Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒedeɔ̃ də bos], lit.

Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce is a site of Canam, one of the largest steel joist factories in Canada.

Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce is the only municipality whose territory straddles the Chaudière River that does not have a bridge across it.

Novelist Jacques Poulin was born in Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce.

Carnival king Alex Goulet was born in Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce.