Saint-Janvier-de-Joly, Quebec
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Saint-Janvier-de-Joly is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Lotbinière
Lotbinière Regional County Municipality, Quebec
Lotbinière is a Regional County Municipality in central Quebec, Canada in the Chaudière-Appalaches region. It is an almost exclusively rural RCM, with no village with a population above 4,000. As of the 2001 Census, the RCM had a population of 26,851, a decrease of 0.3% since 1996. Its seat is in...

 in Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada
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. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches
Chaudière-Appalaches
Chaudière-Appalaches is an administrative region in Quebec, Canada. It comprises most of what is historically known as the "Beauce" |the electoral district of Beauce]]). It is named for the Chaudière River and the Appalachian Mountains....

 region and the population is 889 as of 2009. It is named after reverend Janvier Lachance, missionary
Missionary
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 who will serve the parish from 1914 to 1926. "Joly" honours Quebec premier
Premier
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 Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, served as the fourth Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec, a federal Cabinet minister, and the seventh Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.- Early years :...

 and owner of the seigneurie
Seigneurial system of New France
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of Lotbinière, in which part of Saint-Janvier-de-Joly's territory lay.

The post office, opened in 1924, is called Joly, name under which the municipality is most commonly known.
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