Montcalm 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
Lanaudière
Lanaudière (, ) is one of the seventeen administrative regions of Quebec, Canada, situated immediately to the northeast of Montreal. It has a total population ( 2016 Census) of 494,796 inhabitants, an increase of 4.9% over the 2011 census.
Geog ...
region of
Quebec
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,
Canada
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. Its seat is
Sainte-Julienne.
The population according to the
2021 Canadian Census
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sl ...
was 58,680
Subdivisions
There are 10 subdivisions within the RCM:
;Cities & Towns (1)
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Saint-Lin–Laurentides
Saint-Lin–Laurentides is a small city located in the Montcalm Regional County Municipality of Quebec, Canada. Its official name uses an en dash; however, the city's own website uses the two-hyphen version of its name: Saint-Lin–Laurentides. ...
;Municipalities (9)
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Saint-Alexis
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Saint-Calixte
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Saint-Esprit
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Saint-Jacques
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Sainte-Julienne
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Saint-Liguori
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Sainte-Marie-Salomé
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Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan
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Saint-Roch-Ouest
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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* Secondary Highways
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* External Routes
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See also
* List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec
References
External links
MRC Montcalm
Regional county municipalities in Lanaudière
Census divisions of Quebec
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