Kataskomiq is an
Indian reserve
In Canada, an Indian reserve (french: réserve indienne) is specified by the '' Indian Act'' as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty,
that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band."
Ind ...
listed by the
Canadian Geographical Names Database.
The reserve belongs to the
Wolastoqiyik Wahsipekuk (Viger) First Nation,
Maliseet
The Wəlastəkwewiyik, or Maliseet (, also spelled Malecite), are an Algonquian-speaking First Nation of the Wabanaki Confederacy. They are the indigenous people of the Wolastoq ( Saint John River) valley and its tributaries. Their territory ...
people. It is not listed by
Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
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*Indigenous peoples
*Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention
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or the last two Canadian census.
[ It is located in the ]Bas-Saint-Laurent
The Bas-Saint-Laurent (Lower Saint-Lawrence), is an administrative region of Quebec located along the south shore of the lower Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The river widens at this place, later becoming a bay that discharges into the Atlanti ...
region of Quebec
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, geographically located within the territory of Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality
Rivière-du-Loup is a regional county municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. Its most important city is Rivière-du-Loup, which contains more than half of the population.
Major industries include pulp and paper, other wo ...
but is not legally part of it. Its population was 0 in the 2006 Canadian census and does not appear in either the 2011
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or 2016 Canadian Census
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.[https://toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/pdf/modifications_municipalites.pdf ]
See also
List of Indian reserves in Quebec
The following is a list of Native reserves in Quebec, Canada. It includes only the reserves that are officially designated as Indian reserve and fall under the jurisdiction of the Canadian government's Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. Th ...
References
External links
Native nations communities of Québec
(Secrétariat aux affaires autochtones du Québec)
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Indian reserves in Quebec