Lac-Poulin

Lac-Poulin
Lac-Poulin
Village municipality
	Location within Beauce-Sartigan RCM.
	Lac-Poulin Location in southern Quebec.
	Coordinates: 46°06′N 70°49′W / 46.100°N 70.817°W
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
RCM	Beauce-Sartigan
Constituted	March 5, 1959
Government
• Mayor	Denis Drouin
• Federal riding	Beauce
• Prov. riding	Beauce-Sud
Area
• Total	1.60 km2 (0.62 sq mi)
• Land	0.88 km2 (0.34 sq mi)
Population (2021)
• Total	171
• Density	195.3/km2 (506/sq mi)
• Pop 2016-2021	16.3%
• Dwellings	154
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0M 1P0
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Highways	No major routes
Census profile	[1]
MAMROT info	29095
Toponymie info	33285
Website	www.lacpoulin.ca

Lac-Poulin (French pronunciation: [lak pulɛ̃]) is a village in the Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population was 171 as of 2021. Lac-Poulin is an enclave of Saint-Benoît-Labre.

Lac-Poulin is named after the lake it surrounds (Poulin), which was named after the first settler Claude Poulin. The first settlers Claude Poulin (1614-1687), a carpenter, was born in St Maclou, Rouen, Normandie, France and his wife Jeanne Mercier (1621-1687) was born in Luçon, Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France. Poulin is a common last name in the region. The village is mainly a summer vacation site.

History

Lac-Poulin was created in 1959 when it split away from Saint-Benoit-Labre.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lac-Poulin had a population of 171 living in 75 of its 154 total private dwellings, a change of 16.3% from its 2016 population of 147. With a land area of 0.88 km² (0.34 sq mi), it had a population density of 194.3/km² (503.3/sq mi) in 2021.^[4]