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List Of Townships In Quebec
This article lists the townships of Quebec in Canada. The townships (french: canton) no longer represent administrative divisions recognized by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (Quebec) (MAMH). Only municipal townships, formed from one or more townships, such as township municipalities and united township municipalities, are recognized. Many geographic townships are still conterminous with municipalities. See also * List of township municipalities in Quebec * |
Township (Quebec)
A township (french: canton) in Quebec, Canada, is a cadastral division of the land. The township system was implemented by the British government to facilitate the granting of public lands for settlement by populations of European background, particularly Loyalists from the American Revolution. Townships were initially also a unit of local government, but that is no longer the case. Townships are now used solely for land description and do not have a governmental function. In the Quebec system, townships for the most part are approximately 10 miles by 10 miles square, except for those located on the banks of a navigable waterway which are 9 miles abreast and 12 miles deep. Creation of the township system Under the seigneurial system of land holdings in force in New France, a local lord, or "seigneur" had overall control of a large area of land. Individuals who held plots of land within the seigneury had to pay seigneurial duties to the local seigneur. Post- conquest, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Abitibi-Témiscamingue () is an List of regions of Quebec, administrative region located in western Québec, Canada, along the border with Ontario. It became part of the province in 1898. It has a land area of and its population was 146,717 people as of the 2016 Canadian Census, 2016 Census. The region is divided into five Regional county municipality, regional county municipalities (''French'': municipalité régionale de comté, or MRC) and 79 municipalities. Its economy continues to be dominated by Primary sector of the economy, resource extraction industries. These include logging, mining all along the rich geologic Cadillac Fault between Val-d'Or and Rouyn-Noranda, as well as agriculture. Population The 2013 statistics for the region show the following: *Population: 147,931 *Area: 57,349 km2 *Population Density: 2.6 per km2 *Birth Rate: 9.2% (2004) *Death Rate: 7.5% (2003) Languages The following languages predominate as the primary language spoken at home: *French, 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adstock, Quebec
Adstock is a municipality in the Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population in the Canada 2016 Census was 2,806. Adstock was created on February 14, 2001, after the amalgamation of Saint-Méthode-de-Frontenac, Quebec, Saint-Méthode-de-Frontenac and Sacré-Coeur-de-Marie-Partie-Sud, Quebec, Sacré-Coeur-de-Marie-Partie-Sud. On October 24, 2001, Sainte-Anne-du-Lac, Chaudière-Appalaches, Quebec, Sainte-Anne-du-Lac joined the new municipality. Adstock was named after the township in which the former municipality of Saint-Méthode-de-Frontenac lies. The township was itself named after the village of Adstock in Buckinghamshire, England. References External links * {{authority control Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Chaudière-Appalaches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adstock (canton)
''For the municipality in Quebec, see Adstock, Quebec'' Adstock is a village and civil parish about northwest of Winslow and southeast of Buckingham in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire. The 2001 Census recorded a parish population of 415 reducing to 363 at the 2011 Census. There are remains of a Roman road in the village. In the divisions of England that took place between AD 613 and 1017, Buckinghamshire was divided into eight hundreds. The manor of Adstock originally formed part of the Votesdune Hundred, then merged into the Ashendon Hundred and was finally absorbed into the Buckingham Hundred. At that time it was surrounded by the Bernwood, one of the most important Royal Forests. At the end of the 10th century, Adstock formed a portion of the Lands of Godwine, Earl of Kent and his second wife Gytha Thorkelsdóttir. After the Norman conquest of England, its name was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Edestoche'' which is Old English and means ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senneterre (parish)
Senneterre is a parish municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality. The parish is mostly a rural municipality that almost completely surrounds the actual population centre of the neighbouring City of Senneterre. The place is named after the geographic township of Senneterre, that in turn was named in honour of a captain of the Languedoc Regiment that fought under General Montcalm. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Senneterre 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. 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; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adhémar (canton)
Adhemar is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Adhemar of Salerno (died 861), prince * Adhemar of Capua (died after 1000), prince * Adhémar de Chabannes (988-1034), French monk and historian * Adhemar of Le Puy (died 1098), bishop * Adhémar Jori/Jory (1375), lord of Domeyrat près Carlat, * François Adhémar de Monteil (1603–1689), Archbishop of Arles * François Adhémar de Monteil, Comte de Grignan (1632–1714), French aristocrat * Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (died 1886), mechanician * Adhemar (footballer, born 1896), Adhemar dos Santos, Brazilian football midfielder * Adhemar de Barros (1901–1969), mayor of São Paulo and Governor of São Paulo * Adhémar Raynault (died 1984), politician * Adhemar da Silva (died 2001), athlete * Adhemar Pimenta (fl. 1942), sports manager * Adhemar de Chaunac (fl. 1961), vintner * Adhemar (footballer, born 1972), Adhemar Ferreira de Camargo Neto, Brazilian football for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Émile-de-Suffolk, Quebec
Saint-Émile-de-Suffolk is a municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Papineau Regional County Municipality. Until 1994 it was known as United Township Municipality of Suffolk-et-Addington. This farming community, north of Montebello, is often visited by cottage vacationers for hunting and fishing in the numerous lakes of the area. Geography The area is characterized by rugged terrain of the Laurentian Mountains, marked here and there by mountains that rise more than above sea level. Its principal streams are the Little Rouge River and the Suffolk Creek that feeds it, the first being a tributary of the Petite-Nation River. History Suffolk Township (named after the county in England) was already on the Gale and Duberger map of 1795, but not officially established until 1874. Municipally it was part of the United Township Municipality of Hartwell-et-Suffolk until 1880 when the municipality separated and the Township Municipality of Suffolk was forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Addington (canton)
Addington may refer to: Places In Australia: * Addington, Victoria In Canada: * Addington County, Ontario (now Lennox and Addington County, Ontario) * Addington Highlands, Ontario * Addington Parish, New Brunswick * Addington (federal electoral district) In England: * Addington, Bradford * Addington, Buckinghamshire * Addington, Cornwall * Addington, Kent ** Addington long barrow an archaeological site nearby * Addington, Lancashire, near Carnforth * Addington, London, site of the following: ** Addington Palace ** Addington Park ** Addington Village tram stop ** Addington Cricket Club * New Addington, site of the following: ** Addington Vale park ** New Addington tram stop * Addington Hills park, in Upper Shirley, formerly part of Addington * Great Addington, Northamptonshire In New Zealand: * Addington, New Zealand In the United States: * Addington Mill, North Carolina * Addington, Oklahoma * Addington, Virginia People * Addington (surname) Other * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adams (canton)
Adams may refer to: * For persons, see Adams (surname) Places United States * Adams, California *Adams, California, former name of Corte Madera, California * Adams, Decatur County, Indiana * Adams, Kentucky * Adams, Massachusetts, a New England town ** Adams (CDP), Massachusetts, the central village in the town * Adams, Minnesota *Adams, North Dakota * Adams, Nebraska *Adams, New Jersey *Adams (town), New York **Adams (village), New York, within the town *Adams, Oklahoma * Adams, Oregon *Adams, Pennsylvania, a former community in Armstrong County * Adams, Tennessee * Adams, Wisconsin, city in Adams County * Adams, Adams County, Wisconsin, town *Adams, Green County, Wisconsin, town *Adams, Jackson County, Wisconsin, town * Adams, Walworth County, Wisconsin, unincorporated community * Adams Center, Wisconsin, a ghost town Elsewhere * Adams (lunar crater) * Adams (Martian crater) * Adams Island, New Zealand, one of the Auckland Islands * Adams, Ilocos Norte Transportation ;Vehicl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montérégie
Montérégie () is an administrative region in the southwest part of Quebec. It includes the cities of Boucherville, Brossard, Châteauguay, Longueuil, Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield and Vaudreuil-Dorion. The region had a population of 1,507,070 as of the 2016 census and a land area of , giving it a population density of 135.4 inhabitants/km2 (350 per sq. mi.). With approximately 18.5% of the province's population, it is the second most populous region of Quebec after Montreal. The majority of the population lives near the Saint Lawrence River, on the south shore of Montreal. Montérégie is known for its vineyards, orchards, panoramas, products, and the Monteregian mountains. The region is both urban (second in terms of population in Quebec) and rural. The regional economy is based on agriculture and the production of goods and services. Tourism also makes up a significant portion of the economy. History Jacques Cartier named Mont Royal in O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acton (canton)
Acton may refer to: Places Antarctica * Mount Acton Australia * Acton, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra * Acton, Tasmania, a suburb of Burnie * Acton Park, Tasmania, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, formerly known as Acton Canada * Acton, Ontario, a community * Acton Island, District of Muskoka, Ontario * Acton, New Brunswick * Acton Regional County Municipality, Quebec New Zealand * Acton, New Zealand, a rural community United Kingdom * Acton, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, a hamlet and townland * Acton, Cheshire, a village and civil parish * Acton, Cheshire (ancient parish) * Acton, Dorset, a hamlet * Acton, London, an area of west London ** East Acton ** North Acton ** South Acton, London ** West Acton ** Municipal Borough of Acton, former local government district ** Acton (UK Parliament constituency) * Acton, Northumberland, a hamlet * Acton, Shropshire, a village * Acton, Staffordshire, a hamlet * Acton, Suffolk, a village and civil p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
