Saint-Benoît-Labre

Saint-Benoît-Labre is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Beauce-Sartigan in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 1,617 as of 2021. It is named after Benedict Joseph Labre.
In 2001 a group of Cistercian nuns moved from Saint-Romuald, Quebec to a newly constructed Bon Conseil Abbey in Saint-Benoît-Labre, where they make chocolate.
The territory of Saint-Benoît-Labre surrounds the village of Lac-Poulin.

WWW saintbenoitlabre.qc.ca

History

Saint-Benoît-Labre was created in 1894 when sections of Saint-Georges, Saint-Victor-de-Tring, Saint-François and Shenley were split and merged to create a new municipality. In 1993, the status of Saint-Benoît-Labre was changed from a parish municipality to a regular municipality.