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counties A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...

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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 ...

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, followed by their respective county seats are listed below. The list is sorted in alphabetical order by county name, but can also be sorted in alphabetical order by seat. In terms of internal divisions of counties, there are four types of counties: # those that contain only townships, as is the case with those counties surveyed by the British after 1763; # those that contain only parishes, as is the case with those counties chiefly in the Saint Lawrence Valley settled by French colonists prior to 1761; # those that contain both townships and parishes, and # those that contain townships and undivided lands, as is the case with the northern counties outside the main populated areas of the province. Parishes as a land unit division arise from the elevation of municipalities based on religious parish limits (parish municipalities). Quebec's counties were dissolved in the early 1980s and Quebec was then divided into

regional county municipalities 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 ...

*Abitibi Territory *Mistassini Territory *Nouveau-Quebec Territory

Renamed counties

* Laval County – Former name of Ile-Jésus County. * Jacques Cartier County – Renamed in 1970. Former name of Ile-de-Montréal County. It absorbed Hochelaga County in 1921. * Ottawa County – Former name of Hull County. * Wright County – Renamed to Gatineau County?

External links

*{{cite web, url=http://www.westol.com/~beaurega/map.htm , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321052657/http://www.westol.com/~beaurega/map.htm , archive-date=2009-03-21 , access-date=August 12, 2011 , title= Detailed Ontario Map and Quebec Map of Towns and Counties for Genealogy, circa 1957. * Counties, List of Quebec

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