Basse-Côte-Nord Territory (French: ''Territoire de la Basse-Côte-Nord'', meaning "lower north shore") was a

territory equivalent to a regional county municipality An equivalent territory (french: territoire équivalent), formally known as territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (french: territoires équivalents à une MRC), is a territorial unit used by Statistics Canada and the Institut de la ...

(TE) in eastern

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 ...

, Canada. The territory, whose geographical code was 982, was formed in 2002 when it separated from the

Minganie Regional County Municipality Minganie is a regional county municipality in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. It includes Anticosti Island. Its seat is Havre-Saint-Pierre, Quebec, Havre-Saint-Pierre. It has an area of according to Quebec's ''Ministère des Affaires ...

and was superseded by

Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent is a regional county municipality in the Côte-Nord region of far-eastern Quebec, Canada. It includes all communities along the Gulf of Saint Lawrence between the Natashquan River and the Newfoundland and Labrador border. ...

that was formed in July 2010. Together with Minganie RCM, Basse-Côte-Nord formed the census division of Minganie–Basse-Côte-Nord (now renamed Minganie–Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent), whose geographical code is 98. Basse-Côte-Nord had a land area of and a

2006 census 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

population of 5,505 inhabitants. It included all the communities along the

Gulf of Saint Lawrence , image = Baie de la Tour.jpg , alt = , caption = Gulf of St. Lawrence from Anticosti National Park, Quebec , image_bathymetry = Golfe Saint-Laurent Depths fr.svg , alt_bathymetry = Bathymetry ...

between the

Natashquan River The Natashquan is a river in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador. It flows south into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Geography The river has its source just south of the boundary between the Atlantic and Saint Lawrence ...

and the

Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...

border, but it had no regional administration. Basse-Côte-Nord consisted of the following subdivisions, with their codes in parentheses: * Municipality of

Blanc-Sablon Blanc-Sablon is the easternmost community in Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, in the administrative région of Côte-Nord, in the province of Quebec, Canada. With a population of 1,122 inhabitants in 2021, it is the most p ...

(98005) * Municipality of Bonne-Espérance (98010) * Municipality of

Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent is a municipality (Quebec), municipality in the regional county municipality of Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent in the Côte-Nord Quebec region, region of the ...

(98015) * Municipality of Gros-Mécatina (98014) * Municipality of Saint-Augustin (98012) * Indian reserve of La Romaine (98804) * Indian settlement of

Pakuashipi Pakuashipi (Pakua Shipi, or Pakua Shipu in Innu-aimun and St-Augustin Indian Settlement) is an Innu community in the Canadian province of Quebec, located on the north shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in the Côte-Nord region. It is on the we ...

(98802), located within the legal territory of Saint-Augustin.

References

Minganie--Basse-Côte-Nord Census Division, Quebec
Statistics Canada

External links

Tourism Lower North Shore (English)

Tourisme Basse-Côte-Nord (Français)

Blanc-Sablon Tourism

Local website
The Lower North Shore Community Web Site

database of municipalities
on the website of the Institut de la Statistique du Québec. {{DEFAULTSORT:Basse-Cote-Nord Former territories equivalent to a regional county municipality Côte-Nord States and territories established in 2002 States and territories disestablished in 2010 2002 establishments in Quebec 2010 disestablishments in Quebec Populated places disestablished in 2010 de:Basse-Côte-Nord fr:Basse-Côte-Nord pl:Basse-Côte-Nord