La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau ''(The Valley of the Gatineau)'' 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 Outaouais region of western

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. The seat is in Gracefield. It was incorporated on January 1, 1983 and was named for its location straddling the

Gatineau River The Gatineau River (french: Rivière Gatineau, ) is a river in western Quebec, Canada, which rises in lakes north of the Baskatong Reservoir and flows south to join the Ottawa River at the city of Gatineau, Quebec. The river is long and drains ...

north of

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. It consists of two cities, fifteen municipalities, and five unorganized territories. The area also has two Algonquin communities,

Rapid Lake Rapid Lake (french: Lac-Rapide) is a First Nations in Canada, First Nation Indian reserve, reserve on the western shore of Cabonga Reservoir in the Outaouais (region), Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. It belongs to the Algonquins of Barriere L ...

in the heart of the La Vérendrye Wildlife Reserve and

Kitigan Zibi Kitigan Zibi (also known as River Desert, and designated as Maniwaki 18 until 1994) is a First Nations reserve of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation, an Algonquin band. It is situated near the confluence of the Désert and Gatineau Rivers ...

. The territory of the Gatineau Valley is bordered by other Outaouais RCMs: to the east by the Antoine-Labelle Regional County Municipality, to the southeast by Papineau RCM, to the south by the Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais RCM and to the west by the Pontiac Regional County Municipality. To the north is

La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality La Vallée-de-l'Or ''(The Golden Valley)'' is a regional county municipality in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region in Northwestern Quebec, Canada. The seat is in Val-d'Or. It is named for its gold deposits in the Harricana River and Bell River va ...

in the

Abitibi-Témiscamingue Abitibi-Témiscamingue () is an List of regions of Quebec, administrative region located in western Québec, Canada, along the border with Ontario. It became part of the province in 1898. It has a land area of and its population was 146,717 peo ...

region. Numerous lakes abound in area, including everything from the small Lac des Pins to 31 Mile Lake. The administrative centre for La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau is north of Kitigan Zibi in

Maniwaki Maniwaki is a town located north of Gatineau and north-west of Montreal, in the province of Quebec, Canada. The town is situated on the Gatineau River, at the crossroads of Quebec Route 105, Route 105 and Quebec Route 107, Route 107, not far south ...

, previously the

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Gatineau County. MRC Vallee-Gatineau

Subdivisions

There are 22 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (2) * Gracefield *

;Municipalities (13) * Blue Sea * Bois-Franc *

Bouchette Bouchette is a municipality in the geographic centre of the La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada, north of Gatineau. Its territory is along the shores of Gatineau River and western Thirty-One Mile Lake. Agricu ...

Cayamant Cayamant is a municipality in La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada. The village of Lac-Cayamant is located at the north end of Lake Cayamant, west of Gracefield, Quebec, Gracefield. It was formerly known as the ...

Déléage Déléage () is a town and municipality in La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada. It is situated on the eastern banks of the Gatineau River opposite Maniwaki. Deleage and Deléage are frequently used alternate sp ...

* Denholm * Egan-Sud *

Grand-Remous Grand-Remous is a town and municipality in La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada. The municipality is south of the Baskatong Reservoir, spanning both sides of the Gatineau River. The town is situated at the interse ...

* Kazabazua * Lac-Sainte-Marie * Messines * Moncerf-Lytton * Sainte-Thérèse-de-la-Gatineau ;Townships (2) * Aumond *

;Unorganized Territory (5) * Cascades-Malignes * Dépôt-Échouani * Lac-Lenôtre * Lac-Moselle *

Lac-Pythonga Lac-Pythonga is an unorganized territory in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. It surrounds Lake Pythonga and is the largest of the five unorganized territories in the La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality La Vallée-de- ...

;First Nation Reserve (2)
*

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
/ref> * Autoroutes ** None * Principal highways ** ** ** * Secondary highways ** None

References

External links

Official website
(in French)
Gatineau Valley Tourism site

{{DEFAULTSORT:La Vallee-De-La-Gatineau Regional county municipalities in Outaouais Census divisions of Quebec

Subdivisions

Transportation

Access routes

See also

References

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