Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage
Parish municipality in Quebec, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage is a parish municipality in La Mitis Regional County Municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada.
Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage | |
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Coordinates: 48.5757865°N 68.1721856°W / 48.5757865; -68.1721856[1] | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
RCM | La Mitis |
Constituted | September 29, 1873 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Réginald Morissette |
• Federal riding | Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia |
• Prov. riding | Matane-Matapédia |
Area | |
• Total | 32.00 km2 (12.36 sq mi) |
• Land | 30.98 km2 (11.96 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 590 |
• Density | 19/km2 (50/sq mi) |
• Pop 2016-2021 | 12.8% |
• Dwellings | 260 |
Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
Postal code(s) | |
Area code(s) | 418 and 581 |
Highways | R-132 |
Website | www |
It is located 5 km south-east of Mont-Joli in the Matapédia River Valley. The village is 350 km north east of Québec city and 360 km west of Gaspé. The nearest towns are Mont-Joli, and Rimouski which lies 40 km to the south-east.
Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage takes its name from the colonial lordship, the Seigneurie Lepage-et-Thibierge, which was the early governance of the area. Its 500 residents work largely in agriculture and forestry.[4]
The ecclesiastical parish of the same name is in the Archdiocese of Rimouski.