Mansfield-et-Pontefract is a municipality in the

Pontiac Regional County Municipality Pontiac (french: municipalité régionale de comté de Pontiac) is a regional county municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. Campbell's Bay is the county seat. It should not be confused with the municipality of Pontiac, which is ...

of western

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, Canada. It is located on the

Ottawa River The Ottawa River (french: Rivière des Outaouais, Algonquin: ''Kichi-Sìbì/Kitchissippi'') is a river in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. It is named after the Algonquin word 'to trade', as it was the major trade route of Eastern ...

, northwest of

Gatineau Gatineau ( ; ) is a city in western Quebec, Canada. It is located on the northern bank of the Ottawa River, immediately across from Ottawa, Ontario. Gatineau is the largest city in the Outaouais administrative region and is part of Canada's N ...

. It is the most populated municipality in the Pontiac Regional County Municipality, with most of the population and businesses concentrated along

Quebec Route 148 Route 148 is an east-west highway in Quebec, Canada. It runs from junction of Autoroute 13 and Autoroute 440 in Laval in the Montreal region to the Ontario-Quebec border in L'Isle-aux-Allumettes in western Quebec. For most of its length, Route ...

. It is home to the main tourist attractions of the Pontiac region: the Chutes Coulonge, the George Bryson House, and the

Félix-Gabriel-Marchand Bridge Félix-Gabriel-Marchand Bridge is a covered bridge in the Township of Mansfield-et-Pontefract, Quebec, Canada, that crosses the Coulonge River near Fort-Coulonge. Constructed in 1898, this 148.66-metre-long bridge is the longest covered bridg ...

Communities

*Davidson *Dépôt Davidson *Devonshire Park *Jim Lake *Leclair *Mansfield

History

In 1849, the Mansfield Township was formed that was incorporated as a township municipality in 1855. It may have been named after an English town in Nottinghamshire or in honour of Sir

James Mansfield Sir James Mansfield, (originally Manfield; 1734 – 23 November 1821) was a British lawyer, judge and politician. He was twice Solicitor General and served as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1799 to 1814. Early life and career The son ...

(1733-1821), Solicitor General of Canada in 1780, or

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, PC, SL (2 March 170520 March 1793) was a British barrister, politician and judge noted for his reform of English law. Born to Scottish nobility, he was educated in Perth, Scotland, before moving to Lond ...

(1705–1793). In 1863, Pontefract Township was officially established, named after an English town in Yorkshire. On January 1, 1868, the townships were merged to form the United Township Municipality of Mansfield-et-Pontefract. In 1888, a portion of its territory separated and was incorporated as the Village Municipality of

Fort-Coulonge Fort Coulonge is a village in the Pontiac Regional County Municipality in western Quebec, Canada, at the mouth of the Coulonge River. It is the francophone centre of the otherwise largely (57%) anglophone Pontiac MRC, with 79.6% listing French a ...

. In 2003, Mansfield-et-Pontefract changed its status from

united township municipality The following is a list of the types of local and supralocal territorial units in Quebec, including those used solely for statistical purposes, as defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy and compiled by the Insti ...

to an ordinary municipality.

Demographics

Population

Language

Mother tongue (2021): * English as first language: 17.8% * French as first language: 77.6% * English and French as first language: 4.1% * Other as first language: 0.5%

References

External links

Official site

Chutes Coulonges
{{authority control Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Outaouais