Saint-Bernard is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de la Nouvelle-Beauce in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 2,535 as of 2021. Constituted in 1845, it is named after Archbishop Bernard-Claude Panet.

The municipality is located on scenic Route 171 in Beauce.

On August 26, 1972, five days after escaping from Saint-Vincent-de-Paul jail in Laval, Quebec, notorious French criminal Jacques Mesrine and his Quebec accomplice Jean-Paul Mercier robbed the Caisse populaire of Saint-Bernard. Ten minutes later, they robbed the caisse of Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage, for a total of $26,000 that day.

All of the victims of the 1997 Les Éboulements bus accident save one, the bus driver, were senior citizens from Saint-Bernard.

Population Population trend:

Census	Population	Change (%)
2021	2,535	9.2%
2016	2,321	14.8%
2011	2,021	5.3%
2006	1,920	5.3%
2001	2,028	0.2%
1996	2,023	0.4%
1991	2,014	N/A

Language Mother tongue language (2021)

Language	Population	Pct (%)
French only	2,425	97.4%
English only	5	0.2%
Both English and French	5	0.2%
Other languages	50	2.0%

• Commission de toponymie du Québec
• Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire