D'Autray 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
Lanaudière
Lanaudière (, ) is one of the seventeen administrative regions of Quebec, Canada, situated immediately to the northeast of Montreal. It has a total population ( 2016 Census) of 494,796 inhabitants, an increase of 4.9% over the 2011 census.
Geog ...
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
Berthierville
Berthierville ()(also called Berthier-en-haut, and legally called Berthier before 1942) is a town located between Montreal and Trois-Rivières on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. Berthierville is the seat of D'Autray ...
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The municipality has a land area of 1,249.30 km
2 and its population was 42,189 inhabitants as of the
2016 Census.
Its largest community is the city of
Lavaltrie.
Subdivisions
There are 15 subdivisions within the RCM:
;Cities & Towns (3)
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Berthierville
Berthierville ()(also called Berthier-en-haut, and legally called Berthier before 1942) is a town located between Montreal and Trois-Rivières on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. Berthierville is the seat of D'Autray ...
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Lavaltrie
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Saint-Gabriel
;Municipalities (9)
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La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas
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Lanoraie
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Mandeville
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Saint-Cléophas-de-Brandon
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Saint-Cuthbert
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Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon
Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon is a municipality (Quebec), municipality in the D'Autray Regional County Municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada.
History
The first settlers, mostly Irish and Scottish Loyalists, came around 1825 to the ...
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Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola
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Sainte-Élisabeth
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Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier
;Parishes (3)
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Saint-Barthélemy
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Saint-Didace
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Saint-Norbert
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:
Official Transport Quebec Road Map
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* External Routes
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See also
* List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec
References
External links
MRC d'Autray
Regional county municipalities in Lanaudière
Census divisions of Quebec
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