Saint-Antonin | |
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Municipality | |
Location within Rivière-du-Loup RCM |
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Location in eastern Quebec | |
Coordinates: 47°46′N 69°29′W / 47.767°N 69.483°WCoordinates: 47°46′N 69°29′W / 47.767°N 69.483°W | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
RCM | Rivière-du-Loup |
Constituted | August 30, 1856 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Réal Thibault |
• Federal riding | Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup |
• Prov. riding | Rivière-du-Loup-Témiscouata |
Area | |
• Total | 175.10 km2 (67.61 sq mi) |
• Land | 175.94 km2 (67.93 sq mi) |
There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources |
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Population (2011) | |
• Total | 4,027 |
• Density | 22.9/km2 (59/sq mi) |
• Pop 2006-2011 | 6.5% |
• Dwellings | 1,650 |
Postal code(s) | G0L 2J0 |
Area code(s) | 418 and 581 |
Highways A-85 (TCH) |
Route 185 (TCH) |
Website | www |
Saint-Antonin is a municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada, a few kilometres south of the city of Rivière-du-Loup, in Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality. The municipality is named after Louis-Antonin or Antoine Proulx (1810-1896), priest of Fraserville (Rivière-du-Loup) and was founded in 1856.
On November 1, 2014, Saint-Antonin was changed from a parish municipality to a (regular) municipality.