Saint-Quentin, New Brunswick
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| Nickname(s): The maple syrup capital of Atlantic Canada | ||
 Saint-Quentin
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| Coordinates: 47°30′42″N 67°23′25″W / 47.51175°N 67.39014°W | ||
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 Canada
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| Province |
 New Brunswick
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| County | Restigouche | |
| Parish | Saint-Quentin | |
| Founded | 1910 | |
| District Status | 1947 | |
| Town Status | 1996 | |
| Electoral Districts Federal |
Madawaska—Restigouche |
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| Provincial | Restigouche-La-Vallée | |
| Government | ||
| • Type | Saint-Quentin Town Council | |
| • Mayor | Nicole Somers | |
| • Deputy Mayor | Jocelyne Querry Bossé | |
| • Councillors |
List of Members
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| Area | ||
| • Total | 4.30 km2 (1.66 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 283 m (928 ft) | |
| Population (2011) | ||
| • Total | 2,095 | |
| • Density | 486.7/km2 (1,261/sq mi) | |
| • Pop 2006-2011 |
 6.9% |
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| • Dwellings | 968 | |
| Time zone | AST (UTC-4) | |
| • Summer (DST) | ADT (UTC-3) | |
| Postal code(s) | E8A | |
| Area code(s) | 506 | |
| Highways |
 Route 17 Route 180
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| NTS Map | 021O11 | |
| GNBC Code | DAEGG | |
| Website | saintquentin.nb.ca | |
Saint-Quentin is a Canadian town in Restigouche County, New Brunswick.
Saint-Quentin is located in the Appalachian Mountains, 50 kilometres west of Mount Carleton, the province's highest elevation point.
The population was 2,095 in the 2011 census. The town has undergone depopulation in recent years with a 6.9% decrease in population since 2006. Almost everyone speaks French.
In 1897, the Restigouche and Western Railway Company embarked on a project to build a railway linking Campbellton and St-Léonard, two towns in northwestern New Brunswick. The progress of its construction sent workers deep into the forest. In 1909, Simon Gallant, an Acadian working as a blacksmith, decided to settle his family by a stream near Five Fingers where he found a stray cow.
At the same time, authorities began to worry about the emigration of Québec families to the United States and to Western Canada, resulting in a population decline. Msgr. Joseph Arthur Melanson, the largest settler and missionary in Saint-Quentin Parish, originally named Anderson Siding, launched a large program of colonization. Valuing farming and agriculture, he encouraged Acadien and Québécois families to settle in the Restigouche region of New Brunswick on the fertile lands along the length of the newly built train line.
The village of Anderson Siding was founded in 1910; its first mass was held in Simon Gallant's round log cabin in the forest. The first chapel was built in 1911, its first post office in 1912, its first school in 1913, and its first church in 1918. The name Anderson Siding was changed to the present name of Saint-Quentin in 1919 in commemoration of the Canadian victory in the French town of the same name during the Battle of the Somme in the First World War. Its first hospital, Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Joseph, was built in 1947 and is still in operation today.
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