Saint-Flavien is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Lotbinière

Lotbinière Regional County Municipality, Quebec

Lotbinière is a Regional County Municipality in central Quebec, Canada in the Chaudière-Appalaches region. It is an almost exclusively rural RCM, with no village with a population above 4,000. As of the 2001 Census, the RCM had a population of 26,851, a decrease of 0.3% since 1996. Its seat is in...

 in Quebec

Quebec

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, Canada

Canada

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. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches

Chaudière-Appalaches

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 region and the population is 1,594 as of 2009. It is named after archbishop

Archbishop

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 Pierre-Flavien Turgeon

Pierre-Flavien Turgeon

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.

Although the new constitution dates from 1999 (as a result of the amalgamation of the parish and the village of Saint-Flavien), the area was settled since 1800. The original territory of Saint-Flavien, part of the seigneurie

Seigneurial system of New France

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of Sainte-Croix, was split several times for the creation of the communities of Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur-d'Issoudun (1903), Dosquet

Dosquet, Quebec

Dosquet is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Lotbinière in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 907 as of 2009....

 (1912), the village of Saint-Flavien (1912), Saint-Janvier-de-Joly

Saint-Janvier-de-Joly, Quebec

Saint-Janvier-de-Joly is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Lotbinière in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 889 as of 2009. It is named after reverend Janvier Lachance, missionary who will serve the parish from 1914 to 1926...

 (1928) and Laurier-Station

Laurier-Station, Quebec

Laurier-Station is a village in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Lotbinière in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 2,444 as of 2009. It is named after its train station, Laurier, itself in honour of prime minister Wilfrid Laurier.- References :**...

 (1951).