Marmier township is located in the municipalities of

Lac-aux-Sables Lac-aux-Sables is a parish municipality in the Mékinac Regional County Municipality (MRC de Mékinac), in administrative district of the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada. Its population centres are Lac-aux-Sables and Hervey ...

and Notre-Dame-de-Montauban, in the Mekinac Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of

Mauricie Mauricie () is a traditional and current administrative region of Quebec. La Mauricie National Park is contained within the region, making it a prime tourist location. The region has a land area of 35,860.05 km² (13,845.64 sq mi) and a popu ...

, on the north shore of

Saint Lawrence River The St. Lawrence River (french: Fleuve Saint-Laurent, ) is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. Its headwaters begin flowing from Lake Ontario in a (roughly) northeasterly direction, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, connectin ...

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. In Quebec, a "canton" (township in English) is a historic cadastral division of the territory to facilitate the grant of public lands to individuals for colonization.

Geography

Township Marmier is located east of the

Lejeune Township The Lejeune Township (french: Canton Lejeune) is located in the MRC Mekinac Regional County Municipality, in Mauricie, Quebec, Canada. Geography Located south of Mekinac Township and west of Marmier Township, Lejeune township straddles two munic ...

and north-west of the

Batiscan River The Batiscan River is located in La Mauricie administrative region, in the Quebec province, Canada. This river flows from Lake Édouard in Mauricie south and west to empty into the St. Lawrence River at Batiscan, Quebec, northeast of Trois-Rivi ...

. Its territory includes the

Zec Tawachiche The zec Tawachiche is a ''zone d'exploitation contrôlée'' (controlled harvesting zone) (zec) covering 318 km², of which 310 km² are located in Mékinac Regional County Municipality, in Mauricie, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. ...

. The

Tawachiche River TheTawachiche River flows from north to south for entirely in the territory of the Municipality of Lac-aux-Sables, in Mékinac Regional County Municipality, in Mauricie, in the province of Quebec, Canada. Geography The Tawachiche River waters ...

and Tawachiche West River flow entirely within the Marmier township. The lakes of the Marmier township are: Germain, "du Midi", Hackett, Fontaine, Price, Bégin, du Milieu, Boiteau, Buffon, Profond et Terrien. The Railway of

Canadian National Railway The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN i ...

linking Hervey-Jonction to

La Tuque La Tuque (; ) is a city located in north-central Quebec, Canada, on the Saint-Maurice River, between Trois-Rivières and Chambord. The population was 11,227 at the Canada 2011 Census, most of which live within the urban area. At over 28,000 sq ...

pass through the township Marmier, between Audy station and Lac-Masketsi station.

Toponymy

The names "Marmier township" and

were announced simultaneously on September 4, 1892. Marmier township was formalized in the register of place names of the

Commission de toponymie du Québec The Commission de toponymie du Québec (English: ''Toponymy Commission of Québec'') is the Government of Québec's public body responsible for cataloging, preserving, making official and publicize Québec's place names and their origins according ...

(Geographical Names Board of Québec), on December 5, 1968. The name "Marmier township" originated in honor of a French prolific writer Xavier Marmier (1809-1892), originally from

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(east of France), in the Doubs. Following the publication of several books chronicling his travels in

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and

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, this writer lived in 1849 in Lower Canada, particularly in

and

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian ...

, and then in

Upper Canada The Province of Upper Canada (french: link=no, province du Haut-Canada) was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the ...

. After publishing his "Letters on America" in 1852 in

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, the writer published the novel "The Betrothed Spitzbergen" (1858). Marmier was elected to the

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in 1870.

(Geographical Names Board of Québec), records of the names and places of Quebec, the work of the Geographical Names Board published in 1994 and 1996 as an illustrated dictionary printed and under a CDROM made by Micro-Intel in 1997 from this dictionary.

References

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Geography

Toponymy

See also

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