La Nouvelle-Beauce (''New Beauce'') 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
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 ...
region in southeastern
Quebec
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, Canada, south of the
Saint Lawrence River
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. It is located south of
Lévis, along the
Chaudière River
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.
Established in 1982 as a successor to
Dorchester County Dorchester County is the name of two counties in the United States:
* Dorchester County, Maryland
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, La Nouvelle-Beauce is made of 11 municipalities and is mainly
French-speaking
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(99.2% French-speaking in 2006) and rural.
Sainte-Marie, the county seat, is the most populous municipality.
The name of La Nouvelle-Beauce reminds the one given to the area along the Chaudière River by the
French authorities until the end of the
French Regime in
North America
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.
Subdivisions
There are 11 subdivisions within the RCM:
;Cities & Towns (1)
*
Sainte-Marie
;Municipalities (7)
*
Frampton
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Saint-Bernard
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Saint-Elzéar
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Saint-Isidore
*
Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon
Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon is a municipality in La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 6,177 as of the Canada 2011 Census. Prior to June 22, 2013 i ...
*
Saints-Anges
*
Scott
*
Vallée-Jonction
;Parishes (3)
*
Sainte-Hénédine
*
Sainte-Marguerite
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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* Principal Highways
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* Secondary Highways
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* External Routes
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See also
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* Beauce, Quebec
Beauce (; ) is a List of Quebec regions#Historical and Traditional, historical and traditional region of Quebec located south of Quebec City. It corresponds approximately to the Regional county municipality, regional county municipalities of Beauc ...
References
External links
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La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality
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Regional county municipalities in Chaudière-Appalaches
Census divisions of Quebec
Sainte-Marie, Quebec