Péribonka
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This article is about the municipality in Quebec. For the river, see Peribonka River.
Péribonka is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the Maria-Chapdelaine Regional County Municipality. It is situated at the mouth of the Peribonka River where it forms a bay on the north shore of Lac Saint-Jean.
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Péribonka | |
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Coordinates: 48°46′N 72°03′W[1] | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean |
RCM | Maria-Chapdelaine |
Settled | 1888 |
Constituted | September 19, 1908 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Ghislain Goulet |
• Federal riding | Lac-Saint-Jean |
• Prov. riding | Roberval |
Area | |
• Total | 129.10 km2 (49.85 sq mi) |
• Land | 110.30 km2 (42.59 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[3] | |
• Total | 489 |
• Density | 4.4/km2 (11/sq mi) |
• Pop (2016–21) | 5% |
• Dwellings | 304 |
Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
Postal code(s) | |
Area code(s) | 418 and 581 |
Highways | R-169 |
Website | www |
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Louis Hémon (1880-1913), a French writer, spent several months in Péribonka in 1912 during which he prepared the notes for his famous novel, Maria Chapdelaine.
Peribonka comes from the Innu word periwanga (or possibly from pelipaukau), meaning "river digging in/removing the sand", from the roots per or pen, "to remove", and anga, meaning "sand".[1]