Saint-Ubalde,_Quebec

Saint-Ubalde

Saint-Ubalde

Municipality in Quebec, Canada

Saint-Ubalde is a rural municipality in Portneuf County in the Canadian province of Quebec.

Quick Facts Country, Province ...

Geographically its territory is marked by an agricultural and populated area in the south-west, and an undeveloped hilly area in the north-east.

Numerous watercourses and lakes (Blanc, Sainte-Anne, Ricard, Thom) crisscross and dot is entire territory.

The inhabited section is located in the southeast. Saint-Ubalde is centred on potato cultivation and outdoor recreation (canoeing, water skiing, fishing).[1]'.[4]

History

Saint-Ubald (originally without an "e") was founded by people from Neuville in 1860, and the Saint-Ubald Mission was established that same year. It was named after Ubald Gingras (1824-1874), first sacristan of the place but originally from Pointe-aux-Trembles (Portneuf), and who was brother-in-law of Charles-François Baillargeon, archbishop of Quebec. The mission became a parish in 1866 by separating from Saint-Casimir. In 1873, the civil parish was formed and incorporated as a parish municipality. A year later, its post office opened.[1]

In 1920, the village centre separated from the parish municipality to form the Village Municipality of Saint-Ubalde. But in 1973, the parish and village municipalities merged again to form the new Municipality of Saint-Ubalde.[1]

Demographics

Population trend:[5]

  • Population in 2011: 1403 (2006 to 2011 population change: -3.8%)
  • Population in 2006: 1458
  • Population in 2001: 1460
  • Population in 1996: 1540
  • Population in 1991: 1552

Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 646 (total dwellings: 1015)

Mother tongue:

  • English as first language: 0%
  • French as first language: 99.3%
  • English and French as first language: 0%
  • Other as first language: 0.7%

Photos

  • St Paul-Street
  • St-Paul & Commercial Street sign
  • Heart of the municipality
  • Typical street of rural village
  • Some watercourses in St-Ubalde
  • Rivière Blanche (Saint-Casimir) bridge sign P-17644,[6] reinforced concrete gantry structure, rang Saint-Georges
  • Rivière Blanche (Saint-Casimir) from P-17644, rang Saint-Georges
  • Rivière Blanche (Saint-Casimir) from P-17644, rang Saint-Georges
  • Rivière Charest, from Steel and Wood Bridge P-18620,[6] Bureau Road
  • Rivière Charest, from Steel and Wood Bridge P-18620, Bureau Road
  • Weller River (Stream), steel and wood bridge P-19613,[6] rang Saint-Joseph

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Saint-Ubalde (municipalité)" (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
  2. [2]
    Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire - Répertoire des municipalités: Saint-Ubalde Archived 2015-12-09 at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    Statistics Canada 2011 Census - Saint-Ubalde census profile
  4. [4]
    Stéfanos (2012-07-30). "Hydrological and multi-resource portrait of the Sainte-Anne River watershed" (PDF) (in French). CAPSA. pp. 27/137. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  5. [5]
    Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census
  6. [6]
    "Inventory and Inspection of Structures". Ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable (in French). Government of Quebec. 2023-11-01. Retrieved 2023-10-31.

Media related to Saint-Ubalde at Wikimedia Commons
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Saint-Ubalde,_Quebec, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.