Sainte-Croix | |
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.jpg) Aerial view of Sainte-Croix | |
 Location within Lotbinière RCM | |
  Sainte-Croix Location in southern Quebec | |
| Coordinates: 46°37′N 71°44′W / 46.62°N 71.73°W[1] | |
| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  Quebec |
| Region | Chaudière-Appalaches |
| RCM | Lotbinière |
| Constituted | October 5, 2001 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Stéphane Dion |
| • Federal riding | Lévis—Lotbinière |
| • Prov. riding | Lotbinière-Frontenac |
| Area | |
• Total | 72.40 km2 (27.95 sq mi) |
| • Land | 69.54 km2 (26.85 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 2,352 |
| • Density | 33.8/km2 (88/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2016-2021 |  0.5% |
| • Dwellings | 1,148 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area code(s) | 418 and 581 |
| Highways |  R-132  R-271 |
| Website | ville-sainte-croix |
Sainte-Croix (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t kʁwa] ) is a municipality in and the seat of Lotbinière Regional County Municipali in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region had a population is 2,352 as of 2021. The new constitution dates from 2001, after the amalgamation of the Parish of and the Village of Sainte-Croix.
Its name refers to the True Cross but had been in use well before its foundation in 1713. In fact, the seigneurie of Sainte-Croix was granted in 1637 to the Company of One Hundred Associates at a point named Platon Sainte-Croix (Holy Cross Flats in English), at the mouth of the Jacques-Cartier River. It had been named as such by Jacques Cartier, who had spent the winter of 1535-1536 there. Samuel de Champlain explained in 1613 that there had been a mistake and was not the place that Cartier had wintered, which was a point that is now called Pointe Platon ("Plato (or Flat) Point").