Saint-Léon-le-Grand () is a parish municipality in the Maskinongé Regional County Municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec, Canada.
History In 1708, the area was granted as a seignory to François Dumontier (1666-1714), secretary of Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil, with settlement beginning in the late 18th century. In 1797, a mission was founded, that became a parish in 1833. The parish was called Saint-Léon-le-Grand in honour of Pope Leo the Great, while the place was initially known as Saint-Léon-de-Dumontier.
In 1847, the Municipality of Dumontier was created, abolished in 1847, and reestablished as the Parish Municipality of Saint-Léon-le-Grand on July 1, 1855.
Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Léon-le-Grand had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Mother tongue (2021): English as first language: 0.6% French as first language: 98.8% English and French as first languages: 0% Other as first language: 0.6%
Government List of former mayors:
Roland Pelletier (...–2005) Robert Lalonde (2005–2021) Marilyne Gélinas (2021–2025) Christian Charette (2025–current)
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