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La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality
La Vallée-de-l'Or ''(The Golden Valley)'' is a regional county municipality in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region in Northwestern Quebec, Canada. The seat is in Val-d'Or. It is named for its gold deposits in the Harricana River and Bell River valleys. Before October 11, 2003, it was known simply as Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality. Subdivisions There are 10 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (3) * Malartic * Senneterre * Val-d'Or ;Municipalities (2) * Belcourt * Rivière-Héva ;Parishes (1) * Senneterre ;Unorganized Territory (4) * Lac-Granet * Lac-Metei * Matchi-Manitou * Réservoir-Dozois ;Indian Settlement or Reserve (2) * Kitcisakik Kitcisakik or Grand-Lac Victoria Indian Settlement is an Indian settlement of the Kitcisakik Anicinape Community located in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (wi ... * Lac-Simon Demographics Population Language Transpo ... [...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] |