Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly

Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿ɑ̃twan də tiji]) is a municipality in the Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and had a population is 1,682 as of 2021.

Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly
Municipality
Aerial view of Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly
Coat of arms
Location within Lotbinière RCM.
Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly Location in southern Quebec.
Coordinates: 46°40′N 71°35′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
RCM	Lotbinière
Constituted	July 1, 1855
Government [2]
• Mayor	Richard Bellemare
• Federal riding	Lotbinière— Chutes-de-la-Chaudière
• Prov. riding	Lotbinière-Frontenac
Area [2][3]
• Total	59.60 km2 (23.01 sq mi)
• Land	59.95 km2 (23.15 sq mi)
	There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources
Population  (2021)[3]
• Total	1,682
• Density	28.1/km2 (73/sq mi)
• Pop 2016-2021	5.3%
• Dwellings	853
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0S 2C0
Area codes	418 and 581
Highways	R-132 R-273
Website	www.saintantoine detilly.com

A member of the Most Beautiful Villages of Quebec, Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly has been colonized since the early beginnings of New France. The seigneurie of Villieu was sold in 1700 to Pierre-Noël Le Gardeur de Tilly and became the seigneurie of Tilly, which is still part of the municipality's name.

Saint-Antoine is named in honour of St. Anthony of Padua.

History

Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly church

In 1672, The territory of Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly was given to a lieutenant of the Carignan regiment, Claude-Sébastien de Villieu, by the intendant Jean Talon. Later, The territory was sold to Pierre-Noël Le Gardeur, sieur de Tilly. Under is ownership, in 1702, a parish was canonically erected and the territory took the name Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly. In 1759, the territory is the site of a battle during the conquest of New France.

The municipality was officially created in 1855. In 1909, it lost a small section of its territory for the creation of Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur-d’Issoudun. Finally, in 1995, the status of Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly was changed from a parish municipality to a regular municipality.^[1]