Portneuf is a
regional county municipality (RCM) in the
Capitale-Nationale
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administrative region of
Quebec
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, Canada. RCM of Portneuf has been established on January 1, 1982. It is composed of 21 municipalities: nine cities, seven municipalities, two parishes and three unorganized territories. The county seat is located in
Cap-Santé
Cap-Santé is a town in the Canadian province of Quebec. It is the county seat of Portneuf Regional County Municipality and was as well the county seat of the designated Portneuf County.
The name of the town means "Cape Health". Cap-Santé is ...
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History
The Regional County Municipality of Portneuf was constituted as a regional administrative entity on November 25, 1981, by a Provincial decree creating the supralocal
Regional County Municipality administration based on the (...) and therefore replacing the previously existing historic
Portneuf County Corporation. While the new administrative boundary included most of the communities from its previous historic limits, a few municipalities were merged with bordering entities:
St-Augustin-de-Desmaures,
Sainte-Catherine-de-Portneuf,
Notre-Dame-de-Montauban, Quebec. Those municipalities yet remained within the Electoral Federal Riding of
Portneuf District ''(all but Notre-Dame-de-Mautauban).''
The administrative county seat remained in
Cap-Santé
Cap-Santé is a town in the Canadian province of Quebec. It is the county seat of Portneuf Regional County Municipality and was as well the county seat of the designated Portneuf County.
The name of the town means "Cape Health". Cap-Santé is ...
while moving from the County Corporation building to a newly built one located further east on 185,
Route 138 at a slight distance from the historic village of Cap-Santé.
Subdivisions
There are 21 subdivisions within the RCM:
;Cities & Towns (9)
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Cap-Santé
Cap-Santé is a town in the Canadian province of Quebec. It is the county seat of Portneuf Regional County Municipality and was as well the county seat of the designated Portneuf County.
The name of the town means "Cape Health". Cap-Santé is ...
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Donnacona
Chief Donnacona (died 1539 in France) was the chief of the St. Lawrence Iroquois village of Stadacona, located at the present site of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
French explorer Jacques Cartier, concluding his second voyage to what is now Can ...
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Lac-Sergent
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Neuville
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Pont-Rouge
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Portneuf
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Saint-Basile
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Saint-Marc-des-Carrières
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Saint-Raymond
;Municipalities (7)
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Deschambault-Grondines
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Rivière-à-Pierre
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Saint-Alban
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Saint-Casimir
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Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne
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Saint-Léonard-de-Portneuf
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Saint-Ubalde
;Parishes (2)
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Saint-Gilbert
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Saint-Thuribe
;Unorganized Territory (3)
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Lac-Blanc
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Lac-Lapeyrère
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Linton
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
* Portneuf County, Quebec
Portneuf County is a historic county in Quebec, Canada west of Quebec City on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada.
The county seat was Cap-Santé. Previously named Hampshire County (after Hampshire, England) formed in 1792 at the end of the Frenc ...
References
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