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The following is a list of the types of
local Local may refer to: Geography and transportation * Local (train), a train serving local traffic demand * Local, Missouri, a community in the United States * Local government, a form of public administration, usually the lowest tier of administrat ...
and supralocal territorial units in
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 ...
, including those used solely for statistical purposes, as defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy and compiled by the
Institut de la statistique du Québec The Institut de la statistique du Québec (or Quebec Statistical Institute in translation) is the governmental statistics agency of Quebec. It is responsible for producing, analyzing, and publishing official statistics to enhance knowledge, discu ...
. Not included are the
urban agglomerations in Quebec An agglomeration, or urban agglomeration, is an administrative division of Quebec at the local level that may group together a number of municipalities which were abolished as independent entities on 1 January 2002 but reconstituted on 1 Januar ...
, which, although they group together multiple municipalities, exercise only what are ordinarily local municipal powers. A list of local municipal units in Quebec by
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 ...
can be found at
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 ...
.


Local municipalities

All municipalities (except cities), whether township, village, parish, or unspecified ones, are functionally and legally identical. The only difference is that the designation might serve to disambiguate between otherwise identically named municipalities, often neighbouring ones. Many such cases have had their names changed, or merged with the identically named nearby municipality since the 1950s, such as the former Township of Granby and City of Granby merging and becoming the Town of Granby in 2007. Municipalities are governed primarily by the ''Code municipal du Québec'' (Municipal Code of Québec, R.S.Q. c. C-27.1), whereas cities and towns are governed by the ''Loi sur les cités et villes'' (Cities and Towns Act, R.S.Q. c. C-19) as well as (in the case of the older ones) various individual charters. The very largest communities in Quebec are colloquially called cities; however there are currently no municipalities under the province's current legal system classified as cities. Quebec's government uses the English term ''town'' as the translation for the French term ''ville'', and ''township'' for ''canton''. The least-populated towns in Quebec ( Barkmere, with a population of about 60, or
L'Île-Dorval L'Île-Dorval () is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is coterminous with Dorval Island (french: Île Dorval), an island in Lake Saint-Louis off the Island of Montreal. It lies a short distance offshore from the city of Dorval and is conn ...
, with less than 10) are much smaller than the most populous municipalities of other types (
Saint-Charles-Borromée Saint-Charles-Borromée, Quebec ( 2021 Population 15,285) is a city in southwest-central Quebec, Canada, on the l'Assomption River. In Joliette Regional County Municipality, Saint-Charles-Borromée has the Maison Antoine-Lacombe, a heritage hom ...
and
Sainte-Sophie Sainte-Sophie is a municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, part of the La Rivière-du-Nord Regional County Municipality. History The new Municipality of Sainte-Sophie was created on May 2, 2000, when the old Municipality of S ...
, each with populations of over 13,300). The title city (french: cité code=C) still legally exists, with a few minor differences from that of ''ville''. However it is moot since there are no longer any cities in existence.
Dorval Dorval () is an on-island suburban city on the island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. In 2016, the Canadian Census indicated that the population increased by 4.2% to 18,980. Although the city has the largest surface area in Montré ...
and
Côte Saint-Luc Côte Saint-Luc (; also spelled Côte-Saint-Luc, and known historically in English as Cote St. Luke) is a city on the island of Montreal in Quebec, Canada. Geography Along with Hampstead and Montreal West, Côte Saint-Luc forms an enclave with ...
had the status of city when they were amalgamated into
Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian ...
on January 1, 2002 as part of the
municipal reorganization in Quebec 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 ...
; however, when re-constituted as independent municipalities on January 1, 2006, it was with the status of town (french: ville) (although the municipal government of Dorval still uses the name Cité de Dorval). Prior to January 1, 1995, the code for municipalité was not M but rather SD (''sans désignation''; that is, unqualified municipality).


Aboriginal local municipal units

Prior to 2004, there was a single code, TR, to cover the modern-day TC and TK. When the distinction between TC and TK was introduced, it was made retroactive to 1984, date of the federal Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act (S.C. 1984, c. 18).


Territories equivalent to local municipalities


Submunicipal units

There is also a different kind of submunicipal unit, unconstituted localities, which is defined and tracked not by the Quebec Ministry of Municipal Affairs but by
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.


Supralocal units


See also

*
Administrative divisions of Quebec The province of Quebec is divided into entities that deliver local government, along with other types of functional divisions. Local municipalities The primary level of local organization is the local municipality. This general term include ...


References


Notes


External links

; Quebec provincial legislation
An Act respecting municipal territorial organization
(also i


An Act respecting Northern villages and the Kativik Regional Government
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The Cree Villages and the Naskapi Village Act
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(also in ttp://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch/telecharge.php?type=2&file=/R_13_1/R13_1.html French ; Federal legislation
Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act (S.C. 1984, c. 18)
(also i
French
; Other
Répertoire des municipalités
(look up the entry for any municipality)
Liste complète des types d'entités et leurs définitions
(''Commission de toponymie'') {{Subdivisions of Quebec Local government in Quebec Types of populated places