Beauharnois-Salaberry is a
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 r ...
in the
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 of
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 thirtee ...
, Canada. Its seat is
Beauharnois.
History
The RCM was formed by combining the historic counties of
Beauharnois and
Châteauguay
Châteauguay ( , , ) is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, located both on the Chateauguay River and Lac St-Louis, which is a section of the St. Lawrence River. The population of the city of Châteauguay at the 2021 Cen ...
.
Subdivisions
There are 7 subdivisions within the RCM:
;Cities & Towns (2)
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Beauharnois
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Salaberry-de-Valleyfield
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Regional County Municipality of Beauharnois-Salaberry.
The population as of 2019 was 42,410. Situated on Grande-Île, an island in the Saint Lawrence River, it is bordere ...
;Municipalities (4)
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Saint-Étienne-de-Beauharnois
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Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka
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Saint-Urbain-Premier
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Sainte-Martine
;Parishes (1)
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Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague
Demographics
Language
Transportation
Access routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:
Official Transport Quebec Road Map
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* Principal Highways
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* Secondary Highways
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* External Routes
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Attractions
* Beauharnois Canal
The Beauharnois Canal is located in southwestern Quebec, Canada. The canal is part of the Saint Lawrence Seaway.
Located in Beauharnois-Salaberry Regional County Municipality within the cities of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Beauharnois, Saint-L ...
* Beauharnois Hydroelectric Generating Station
The Beauharnois generating station is a run-of-the-river hydroelectric power station along the Saint Lawrence Seaway on the Saint Lawrence River, in Quebec, Canada. The station was built in three phases, and comprises 36 turbines, capable of gene ...
(Melocheville)
* Deux-Rives Ecomuseum (Salaberry-de-Valleyfield)
* Howick Airport (Saint-Étienne-de-Beauharnois)
* Pointe-du-Bruisson Archaeological Park (Melocheville)
* Valleyfield Airport (Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka)
Protected areas:
* Îles-de-Paix National Fauna Reserve
* Îles-de-Saint-Timothée Regional Park
See also
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References
External links
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{{Authority control
Census divisions of Quebec