Saint-Apollinaire is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Lotbinière in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 7,968 as of 2021. It is named after Saint Apollinaris (French: Saint Apollinaire). In 1738, Angélique le Gardeur, daughter of the seigneur of Tilly, became a widow and was granted a seigneury which she named the seigneury of Gaspé, after her late husband. This seigniory is located to the south of the seigniory of Tilly. the current municipality of St-Apollinaire is within the limits of that seigneury of Gaspé. In 1806, a road crossing the territory of the seigneury of Gaspé was opened between Saint-Nicolas (today Lévis) and Saint-Gilles, which allowed the developpement of the county of Lotbinière. The municipality is canonically imposed on November 23, 1853, and on July 1, 1855, the parish municipality of Saint-Apollinaire is officially founded. The territory then grows rapidly. There is the construction of the first school, the arrival of the railway, the installation of the first telegraph line. The telephone arrives in 1905 Saint-Apollinaire was amputed of parts of its territory on two separate occasions. First in 1867 for the creation of Saint-Agapit-de-Beaurivage (founded from a section of Saint-Gilles also) and a second time in 1919 for the creation of Francoeur. More information...
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