What is "chauveau"

Chauveau is a provincial electoral district in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. It includes portions of the Charlesbourg and La Haute-Saint-Charles boroughs of Quebec City and the eastern portion of the La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality.

It was created for the 1966 election from part of Québec-Comté electoral district.

In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier to La Peltrie and the unorganized territory of Lac-Jacques-Cartier to Charlevoix–Côte-de-Beaupré.

It is named after the first Premier of Quebec, Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau who was in power from 1867 to 1873.

Cheaveau is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alexandre Chauveau (1847–1916), lawyer, judge and educator
• Auguste Chauveau (1827–1917), professor and veterinarian
• Claude François Chauveau-Lagarde (1756–1841), lawyer in Paris
• Claude Chauveau (1861-1940), French politician
• François Chauveau (1613–1676), French engraver
• Jean-Pierre Chauveau (born 1942), a member of the Senate of France
• Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (1820–1890), the first premier of the Canadian province of Quebec
• Sylvain Chauveau (born 1971), an instrumental music and electronic music artist and composer from Bayonne, France
• Yves Chauveau (born 1945), a French retired professional football goalkeeper