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Saint-Léon-de-Standon

parish municipality in Quebec, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ3462821 ↗
Source-derived summary

Saint-Léon-de-Standon is a parish municipality of about 1,000 people in the Bellechasse Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec. The Etchemin River goes through the municipality.

Geography

The Rivière des Fleurs, which flows south-west, forms the south-eastern boundary of the municipality and joins the Etchemin River in the south. From its source in the west of the municipality, the Rivière Viveine, a tributary of the Etchemin River, flows south-east.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Léon-de-Standon had a population of 1,042 living in 543 of its 678 total private dwellings, a change of −7.5% from its 2016 population of 1,127. With a land area of 136.88 km2 (52.85 sq mi), it had a population density of 7.6/km2 (19.7/sq mi) in 2021.

See also

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Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Saint-Léon-de-Standon” is parish municipality in Quebec, Canada. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Saint-Léon-de-Standon, parish and municipality, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Saint-Léon-de-Standon, parish and municipality is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Saint-Léon-de-Standon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.