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Turgeon River (rivière Des Hurons)
The Turgeon River is a river flowing through the municipality of the United Townships of Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, located north of the Quebec (city), in the La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, in the provinces and territories of Canada, province from Quebec, to Canada. The upper part of the Turgeon River valley is served by secondary forest roads. The surface of the Turgeon River (except the rapids areas) is generally frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March; however, safe circulation on the ice is generally done from the end of December to the beginning of March. The water level of the river varies with the seasons and the precipitation; the spring flood occurs in March or April. Geography The Turgeon River rises at the mouth of Demers Lake (length: ; altitude: ) located in a forest and mountain area. This small lake has a small marsh area in the northern part. The mouth of this lake is located at ... [...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] |
Capitale-Nationale
Capitale-Nationale (; en, National Capital region) is one of the 17 List of Quebec regions, administrative regions of Quebec. It is anchored by the provincial capital, Quebec City, and is largely coextensive with that city's Communauté métropolitaine de Québec, metropolitan area. It has a land area of 18,797.45 km2. It reported a total resident population of 729,997 as of the Canada 2016 Census, with Quebec City having 73.7 percent of the total. Prior to January 2000, it was known as the Québec administrative region. Administrative divisions Regional county municipalities Equivalent territory Independent parish municipality * Notre-Dame-des-Anges, Quebec, Notre-Dame-des-Anges Native People's Reserve * Wendake, Quebec, Wendake Major communities *Baie-Saint-Paul *Boischatel, Quebec, Boischatel *Donnacona, Quebec, Donnacona *L'Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec, L'Ancienne-Lorette *La Malbaie *Lac-Beauport, Quebec, Lac-Beauport *Pont-Rouge *Quebec City (Quebec City, Ville de ... [...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] |
La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality
La Jacques-Cartier is a regional county municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is in Shannon. It is named after the Jacques-Cartier River which runs through it and takes its source in its upper country. Subdivisions There are 10 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (6) * Fossambault-sur-le-Lac * Lac-Delage * Lac-Saint-Joseph * Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval * Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier * Shannon ;Municipalities (2) * Lac-Beauport * Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier ;United Townships (1) * Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury ;Unorganized Territory (1) * Lac-Croche 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 ** ** * Principal Highways ** * Secondary Highways ** ** ** ** * External Routes ** None See also * List of regional county municipalities and equivalent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury
Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury is a united township municipality (Quebec), united township municipality in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec, located in the regional county municipality of La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality, La Jacques-Cartier north of Quebec City. Its main attraction is the Stoneham Mountain Resort. The large territory of the municipality is only developed and inhabited in the south, where the population centres of Saint-Adolphe, Stoneham, and Tewkesbury are located. Large portions of the north are included in the Jacques-Cartier National Park and the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve. The terrain is hilly, part of the Laurentian Mountains, and crossed by the Jacques-Cartier River, Jacques-Cartier, upper Sainte-Anne River, Sainte-Anne, and Hurons Rivers. Some of the more notable lakes are Beaumont, Saint-Vincent, and Saint-Guillaume. History In 1792, Philip Toosey was granted some of land that formed the beginning of the villa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivière Des Hurons (Saint-Charles Lake)
The rivière des Hurons (''English: Hurons's River'') is a river flowing in the heart of the municipality of Cantons-unis de Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, located north of Quebec (city), in the La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, in province from Quebec, to Canada. This watercourse turns out to be the most important tributary of Saint-Charles Lake which constitutes one of the drinking water reserves of the city of Quebec. The Hurons river valley is mainly served by the Grande-Ligne road (on the northwest shore), the route 175, the Saint-Edmond road, the Talbot boulevard, first Avenue and Lepire Road. The surface of the Huron River (except the rapids areas) is generally frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March; however, safe circulation on the ice is generally done from the end of December to the beginning of March. The water level of the river varies with the seasons and the precipitation; the spring fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Lawrence River
The St. Lawrence River (french: Fleuve Saint-Laurent, ) is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. Its headwaters begin flowing from Lake Ontario in a (roughly) northeasterly direction, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, connecting the American Great Lakes to the North Atlantic Ocean, and forming the primary drainage outflow of the Great Lakes Basin. The river traverses the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, as well as the U.S. state of New York, and demarcates part of the international boundary between Canada and the United States. It also provides the foundation for the commercial St. Lawrence Seaway. Names Originally known by a variety of names by local First Nations, the St. Lawrence became known in French as ''le fleuve Saint-Laurent'' (also spelled ''St-Laurent'') in 1604 by Samuel de Champlain. Opting for the ''grande riviere de sainct Laurens'' and ''fleuve sainct Laurens'' in his writings and on his maps, de Champlain supplanted previous Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec (city)
Quebec City ( or ; french: Ville de Québec), officially Québec (), is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. It is the eleventh -largest city and the seventh -largest metropolitan area in Canada. It is also the second-largest city in the province after Montreal. It has a humid continental climate with warm summers coupled with cold and snowy winters. The Algonquian people had originally named the area , an AlgonquinThe Algonquin language is a distinct language of the Algonquian language family, and is not a misspelling. word meaning "where the river narrows", because the Saint Lawrence River narrows proximate to the promontory of Quebec and its Cape Diamant. Explorer Samuel de Champlain founded a French settlement here in 1608, and adopted the Algonquin name. Quebec City is one of the oldest European cities in North America. The ramparts surrounding O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces And Territories Of Canada
Within the geographical areas of Canada, the ten provinces and three territories are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution. In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada (which upon Confederation was divided into Ontario and Quebec)—united to form a federation, becoming a fully independent country over the next century. Over its history, Canada's international borders have changed several times as it has added territories and provinces, making it the world's second-largest country by area. The major difference between a Canadian province and a territory is that provinces receive their power and authority from the ''Constitution Act, 1867'' (formerly called the ''British North America Act, 1867''), whereas territorial governments are creatures of statute with powers delegated to them by the Parliament of Canada. The powers flowing from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval
Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval is a city in La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. Its urban area is located in the hollow of the Montmorency River valley, northeast of Quebec City. The city is named in honor of Brigid of Kildare as a recall the irish origin of the first settlers. The name Laval comes from the situation of Sainte-Brigitte in the seigneury of Beaupré, whose first owner was François de Laval, bishop of Quebec. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval 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. Mother tongue: * French as first language: 97.1% * English as first language: 0.8% * English and French as first language: 0.8% * Other as first language: 1.0% Government Administration 2022 administration: * Mayor: France For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivière Des Hurons (Saint-Charles Lake)
The rivière des Hurons (''English: Hurons's River'') is a river flowing in the heart of the municipality of Cantons-unis de Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, located north of Quebec (city), in the La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, in province from Quebec, to Canada. This watercourse turns out to be the most important tributary of Saint-Charles Lake which constitutes one of the drinking water reserves of the city of Quebec. The Hurons river valley is mainly served by the Grande-Ligne road (on the northwest shore), the route 175, the Saint-Edmond road, the Talbot boulevard, first Avenue and Lepire Road. The surface of the Huron River (except the rapids areas) is generally frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March; however, safe circulation on the ice is generally done from the end of December to the beginning of March. The water level of the river varies with the seasons and the precipitation; the spring fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Charles River (Quebec City)
The Saint-Charles River (Huron-Wendat name is ''Akiawenrahk'') is the main watercourse crossing Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The surface of the Saint-Charles River (except the rapids areas) is generally frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March; however, safe circulation on the ice is generally done from the end of December to the beginning of March. The water level of the river varies with the seasons and the precipitation; the spring flood occurs in March or April. Geography It springs from Saint-Charles Lake, follows a course of approximately and ends into Saint Lawrence River. Its drainage basin is large and a population of 350,000 persons live on its shores, in Quebec City and the Regional County Municipality of La Jacques-Cartier. It is the most densely populated drainage basin of any Quebec river, with an average population density of 600 inhabitants per square kilometer, mostly concentrated in the last third of its length. This makes its banks a popular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
