Saint-Bernard, Quebec
Saint-Bernard is a municipality in La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality, in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 2,535 as of 2021. Constituted in 1845, it is named after Archbishop Bernard-Claude Panet.
The municipality is located on scenic Route 171 in Beauce.
On August 26, 1972, five days after escaping from Saint-Vincent-de-Paul jail in Laval, Quebec, notorious French criminal Jacques Mesrine and his Quebec accomplice Jean-Paul Mercier robbed the Caisse populaire of Saint-Bernard. Ten minutes later, they robbed the caisse of Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage, for a total of $26,000 that day.
All of the victims of the 1997 Les Éboulements bus accident save one, the bus driver, were senior citizens from Saint-Bernard.
Demographics
PopulationPopulation trend:
| Census | Population | Change |
| 2021 | 2,535 | 9.2% |
| 2016 | 2,321 | 14.8% |
| 2011 | 2,021 | 5.3% |
| 2006 | 1,920 | 5.3% |
| 2001 | 2,028 | 0.2% |
| 1996 | 2,023 | 0.4% |
| 1991 | 2,014 | N/A |
Language
Mother tongue language
| Language | Population | Pct |
| French only | 2,425 | 97.4% |
| English only | 5 | 0.2% |
| Both English and French | 5 | 0.2% |
| Other languages | 50 | 2.0% |