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Beauce-Nord (Quebec Provincial Electoral District)
Beauce-Nord is a provincial electoral district in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It includes notably the municipalities of Sainte-Marie, Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon, Beauceville, Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce and Saint-Isidore. It was created along with Beauce-Sud for the 1973 election from parts of Beauce. It also took parts from Dorchester and Lévis electoral districts. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, its territory was unchanged. Members of the National Assembly Election results ^ Change is from redistributed results. CAQ change is from ADQ. , - , Liberal , Richard Lehoux , align="right", 9,612 , align="right", 37.98 , align="right", , - , - , Independent , Benoît Roy , align="right", 117 , align="right", 0.46 , align="right", , - , Liberal , Claude Drouin , align="right", 8,056 , align="right", 26.38 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality
La Nouvelle-Beauce (''New Beauce'') is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region in southeastern Quebec, Canada, south of the Saint Lawrence River. It is located south of Lévis, along the Chaudière River. Established in 1982 as a successor to Dorchester County, La Nouvelle-Beauce is made of 11 municipalities and is mainly French-speaking (99.2% French-speaking in 2006) and rural. Sainte-Marie, the county seat, is the most populous municipality. The name of La Nouvelle-Beauce reminds the one given to the area along the Chaudière River by the French authorities until the end of the French Regime in North America. Subdivisions There are 11 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (1) * Sainte-Marie ;Municipalities (7) * Frampton * Saint-Bernard * Saint-Elzéar * Saint-Isidore * Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon * Saints-Anges * Scott * Vallée-Jonction ;Parishes (3) * Sainte-Hénédine * Sainte-Marguerite Transportation Access Routes Highw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne, Quebec
Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne is a parish municipality in Beauce-Centre Regional County Municipality the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population is 1,407 as of the Canada 2021 Census. The parish's name honours Reverend Pierre-François-Xavier-''Odilon''-Marie-Alphonse Paradis, first priest of Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne, while "Cranbourne" comes from Cranborne, a village in East Dorset, England. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne 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. Notable people * Simon Nolet, a former National Hockey League player * Prosper-Edmond Lessard Prosper-Edmond Lessard (February 3, 1873 – April 11, 1931) was a Canadian businessman, militia officer and politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1909 to 192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauce-Sud
Beauce-Sud is a provincial electoral district in the Chaudière-Appalaches Chaudière-Appalaches () is an administrative region in Quebec, Canada. It comprises most of what is historically known as the "Beauce" (french: La Beauce; compare with the electoral district of Beauce). It is named for the Chaudière River and ... and Estrie regions of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably includes the municipalities of Saint-Georges, Saint-Prosper, Saint-Côme-Linière, Saint-Martin, Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce and Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce. It was created along with Beauce-Nord for the 1973 election from parts of Beauce electoral district, at the same time also gaining a piece of the old Frontenac district. There were boundary changes elsewhere between the 2001 and 2011 electoral maps, but the territory of Beauce-Sud was unchanged. Members of the National Assembly Election results ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Isidore, Quebec (municipality)
There are two municipalities named Saint-Isidore in Quebec: * Saint-Isidore, Montérégie, Quebec, in Roussillon Regional County Municipality * Saint-Isidore, Chaudière-Appalaches, Quebec, in La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce
Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce is a city in the Municipalité régionale de comté Beauce-Centre in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population was 5,014 as of the Canada 2021 Census. The new city constitution dates from 1999, when the city of Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce and the parish municipality of Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce amalgamated. However, the territory was settled as a ''seigneurie'' in 1736 under Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil, which makes it the oldest settlement in Beauce. In 1747, Vaudreuil would exchange it to Joseph de Fleury de La Gorgendière, who would initiate the development of the settlement. Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce is the seat of the judicial district of Beauce. Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce holds an annual Truck drag race event, the ''Accélération de camions à St-Joseph-de-Beauce'' (Big Rig Drag Racing) which established in 2004. It attracts over 25,000 visitors from all over Canada and much of the United States. Demographics In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauceville
Beauceville is a city in, and the seat of, the Municipalité régionale de comté Beauce-Centre in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population was 6,185 as of the Canada 2021 Census. Beauceville's new constitution dates from 1998, when it amalgamated with Saint-François-Ouest and Saint-François-de-Beauce. The previous city was also the creation of a merging between Beauceville and Beauceville-Est, distinction made because each shared a bank of the Chaudière River. Beauceville was the first municipality in Beauce to be constituted as a city when it detached from Saint-François-de-Beauce in 1904. Geography Covering an area of 164.56 km2, Beauceville extends on both banks of the Chaudière River, 85 km south of Quebec City, 55 km from the border of the US state of Maine and 150 km from Sherbrooke. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Beauceville had a population of living in of its total ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Assembly Of Quebec
The National Assembly of Quebec (officially in french: link=no, Assemblée nationale du Québec) is the legislative body of the province of Quebec in Canada. Legislators are called MNAs (Members of the National Assembly; french: link=no, députés). The King in Right of Quebec, represented by the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec and the National Assembly compose the Legislature of Quebec, which operates in a fashion similar to those of other Westminster-style parliamentary systems. The assembly has 125 members elected first past the post from single-member districts. The National Assembly was formerly the lower house of Quebec's legislature and was then called the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. In 1968, the upper house, the Legislative Council, was abolished and the remaining house was renamed. The office of President of the National Assembly is equivalent to speaker in other legislatures. As of the 2022 Quebec general election, Coalition Avenir Québec has the most seats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the largest province by area and the second-largest by population. Much of the population lives in urban areas along the St. Lawrence River, between the most populous city, Montreal, and the provincial capital, Quebec City. Quebec is the home of the Québécois nation. Located in Central Canada, the province shares land borders with Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast, and a coastal border with Nunavut; in the south it borders Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York in the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, Quebec was called ''Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, Quebec b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaudière-Appalaches
Chaudière-Appalaches () is an administrative region in Quebec, Canada. It comprises most of what is historically known as the "Beauce" (french: La Beauce; compare with the electoral district of Beauce). It is named for the Chaudière River and the Appalachian Mountains. Chaudière-Appalaches has a population of 420,082 residents (as of the Canada 2016 Census) and a land area of . The main cities are Lévis, Saint-Georges, Thetford Mines, Sainte-Marie and Montmagny. Administrative divisions Regional county municipalities Equivalent territory Major communities *Beauceville * L'Islet * Lac-Etchemin * Lévis * Montmagny * Saint-Agapit *Saint-Anselme * Saint-Apollinaire * Saint-Georges * Saint-Henri *Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce *Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon * Sainte-Marie *Thetford Mines Thetford Mines (Canada 2021 Census population 26,072) is a city in south-central Quebec, Canada. It is the seat of Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality. The city is located in the Appalac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tring-Jonction, Quebec
Tring-Jonction is a village in the Beauce-Centre Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population is 1,526 as of 2021. It is named after Tring, a town in Hertfordshire, England. "Jonction" refers to the Quebec Central railway station that was built in 1881. History Tring-Jonction was founded in 1918 by Ephrem Lagueux by splitting away from Saint-Frédéric-de-Beauce. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada Statistics Canada (StatCan; french: Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and cultur ..., Tring-Jonction 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. References Villages in Quebec Incorp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
