘ) is a municipality in La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality, in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 2,535 as of 2021. Constituted in 1845, it is named after Archbishop Bernard-Claude Panet.
The municipality is located on scenic Route 171 in Beauce.
On August 26, 1972, five days after escaping from Saint-Vincent-de-Paul jail in Laval, Quebec, notorious French criminal Jacques Mesrine and his Quebec accomplice Jean-Paul Mercier robbed the Caisse populaire of Saint-Bernard. Ten minutes later, they robbed the caisse of Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage, for a total of $26,000 that day.
All of the victims of the 1997 Les Éboulements bus accident save one, the bus driver, were senior citizens from Saint-Bernard.