Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage () is a parish municipality in the Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population is 1,152 as of the Canada 2021 Census. It was named after the Narcisse Dionne, an early benefactor of the parish. Beaurivage is associated to the seigneurie of Beaurivage, also known as Saint-Gilles.
The parish municipality, constituted in 1874, covers an area of 62km2, with a population density of 19.
History On August 26, 1972, five days after escaping from Saint-Vincent-de-Paul jail in Laval, Quebec, notorious French criminal Jacques Mesrine and his Quebec accomplice Jean-Paul Mercier robbed the Caisse populaire of Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage. Ten minutes earlier, they had robbed the caisse of Saint-Bernard, for a total of $26,000 that day.
Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage 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.
+ Knowledge of official languages (2021) Language Population Percentage (%) English only 0 0.0% French only 900 78.3% English and French 245 21.3% Neither English nor French 0 0.0%
+ Mother Tongue (2021) Language Population Percentage (%) English 5 0.4% French 97.8% Non-official language 30 2.6%
References
Commission de toponymie du Québec Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire