Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley, Quebec
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Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Beauce-Sartigan
Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality, Quebec
Beauce-Sartigan is a regional county municipality in southeastern Quebec, Canada, on the Chaudière River, in Chaudière-Appalaches. It shares its eastern border with Maine, United States. The county seat is Saint-Georges....

 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
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 1,648 as of 2009.

The municipality was created in 2000 after the merging of the parish municipality of Saint-Honoré and the county municipality of Shenley. It is named after Honoré Desruisseaux, the first reverend of the parish in 1869, and the village of Shenley, in Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire
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, England
England
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