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Saint-Cyprien, Bas-Saint-Laurent

Saint-Cyprien
Municipality
Location within Rivière-du-Loup RCM
Saint-Cyprien Location in eastern Quebec
Coordinates: 47°54′N 69°01′W / 47.900°N 69.017°W / 47.900; -69.017[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Bas-Saint-Laurent
RCM	Rivière-du-Loup
Constituted	January 1, 1883
Government [2]
• Mayor	Michel Lagacé
• Federal riding	Montmagny—L'Islet— Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup
• Prov. riding	Rivière-du-Loup-Témiscouata
Area [2][3]
• Total	140.00 km2 (54.05 sq mi)
• Land	138.43 km2 (53.45 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[3]
• Total	1,078
• Density	7.8/km2 (20/sq mi)
• Pop 2016-2021	1.1%
• Dwellings	502
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0L 2P0
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Highways	R-232 R-293
Website	www.municipalite.saint-cyprien.qc.ca

Saint-Cyprien (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ sipʁijɛ̃]) is a municipalityinRivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada.

History[edit]

It was from 1862 that the first settlers began to develop this territory; Most of them came from parishes on the southern coast of the Saint Lawrence (Trois-Pistoles, Saint-Éloi, L'Isle-Verte). The municipality was officially created in 1883 under the name of Hocquart by splitting away from the municipality of Saint-Éloi. Two years later, a large section of Hocquart was taken away to create the municipality of Saint-Clément.

The municipality lost its church in January 1954 in a fire which originated in the furnace system. Two years later, the new church built by corvée came into operation. Five years later, in 1959, Hocquart changed its name to become the current municipality of Saint-Cyprien.

See also[edit]

• List of municipalities in Quebec

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Media related to Saint-Cyprien, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Quebec at Wikimedia Commons

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