Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax

Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax is a municipality in the Centre-du-Québec region of the province of Quebec in Canada.

Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax
Municipality
Location within L'Érable RCM.
Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax Location in southern Quebec.
Coordinates: 46°09′N 71°43′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Centre-du-Québec
RCM	L'Érable
Constituted	December 17, 1997
Government [2]
• Mayor	Marc Nadeau
• Federal riding	Mégantic—L'Érable
• Prov. riding	Arthabaska
Area [2][3]
• Total	92.30 km2 (35.64 sq mi)
• Land	92.13 km2 (35.57 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[3]
• Total	595
• Density	6.5/km2 (17/sq mi)
• Pop 2016-2021	2.8%
• Dwellings	258
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0P 1L0
Area code	819
Highways	R-165
Website	www.saintesophie dhalifax.com

Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax was constituted by the December 17, 1997 amalgamation of the municipality of Sainte-Sophie and the township municipality of Halifax-Nord.

According to the Commission de toponymie du Québec, the municipality got its name from the work of a Parish priest named Abbot Charles Trudell, in honor of Saint Sophia. Originally, Sainte-Sophie was its own entity, which split from Halifax du Nord in 1937. Halifax du Nord & Sainte-Sophie reunited in 1997, thus reforming Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax.^[4]

Geography

Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax is about 10km southeast of Plessisville, Quebec . It is accessible via Quebec Route 165.