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Saint-Célestin, Quebec (village)

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Saint-Célestin is a small village in southern Quebec, Canada. It is a village municipality within the Nicolet-Yamaska Regional County Municipality in the Centre-du-Québec region. The village is mostly surrounded by the larger Saint-Célestin municipality and it borders the city of Bécancour to the northwest.

As of 2021, Saint-Célestin had a population of 892 people living in 382 of its 403 private dwellings. This was a 7.3% increase from 2016. The area of the village is 1.41 square kilometers, giving a population density of about 632.6 people per square kilometer.

Saint-Célestin was constituted on November 25, 1896 and is named after Pope Celestine V. The mayor is Raymond Noël. The federal riding is Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour and the provincial riding is Nicolet-Bécancour.

Postal code: J0C 1G0. Area code: 819. The main highway is Route 226.


This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 07:03 (CET).