Saint-Eugène-de-Ladrière () is a parish municipality in the Rimouski-Neigette Regional County Municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada.
On July 6, 2002, unorganized territory Grand-Lac-Touradi was annexed by Saint-Eugène-de-Ladrière.
History The area has been inhabited since 1860. At the time, the territory was part of Saint-Fabien.
In 1930, the mission of Saint-Eugène-de-Ladrière was established. The parish registers were opened on 30 January 1938. The first resident minister was Laurent Lavoie from 1942 to 1951.
The first parish priest was Oscar Thibeault from 1959 to 1968. The parish was canonically erected on 17 April 1962 and civilly erected the following 6 September. The municipality of Saint-Eugène-de-Ladrière was therefore created the same year by splitting from Saint-Fabien.
Geography Saint-Eugène-de-Ladrière is located 35 km southwest of Rimouski and 40 km from Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard.
Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Eugène-de-Ladrière 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.
See also List of parish municipalities in Quebec
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