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 can be found at
List of municipalities in Quebec.
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 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 second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple ...
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 g ...
; 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
Statistics Canada.
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(also i
The Cree Villages and the Naskapi Village Act(also i
(also i
(also i
(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