Sainte-Hénédine

Sainte-Hénédine
Parish municipality
Location within La Nouvelle-Beauce RCM
Sainte-Hénédine Location in southern Quebec
Coordinates: 46°33′N 70°59′W / 46.550°N 70.983°W / 46.550; -70.983[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
RCM	La Nouvelle-Beauce
Constituted	July 1, 1855
Government [2]
• Mayor	Yvon Asselin
• Federal riding	Beauce
• Prov. riding	Beauce-Nord
Area [2][3]
• Total	51.20 km2 (19.77 sq mi)
• Land	51.53 km2 (19.90 sq mi)
	There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources
Population  (2021)[3]
• Total	1,440
• Density	27.9/km2 (72/sq mi)
• Pop 2016-2021	13.3%
• Dwellings	564
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0S 2R0
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Highways	R-275
Website	ste-henedine.com

Sainte-Hénédine (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t enedin]) is a parish municipality in La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population is 1,440 as of the Canada 2021 Census.

It is named after Catherine-Hénédine Dionne, widow of Pierre-Elzéar Taschereau, who owned the two seigneuries from which the territory of Sainte-Hénédine was detached.

The parish was first settled in 1852 and became a parish town in 1855.^[4]

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sainte-Hénédine had a population of 1,440 living in 544 of its 564 total private dwellings, a change of 13.3% from its 2016 population of 1,271. With a land area of 51.53 km² (19.90 sq mi), it had a population density of 27.9/km² (72.4/sq mi) in 2021.^[5]

Most of the residents in Sainte-Hénédine are farmers and mostly focused on dairy farming. A few homes line the main street of the town.

Sainte-Hénédine forms part of the federal electoral district of Beauce and has been represented by Richard Lehoux of the Conservative Party since 2019. Provincially, Sainte-Hénédine is part of the Beauce-Nord electoral district and is represented by Luc Provençal of the Coalition Avenir Québec since 2018.

The parish town council consists of 5 councilors and a mayor.^[8] As of 2013 the current town council consists of:

• Michel Duval - Maire
• Réjean Deblois - Conseiller
• Clermont Maranda - Conseiller
• Pierre Nadeau - Conseiller
• Mélissa Leblond - Conseillère
• Jean-François Nadeau - Conseiller
• Marilyn Roy - Conseillère

The mayor is also a member of the regional county council for la Nouvelle-Beauce.

Services provided by the parish includes:

• Recycling and Waste
• Fire Services - single fire station

The smallest buildings in the parish are residential homes and are two stories tall. Large structures are usually barns and silos on dairy farms. The largest and tallest building in town is the Sainte-Hénédine Church (Église Sainte-Hénédine). This is second church built (first in the 1800s), it was blessed in 1912 and consecrated in 1992.^[9]

There are a few key roads within the parish:

• rue Principale (Route Sainte-Therese or Rue Desjardin)
• Highway 275 - rue Langevin

The parish is short distance from Quebec Autoroute 73, which travels north toe Quebec City.

There are no airports in parish, the closest are Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport and Québec/Lac Saint-Augustin Water Airport.

The parish has a single elementary school, École la Découverte, with the Commission scolaire de la Beauce-Echemin.^[10] For secondary education students are sent to Polyvalente Benoît-Vachon in Sainte-Marie.

Bibliothèque de Quebec has branch in Sainte-Hénédine, Bibliothèque La Détente, providing public library access to parish residents.

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