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Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality, Quebec
Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality (''English: Abitibi West'') is a regional county municipality located in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec. Its seat is La Sarre. Subdivisions There are 23 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (3) * Duparquet * La Sarre * Macamic ;Municipalities (15) * Authier * Authier-Nord * Chazel * Clerval * Dupuy * Gallichan * La Reine * Normétal * Palmarolle * Poularies * Rapide-Danseur * Roquemaure * Sainte-Germaine-Boulé * Taschereau * Val-Saint-Gilles ;Parishes (2) * Sainte-Hélène-de-Mancebourg * Saint-Lambert ;Townships (1) * Clermont ;Unorganized Territory (2) * Lac-Duparquet * Rivière-Ojima Demographics Population Language Transportation Access Routes Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border: * Autoroutes ** None * Primary Highways ** ** * Secondary Highways ** ** ** * External Routes ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional County Municipality
The term regional county municipality or RCM (''french: municipalité régionale de comté, MRC'') is used in Quebec, Canada to refer to one of 87 county-like political entities. In some older English translations they were called county regional municipality. Regional county municipalities are a supralocal type of regional municipality, and act as the local municipality in Unorganized area#Quebec, unorganized territories within their borders. The system of regional county municipalities was introduced beginning in 1979 to replace the List of former counties of Quebec, historic counties of Quebec. In most cases, the territory of an RCM corresponds to that of a Census geographic units of Canada, census division; however, there are a few exceptions. Some local municipalities are outside any regional county municipality (''hors MRC''). This includes some municipalities within Urban agglomerations in Quebec, urban agglomerations and also some aboriginal lands, such as Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dupuy, Quebec
Dupuy is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality. It covers 123.48 km² and had a population of 930 as of the Canada 2011 Census. The municipality was incorporated on September 10, 1918. Demographics Population Language Municipal council * Mayor: Marc-André Côté * Councillors: Gérald Arseneault, René Dessureault, Éric Lafontaine, Hélène Laliberté, Yvon Leclerc, Murielle Rossignol-Godin See also * List of municipalities in Quebec __FORCETOC__ Quebec is the second-most populous province in Canada with 8,501,833 residents as of 2021 and is the largest in land area at . For statistical purposes, the province is divided into 1,282 census subdivisions, which are m ... References {{authority control Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Abitibi-Témiscamingue Populated places established in 1918 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clermont, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec
Clermont is a township municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality. It had a population of 482 in the Canada 2011 Census. The population centre itself is also known as Saint-Vital-de-Clermont. The township was incorporated on March 4, 1936. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Clermont had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Politics Alexandre D. Nickner was elected November 3, 2013 as mayor of St-Vital of Clermont. By doing so, he became the youngest mayor of Quebec at the age of only 20 years. After his 4 years mayorship, Nickner decided to quit politics to focus on his company. Daniel Céleste, deputy mayor during Nickner's period, became mayor by defaut in November 2017. List of mayors: * 2017-2021: Daniel Céleste * 2013-2017: Alexandre D. Nickner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Val-Saint-Gilles, Quebec
Val-Saint-Gilles is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality about north of La Sarre. It covers 109.39 km² and with a population of 169 in the 2021 Canadian census, it is the least populous incorporated municipality in the regional county. It lies at the northern edge of the Abitibi Clay Belt. The undulating land is dotted with swamps, a few small lakes, and sand and gravel deposits. Its high point is marked by two hills near the village with an altitude of . The Turgeon River, the only notable river and tributary of the Harricana River, flows through the north-western part of the municipality. History The first settlers, arriving circa 1935 as part of the Vautrin Settlement Plan, came from Clermont, Montreal, and Mont-Laurier. In 1937, they founded the Saint-Gilles-de-Clermont Parish, and two years later, the place separated from Clermont Township and was incorporated as the Municipality of Val-Saint-Gilles, named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taschereau, Quebec
Taschereau is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada in the Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality. It covers 246.97 km² and had a population of 898 as of the Canada 2021 Census. The municipality was incorporated on December 27, 2001. Demographics Population trend:Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ... census * Population in 2021: 898 (2016 to 2021 population change: -6.7%) * Population in 2016: 963 * Population in 2011: 981 * Population in 2006: 996 * Population total in 2001: 1048 ** Taschereau (village): 534 ** Taschereau (municipality): 514 * Population in 1996: ** Taschereau (village): 641 ** Taschereau (municipality): 460 (or 534 when adjusted to 2001 boundaries) * Population in 1991: ** Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sainte-Germaine-Boulé, Quebec
Sainte-Germaine-Boulé is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality. It covers and had a population of 986 as of the Canada 2016 Census. The municipality was incorporated on January 1, 1954. History Sainte-Germaine-Boulé was first settled in 1922 when the family of Noël Boucher and Marie Couillard moved in. The sector was still part of the municipality of Palmarolle at the time. The municipality started in 1932 with the arrival of the family of Roméo Drouin, his brother Amédée Drouin and their parents Louis Drouin and Démérise Beaudoin. One year later a visit of Mgr Rhéaume was organized to fix the location of a future church. The sector continued to develop at a steady pace until 1954 when it officially became its own separate municipality from Palmarolle as well as by gaining territory from the nearby Poularies. The original name of the new municipality was Sainte-Germaine-de-Palmarolle but it was changed to Sain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roquemaure, Quebec
Roquemaure is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada in the MRC d'Abitibi-Ouest. It covers 120.02 km2 and had a population of 409 as of the Canada 2021 Census. The municipality was incorporated on January 1, 1952. Demographics Population trend:Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ... census * Population in 2021: 409 (2016 to 2021 population change: 3.5%) * Population in 2016: 395 * Population in 2011: 414 * Population in 2006: 402 * Population in 2001: 451 * Population in 1996: 459 * Population in 1991: 455 Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 185 (total dwellings: 215) Mother tongue: * English as first language: 0% * French as first language: 100% * English and French as first language: 0% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rapide-Danseur, Quebec
Rapide-Danseur is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality. It covers 173.73 km2 and had a population of 380 as of the Canada 2021 Census. The municipality was incorporated on January 1, 1981. Demographics Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 161 (total dwellings: 209) Mother tongue: * English as first language: 1.3% * French as first language: 98.7% * English and French as first language: 0% * Other as first language: 0% Municipal council The municipal council consists of: * Mayor: Alain Gagnon * Councillors: Joannie Langlois, Lorraine Doucet-Dion, Line Giasson, François Cloutier, Christiane Guillemette, Annie Gauthier Political representation Provincially it is part of the riding of Abitibi-Ouest. In the 2022 Quebec general election the incumbent MNA Suzanne Blais, of the Coalition Avenir Québec, was re-elected to represent the population of Rapide-Danseur in the National Assembly of Quebec. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poularies, Quebec
Poularies is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada in the Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality. It covers 164.95 km² and had a population of 679 as of the Canada 2011 Census. The municipality was incorporated on May 7, 1924. Demographics Population trend:Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ... census * Population in 2011: 679 (2006 to 2011 population change: -2.0%) * Population in 2006: 693 * Population in 2001: 751 * Population in 1996: 838 * Population in 1991: 835 Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 272 (total dwellings: 276) Mother tongue: * English as first language: 3.6% * French as first language: 95.0% * English and French as first language: 0% * Other as first language: 1.4% Municipal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palmarolle, Quebec
Palmarolle is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality. It covers 118.36 km2 and had a population of 1,465 as of the Canada 2011 Census. It is considered to have the best agricultural land of the entire Abitibi region. History The area began to be colonized in 1911 when the township was surveyed. The completion of the National Transcontinental Railway at La Sarre and Macamic led to further waves of development with the arrival of new settlers in 1916, 1918, and 1929. Following the pattern of other places in the Abitibi, the settlement was named after a historic military figure, François-Charles Bertrand de Palmarole or Palmarolle (1714 ‑ 1760), lieutenant of the La Sarre Regiment and Knight of the Order of Saint Louis. In 1921, the parish was formed and in 1930, the place was incorporated as a municipality. Demographics Population trend:Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census * Population in 2011: 1465 (200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
