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Quebec Route 226
Route 226 is a two-lane east/west highway in Quebec, Canada. Its western terminus is at the junction of Route 132 in Pierreville and its eastern terminus is in Sainte-Croix at the junction of Route 271. Route 226 is an exclusively rural highway going through very small villages in the Chaudière-Appalaches and mostly in the Centre-du-Québec regions. The biggest village along the way is Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière, with 1,200 people. Municipalities along Route 226 * Pierreville * Saint-Elphège * La-Visitation-de-Yamaska * Sainte-Monique * Grand-Saint-Esprit * Saint-Célestin (municipality) * Saint-Célestin (village) * Bécancour * Sainte-Marie-de-Blandford * Sainte-Sophie-de-Lévrard * Fortierville * Parisville * Leclercville * Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière * Sainte-Croix File:Sainte-Gertrude, Québec 04.jpg, Route 226 in Sainte-Gertrude. File:Rivière Nicolet Sainte-Monique.JPG, Bridge over Nicolet River in Sainte-Monique. File:Sainte-Marie-de-Blandfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transports Québec
Le ministère des Transports du Québec ( en, Ministry of Transportation of Quebec), known by its short form name Transports Québec, is a Quebec government ministry responsible for transport, infrastructure and law in Quebec, Canada. Since 2022, the Minister for Transport is Geneviève Guilbault. Role and responsibilities The ministry is responsible for: * Registration of all vehicles * Driver licensing * Driver examination centres * Provincial highways in the province * Maintenance of roads and bridges Ministers for Transports Québec * Yvon Marcoux April 29, 2003 – February 18, 2005, QLP * Michel Després February 18, 2005 – December 18, 2008, QLP * Julie Boulet December 18, 2008 – August 11, 2010, QLP * Sam Hamad August 11, 2010 – September 7, 2011, QLP * Pierre Moreau September 7, 2011 – September 4, 2012, QLP * Sylvain Gaudreault September 4, 2012 – April 23, 2014, PQ * Robert Poëti April 23, 2014 – January 28, 2016, QLP * Jacques Daoust January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bécancour, Quebec
Bécancour () is a city in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, Canada; it is the seat of the Bécancour Regional County Municipality. It is located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River at the confluence of the Bécancour River, opposite Trois-Rivières. Wôlinak, an Abenaki Indian reserve, is an enclave within the town of Bécancour. They arrived from Norridgewock, Maine (formerly Acadia) in the aftermath of Father Rale's War. There was a small migration of Acadians to the village (1759), after the British began the Expulsion of the Acadians from the Maritimes. Specifically, the Acadians migrated from present-day New Brunswick to avoid being killed or captured in the St. John River Campaign. Description The town of Bécancour was created October 17, 1965, from an amalgamation of eleven municipalities. Bécancour was one of the province of Quebec's first amalgamated cities. At the time, Bécancour was the largest city in Quebec in terms of land area (as of 2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec Route 265
Route 265 is a two-lane north/south highway on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. Its northern terminus is in Deschaillons-sur-Saint-Laurent at the junction of Route 132, and the southern terminus is at the junction of Route 165 in Plessisville. It used to continue up to Black Lake (now part of Thetford Mines) at the junction of Route 112, but the segment between Plessisville and Black Lake was later re-numbered to Route 165 in the 1990s. Towns along Route 265 * Deschaillons-sur-Saint-Laurent * Parisville * Fortierville * Sainte-Françoise * Villeroy * Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes * Plessisville See also * List of Quebec provincial highways References External links Route 265on Google Maps Provincial Route Map (Courtesy of the Quebec Ministry of Transportation) 265 __NOTOC__ Year 265 ( CCLXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolet River
The Nicolet River (french: Rivière Nicolet) is a river in Quebec, Canada. It is a tributary of the Saint Lawrence River on its southern shore and flows into Lake Saint Pierre. It is named in honor of the pioneer Jean Nicolet. It has several tributaries including the River Bulstrode and the Nicolet River Southwest. Its watershed is mainly in the Centre-du-Québec region although the Southwest Nicolet rises in Estrie. The city of Nicolet is near its mouth on the lake Saint-Pierre which is crossed to the northwest by the St. Lawrence River. Geography Hydrology The Nicolet River begins its course from at an altitude of approximately in lake Nicolet, at Saints-Martyrs-Canadiens. It then flows in a northwesterly direction to Nicolet where it flows into lac Saint-Pierre. Its watershed has an area of . Its modulus is . Its main tributaries are, from upstream to downstream, the rivers des Vases, des Pins, des Rosiers, Bulstrode and Nicolet Southwest. The latter, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière, Quebec
Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière is a parish municipality in the Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population is 1,248 as of the Canada 2011 Census. It is named after Édouard Faucher, founder and first priest of the parish, and René-Louis Chartier de Lotbinière, first owner of the '' seigneurie'' in which Saint-Édouard lay. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ... conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière 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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint-Edouard-De-Lotbiniere Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leclercville, Quebec
Leclercville is a municipality located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in the Lotbinière Regional County Municipality, Municipalité régionale de comté de Lotbinière in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 477 as of 2011. History It is named after Pierre Leclerc, a settler who gave a large portion of his land for the construction of the church, the rector and their dependencies. The municipality's recent constitution dates from 2000 and follows the amalgamation of the village of Leclercville with the parish of Sainte-Emmélie, but both communities had been settled since the beginning of the 18th century, and most considerably at the end of the 19th century. References External links *Commission de toponymie du Québec [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parisville, Quebec
Parisville is a parish municipality in the Centre-du-Québec region of the province of Quebec in Canada. Despite being a parish municipality rather than an ordinary municipality, its website refers to it as simply "''Municipalité de Parisville''" rather than "''municipalité de paroisse de Parisville''". Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Parisville 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. See also *List of parish municipalities in Quebec This is a list of municipalities that have the Quebec municipal type of parish municipality (''paroisse'', code=P), an administrative division defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy. The '' Commission de toponym ... References External links * Parish municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Centre-du-Québec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortierville, Quebec
Fortierville is a municipality (Quebec), municipality in the Centre-du-Québec Quebec region, region of the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec in Canada. See also *List of municipalities in Quebec References External links * Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Centre-du-Québec Designated places in Quebec Canada geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Quebec-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sainte-Sophie-de-Lévrard, Quebec
Sainte-Sophie-de-Lévrard is a parish municipality in the Centre-du-Québec region of the province of Quebec in Canada. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sainte-Sophie-de-Lévrard 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. See also *List of parish municipalities in Quebec This is a list of municipalities that have the Quebec municipal type of parish municipality (''paroisse'', code=P), an administrative division defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy. The '' Commission de toponym ... References External links * Parish municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Centre-du-Québec Canada geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Quebec-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sainte-Marie-de-Blandford, Quebec
Sainte-Marie-de-Blandford is a municipality in the Centre-du-Québec region of the province of Quebec in Canada. It is an area of 69.36 sq ft, and a low population density 6.7 people per sq kilometer as of data recorded in 2016 (more than the overall population density of Quebec which was recorded as 6.0 in 2016). As of 2011, the population was 466 which rose to 468 in 2016. The majority of the population consists of residents 15 through 65, with a relatively balanced proportion of men to women with men taking the lead. 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 External links * Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Centre-du-Québec {{Quebec-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Célestin, Quebec (village)
Saint-Célestin is a village municipality in the Centre-du-Québec region of the province of Quebec in Canada. It is enclaved within the municipality that is also called Saint-Célestin. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Célestin 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, 2016 census Notable residents * Louis Bourgeois (1856–1930), architect and designer of the Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois, was born in Saint-Célestin-de-Nicolet, Quebec on March 19, 1856. See also *List of village municipalities in Quebec This is the list of communities in Quebec that have the legal status of village municipalities (''village'', code=VL) as defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy. This does no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
