Frontenac County was a

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. It existed between 1912 and the early 1980s. The territory it covered is today divided into the

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of Le Granit in the

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and

Beauce-Sartigan Beauce-Sartigan is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. The county seat is Saint-Georges. The Chaudière River flows through it. It shares its eastern border with Maine, United States. The ...

Chaudière-Appalaches Chaudière-Appalaches () is an administrative region in Quebec, Canada. It comprises most of what is historically known as the "Beauce" (french: La Beauce; compare with the electoral district of Beauce). It is named for the Chaudière River and ...

. Its capital was the municipality of Lac-Mégantic. The county was created in 1912 from parts of the counties of

Compton Compton may refer to: Places Canada * Compton (electoral district), a former Quebec federal electoral district * Compton (provincial electoral district), a former Quebec provincial electoral district now part of Mégantic-Compton * Compton, Que ...

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Beauce Beauce may refer to: * Beauce, France, a natural region in northern France * Beaucé, a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department, Brittany, France * Beauce, Quebec, an historical and cultural region of Canada ** Beauce (electoral district), a fed ...

. The county name comes from that of the governor of

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Louis de Buade de Frontenac Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau (; 22 May 162228 November 1698) was a French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France in North America from 1672 to 1682, and again from 1689 to his death in 1698. He established a nu ...

. The county was formed in 19 townships. The townships in Compton County were Winslow, Whitton, Marston, Chesham and Clinton. The townships from Beauce County were Price, Lambton, Adstock, Aylmer, Forsyth, Woburn, Dorset Gayhurst, Spalding, Ditchfield, Louise and Risborough as well as parts of Shenley and Marlow.

Municipalities located within the county

Municipalities in Compton County (prior to 1912)

* Frontenac (called the United Counties of Spaulding and Ditchfield until 1959) * Lac-Mégantic (called Mégantic until 1958) * Marston *

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(called Whitton until 1957) * Notre-Dame-des-Bois (called Chesham until 1958) * Piopolis (called Marston-Partie-Sud until 1958) * Sainte-Cécile-de-Whitton * Saint-Romain (called Winslow North until 1962) *

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(called Winslow South until 1973) * Val-Racine (called Saint-Léon-de-Marston until 1957)

Municipalities in Beauce County (prior to 1912)

* Saint-Méthode-de-Frontenac (called Saint-Méthode d'Adstock until 1945, merged with Adstock in 2001) * Lambton * Lac-Mégantic * Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce *

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* Saint-Sébastien * Lac-Drolet (called Saint-Samuel-de-Gayhurst until 1968) * Audet (called Saint-Hubert-de-Spaulding until 1959)Banque de noms de lieux du Québec, entrée ''Audet''
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Saint-Ludger Saint-Ludger is a municipality in the Le Granit Regional County Municipality in Beauce, Quebec, Canada, on the Canada–United States border. Population is 1,074 as of 2021. The municipality of Saint-Ludger was created in 1998 from the amalgamat ...

* Saint-Évariste-de-Forsyth *

Saint-Robert-Bellarmin Saint-Robert-Bellarmin is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté du Granit in Estrie, Quebec, Canada, located on the Canada–United States border. Population is 529 as of 2021. It is also the location of the Saint-Robert-Bel ...

Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset is a parish municipality in the Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. The municipality is named after Hilary of Poitiers and the county of Dorset in England. ...

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