Chazel is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in northwestern

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, Canada, in the

Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality (''English: Abitibi West'') is a regional county municipality located in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec. Its seat is La Sarre. Subdivisions There are 23 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Citi ...

. It had a population of 254 in the

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. The municipality was incorporated on February 19, 1938, as the Municipality of Saint-Janvier, and commonly known as Saint-Janvier-de-Chazel. In 1991, it was renamed to Chazel, named after Guillaume Chazel, a French soldier who died in 1725 near Cape Breton.

Demographics

Population

Language

Municipal council

* Mayor: Daniel Favreau * Councillors: Nancy Bureau, Anne Breton, René Frappier, Armande Bouchard, Hélène Lévesque-Charrois, Yves Frappier

Political representation

Provincially it is part of the riding of Abitibi-Ouest. In the

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the incumbent MNA Suzanne Blais, of the

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. Federally, Chazel is part of the federal riding of Abitibi—Témiscamingue. In the

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, the incumbent

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of the

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was re-elected to represent the population Chazel in the

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Historical publications

*Saint-Janvier-de-Chazel – Histoire et généalogie et occupation du territoire, published by "Société d'histoire et de généalogie de Val-d'Or", Gisèle Chamberland, 2004, 315 pages.

References

{{authority control Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Abitibi-Témiscamingue Populated places established in 1917