Honfleur, Quebec
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Honfleur | |
|---|---|
 Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil Church | |
| Motto: Floreat Honfleur ("May Honfleur flourish") | |
 Location within Bellechasse RCM | |
  Honfleur Location in southern Quebec | |
| Coordinates: 46°39′21″N 70°52′50″W / 46.65583°N 70.88056°W[1] | |
| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  Quebec |
| Region | Chaudière-Appalaches |
| RCM | Bellechasse |
| Constituted | March 5, 1915 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Luc Dion |
| • Federal riding | Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis |
| • Prov. riding | Bellechasse |
| Area | |
• Total | 50.70 km2 (19.58 sq mi) |
| • Land | 50.67 km2 (19.56 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | |
• Total | 881 |
| • Density | 17.4/km2 (45/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2016–2021 |  3.8% |
| • Dwellings | 338 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code | |
| Area codes | 418 and 581 |
| Highways | No major routes |
| Website | www |
Honfleur (French: [ɔ̃flœʁ] ⓘ) is a municipality in the Bellechasse Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. In the 2021 Canadian census, the municipality had a population of 881 living in 338 of its 353 total private dwellings, a change of 3.8 per cent from its 2016 population of 849. With a land area of 50.67 km2, it had a population density of 17.4 inhabitants per square kilometre.[2]
The municipality is located about 9 kilometres northeast of Saint-Anselme. The Boyer River rises within its territory.[1]
The name Honfleur was adopted from the local post office established in 1903 and refers to Honfleur in Calvados, Normandy, France. The Commission de toponymie du Québec states that the name recalls the French port from which many sailors departed for North America in the 16th and 17th centuries, including Samuel de Champlain in 1603.[1]
According to the same source, the Quebec municipality may also have received its name because an ancestor of Cardinal Louis-Nazaire Bégin was from Saint-Léonard-de-Honfleur. The parish of Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil de Honfleur was erected in 1905, and the official demonym is Honfleurois.[1]
