Saint-Léon-le-Grand | |
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![]() Location within Maskinongé RCM. | |
Coordinates: 46°19′N 72°56′W / 46.317°N 72.933°W [1] | |
Country | ![]() |
Province | ![]() |
Region | Mauricie |
RCM | Maskinongé |
Constituted | July 1, 1855 |
Named for | Pope Leo I [1] |
Government | |
• Mayor | Robert Lalonde |
• Federal riding | Berthier—Maskinongé |
• Prov. riding | Maskinongé |
Area | |
• Total | 75.90 km2 (29.31 sq mi) |
• Land | 75.97 km2 (29.33 sq mi) |
There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources | |
Population (2021)
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• Total | 863 |
• Density | 11.4/km2 (30/sq mi) |
• Pop 2016-2021 | ![]() |
• Dwellings | 393 |
Time zone | UTC−5 ( EST) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC−4 ( EDT) |
Postal code(s) | |
Area code | 819 |
Highways | ![]() |
Saint-Léon-le-Grand is a parish municipality in the Maskinongé Regional County Municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec, Canada.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Léon-le-Grand had a population of 863 living in 369 of its 393 total private dwellings, a change of -7% from its 2016 population of 928. With a land area of 75.97 km2 (29.33 sq mi), it had a population density of 11.4/km2 (29.4/sq mi) in 2021. [4]
Population trend: [5]
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