L'Anse-Saint-Jean, Quebec
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| Coordinates: 48°14′N 70°12′W / 48.233°N 70.200°WCoordinates: 48°14′N 70°12′W / 48.233°N 70.200°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 Quebec
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| Region | Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean |
| RCM | Le Fjord-du-Saguenay |
| Settled | 1839 |
| Constituted | January 1, 1859 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Lucien Martel |
| • Federal riding | Chicoutimi—Le Fjord |
| • Prov. riding | Dubuc |
| Area | |
| • Total | 530.20 km2 (204.71 sq mi) |
| • Land | 512.57 km2 (197.90 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 1,208 |
| • Density | 2.4/km2 (6/sq mi) |
| • Pop (2006–11) |
 11.0% |
| • Dwellings | 965 |
| Time zone | EST (UTC−5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) |
| Postal code(s) | G0V 1J0 |
| Area code(s) | 418 and 581 |
| Climate | Dfb |
| Website | www |
L'Anse-Saint-Jean is a municipality in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. Its population was 1208 in the Canada 2011 Census.
L'Anse-Saint-Jean was founded in 1838 by the Société des Vingt-et-un, a group of lumber prospectors and investors from Charlevoix which was responsible for opening up the Saguenay region to colonization.
It achieved a certain notoriety when its citizens held a referendum on January 21, 1997, to turn the village into the Le Royaume de L'Anse-Saint-Jean, the continent's first "municipal monarchy." The monarchists won 73.9% of the vote, with Denys Tremblay becoming King Denys I. The king was crowned on June 24, Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day, in the Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, and announced plans to build a "vegetable oratory," Saint-Jean-du-Millénaire (Saint John of the Millennium). This micronational project was cheerfully conceded to be a way of boosting tourism in the region, which had been hit by the 1996 Saguenay Flood.
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