Vallée-Jonction, Quebec

Vallée-Jonction
Municipality
Location within La Nouvelle-Beauce RCM.
Vallée-Jonction Location in southern Quebec.
Coordinates: 46°22′N 70°55′W / 46.367°N 70.917°WCoordinates: 46°22′N 70°55′W / 46.367°N 70.917°W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
RCM	La Nouvelle-Beauce
Constituted	March 22, 1989
Government[2]
• Mayor	Réal Bisson
• Federal riding	Beauce
• Prov. riding	Beauce-Nord
Area[2][3]
• Total	25.90 km^2 (10.00 sq mi)
• Land	25.32 km^2 (9.78 sq mi)
Population (2011)[3]
• Total	1,940
• Density	76.6/km^2 (198/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	3.9%
• Dwellings	851
Time zone	EST (UTC−5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−4)
Postal code(s)	G0S 3J0
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Highways A-73	Route 112 Route 173
Website	www.vallee jonction.qc.ca

Vallée-Jonction is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de la Nouvelle-Beauce in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 1,895 as of 2009.

In 1881, the Lévis and Kennebec Railway opened a train station between Sainte-Marie and Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce named Beauce-Jonction. When the Quebec Central Railway bought it in 1882, Beauce-Jonction became one of the most important train stations on the Lévis-Sherbrooke line.

In 1900, the parish of L'Enfant-Jésus was constituted and part of its territory was detached in 1924 to form a village of the same name, but known locally as Beauce-Junction, after the post office opened in 1883. The village changed its name to Vallée-Jonction in 1949. L'Enfant-Jésus and Vallée-Jonction amalgamated in 1989 to form the current municipality.

References

1. Reference number 224194 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (French)
2. Geographic code 26015 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (French)
3. "(Code 2426015) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.

• Commission de toponymie du Québec
• Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire