Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Quebec

Municipality in Quebec, Canada

45°31′N 73°07′W / 45.517°N 73.117°W / 45.517; -73.117^[1]Country

QuebecRegionMontérégieRCMLa Vallée-du-RichelieuConstitutedJuly 1, 1855Government

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• MayorMarilyn Nadeau • Federal ridingBeloeil—Chambly • Prov. ridingBorduasArea

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• Total73.00 km² (28.19 sq mi) • Land72.03 km² (27.81 sq mi)Population

(2011)^[4]

• Total3,191 • Density44.3/km² (115/sq mi) • Pop 2006-2011

5.1% • Dwellings

1,361Time zoneUTC−5 (EST) • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)Postal code(s)

Area code(s)450 and 579Highways

R-227Websitewww.msjb.qc.ca

Saint-Jean-Baptiste is a municipality in the Montérégie region of Quebec, a Canadian province. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 3,191. It is located within La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality in a valley between Mont Saint-Hilaire and Mont Rougemont.

On November 4, 1998 it moved from Rouville Regional County Municipality to La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality.

Demographics

Population trend:^[5]

Mother tongue language (2006)^[7]

Community center located opposite the church, on Principale Street
church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste and the mass grave
View of Mont Saint-Hilaire and crop fields from Route 229 (north of the village of Saint-Jean-Baptiste)
View of the front facade of the town hall, located next to the church
Information panel installed in front of the town hall
View of rue Principale (near the corner of chemin de Rouville), on the south side of the village
view of Mont Saint-Hilaire (in the background) and the steeple of the church of the village of Saint-Jean-Baptiste

^ "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 377887". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
^ ^a ^b Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire: Saint-Jean Baptiste
^ Parliament of Canada Federal Riding History: CHAMBLY--BORDUAS (Quebec)
^ ^a ^b 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Quebec
^ Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census
^ King, M.J. (Chairperson of the board). "South Shore Protestant Regional School Board" (St. Johns, PQ). The News and Eastern Townships Advocate. Volume 119, No. 5. Thursday December 16, 1965. p. 2. Retrieved from Google News on November 23, 2014.
^ 2006 Statistics Canada Community Profile: Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Quebec

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Cities

Municipalities

v t e Municipalities of the CMM and/or Montreal CMA
Urban agglomeration of Montreal Urban agglomeration of Longueuil Laval
North Shore	Blainville Bois-des-Filion Boisbriand Charlemagne Deux-Montagnes Gore¹ Kanesatake¹ L'Assomption L'Épiphanie (P)¹ L'Épiphanie (V)¹ Lavaltrie¹ Lorraine Mascouche Mirabel Oka Pointe-Calumet Repentigny Rosemère Saint-Colomban¹ Saint-Eustache Saint-Jérôme¹ Saint-Placide¹ Saint-Joseph-du-Lac Saint-Sulpice Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac Sainte-Thérèse Terrebonne
South Shore	Beauharnois Beloeil Calixa-Lavallée² Candiac Carignan Chambly Châteauguay Contrecoeur² Coteau-du-Lac¹ Delson Hudson Kahnawake¹ L'Île-Cadieux L'Île-Perrot La Prairie Léry Les Cèdres Les Coteaux¹ McMasterville Mercier Mont-Saint-Hilaire Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot Otterburn Park Pincourt Pointe-des-Cascades Richelieu Saint-Amable Saint-Basile-le-Grand Saint-Constant Saint-Isidore Saint-Jean-Baptiste² Saint-Lazare Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu Saint-Mathieu Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil Saint-Philippe Saint-Zotique¹ Sainte-Catherine Sainte-Julie Terrasse-Vaudreuil Varennes Vaudreuil-Dorion Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac Verchères
¹Does not belong to the CMM — ²Does not belong to the Montreal CMA