The municipality has 601 inhabitants (2019), on a territory of just over 145 km2, divided between logging and agricultural land development.[5] Demonym: Auvergnat, ate (French).
Toponymy
In 1893, the local mission was founded, named after Sister Sainte-Christine, born Clara Deschènes, who held a senior position at the Daughters of Charity in Quebec at that time. [2]
In 1895, it became a parish by separating from Saint-Raymond, Saint-Basile, and Notre-Dame-de-Portneuf, it was incorporated as the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Christine. In 1896 its post office opened.
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The town was also frequently called Sainte-Christine-de-l'Auvergne, Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne, or Sainte-Christine-de-Portneuf in order to distinguish it from a namesake municipality in the Montérégie region. In 1991, the place officially changed its name to Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne.[2]
Sainte-Catherine-d’Auvergne, overview
Church, presbytery and Town hall, Principale St. (route 354)
Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne Cemetery, Catholic (Latin rite), Principale St. (route 354)
Sainte-Anne River, public landing zone, upstream of the Chutes-Ford Dam
^"Church of Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne". Ministry of Culture and Communications Quebec (in French). Directory of Quebec cultural heritage. 2003. Retrieved 27 October 2024. Church built in 1893 and 1894, by Samuel Gignac, craftsman (carpenter, mason, joiner, etc.)
^ abcd"Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne, toponymy". Gouvernement of Quebec (in French). Commission de Toponymy Quebec. 24 April 1992. Retrieved 26 October 2024. Administratively, the municipality of the parish of Sainte-Christine, created in 1896, occupies a territory of 145 km², about twenty kilometers west of Saint-Raymond, between Saint-Alban and Saint-Léonard-de -Portneuf
^"Odonymy Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne"(PDF) (in French). March 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2024. .. Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne is recognized for its immense forests. The first settlers settled there and built, in 1894, the church which will become the only one in the regional territory to be built entirely of wood.
^"Ponts des Cascades, toponymy". Gouvernement of Quebec (in French). Commission de Toponymy Quebec. 2 May 1985. Retrieved 24 October 2024. These bridges span the Sainte-Anne River in Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne (Municipality)
^"Post Office, Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne". Gouvernement of Quebec (in French). Commission de Toponymy Quebec. 29 June 1990. Retrieved 26 October 2024. Auvergne is the old name of the post office
^"Ford Falls Dam, toponymy". Gouvernement of Quebec (in French). Commission de Toponymy Quebec. 27 February 2003. Retrieved 24 October 2024. This dam, 6.6 m high and almost 89 m long, has a retaining capacity of 621,000 cubic meters of water. The high-capacity concrete-gravity structure, erected across the Sainte-Anne River, was built in 1930, then modified in 1994.
^"Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne, Municipalité [Census subdivision], Quebec". Gouvernement of Canada. Statistics Canada. 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2024. The table shows total, Family characteristics, Marital status, Household and dwelling characteristics, Age characteristics male and female data grouped, etc.