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Rimouski
Rimouski ( ; ) is a city in Quebec, Canada. Rimouski is located in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region, at the mouth of the Rimouski River. It has a population of 48,935 (as of 2021). Rimouski, whose motto is ''Legi patrum fidelis'' (Faithful to the law of our fathers), is located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence Estuary, around 300 km downstream of Quebec City. It is the site of Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), the Cégep de Rimouski (which includes the Institut maritime du Québec) and the Music Conservatory. It is also the home of some ocean sciences research centres ( see below). History The name Rimouski most likely derived from a Micmac word meaning "land of the moose". The city was founded by Sir René Lepage de Ste-Claire in 1696. Originally from Ouanne in the Burgundy region, he exchanged property he owned on the Île d'Orléans with Augustin Rouer de la Cardonnière for the Seigneurie of Rimouski, which extended along the St. Lawrence River fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Atlantic Ocean and is often nicknamed ''"Bas-du-Fleuve"'' (Lower-River). The region is formed by eight regional county municipality, regional county municipalities and 114 types of municipalities in Quebec, municipalities. In the south, it borders Maine of the United States, and the Canadian New Brunswick and the regions of Chaudière-Appalaches and Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine. It had a population of 199,039 and a land area of as of the 2021 Canadian census, 2021 census. The territory has evidence of human occupation since the Pleistocene by successive indigenous peoples. The historic First Nations in Canada, First Nations occupied it all until European colonisation started in the late 17th century; France made land concessions to settl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rimouski River
Rimouski River is a river emptying at Rimouski, on the South shore of St. Lawrence River, in the Rimouski-Neigette Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Bas-Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada. From the border between New Brunswick and Quebec, the Rimouski River crosses over the unorganized territory of Lac-Huron, Quebec, as well as the municipalities of La Trinité-des-Monts, Saint-Narcisse-de-Rimouski, Quebec, Saint-Narcisse-de-Rimouski, Saint-Valérien, Quebec, Saint-Valérien, Rimouski, Sainte-Odile-sur-Rimouski and the city of Rimouski. Geography Course The Rimouski River has its source at an altitude of from the Miller Lake (length: ) located in Saint-Quentin Parish, New Brunswick, Saint-Quentin Parish, Restigouche County, New Brunswick, in the Notre Dame Mountains. The mouth of the Miller Lake is located Southeast of coastal Southeastern of St. Lawrence River and East of the border of Quebec. The Rimouski River flows over . Upper Rimouski river co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Université Du Québec à Rimouski
The Université du Québec à Rimouski (; commonly referred to as UQAR) is a public university located in Rimouski, Quebec, Canada, with a campus in Lévis. Since its establishment in 1969, Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR) has granted over 50,000 diplomas. In addition to its Lévis and Rimouski campuses, UQAR offers academic training throughout eastern Quebec, including the Chaudière-Appalaches, Gaspésie-Iles-de-la-Madeleine, Haute-Côte-Nord, and Manicouagan. It also has permanent offices in Gaspé and Rivière-du-Loup. UQAR is part of the Université du Québec network, the largest university network in Canada, with over 100,000 students. UQAR accepts about 7,000 new students every year, including about 550 foreign students from over 45 countries. UQAR has strength in marine science, regional development, and Nordic studies. The university's athletics teams are known as the ''Nordet'', a French word used to refer to a northeasterly wind (and a reference to UQAR's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rimouski—La Matapédia
Rimouski—La Matapédia (formerly known as Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques and Rimouski—Témiscouata) is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004. Geography This eastern Quebec riding includes the regional county municipalities of Rimouski-Neigette, Les Basques and Témiscouata, in the Quebec region of Bas-Saint-Laurent. The neighbouring ridings are Côte-du-Sud—Rivière-du-Loup—Kataskomiq—Témiscouata, Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Listuguj, and Madawaska—Restigouche. History Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques was created in 2003 as "Rimouski—Témiscouata" from parts of Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup—Témiscouata—Les Basques and Rimouski-Neigette-et-La Mitis ridings. The district was given its present name in 2004. Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques was a safe seat for Bloc Québécois until 2011, when New Democrat Guy Caron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rimouski-Neigette Regional County Municipality
Rimouski-Neigette () is a regional county municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. The county seat is in Rimouski. Subdivisions There are 10 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (1) * Rimouski ;Municipalities (1) * Esprit-Saint ;Parishes (7) * La Trinité-des-Monts * Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard * Saint-Eugène-de-Ladrière * Saint-Fabien * Saint-Marcellin * Saint-Narcisse-de-Rimouski * Saint-Valérien ;Unorganized Territory (1) * Lac-Huron Demographics Population Language Transportation Access Routes Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border: *Autoroutes ** *Principal Highways ** *Secondary Highways ** ** *External Routes **None See also * List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec This is a list of the regional county municipalities (RCM or MRC) and equivalent territories (TE) in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Caron
Guy Caron (born May 13, 1968) is a Canadian politician, who was elected the mayor of Rimouski, Quebec in the 2021 Quebec municipal elections. He was previously a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 2011 to 2019, and served as the federal House leader of the New Democratic Party from 2017 to 2019, substituting for party leader Jagmeet Singh who during this time did not hold a seat. Caron was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 election. He represented the electoral district of Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques as a member of the New Democratic Party (NDP). He was the NDP's critic for Finance and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, but resigned from the NDP's shadow cabinet in February 2017 to pursue leadership of the New Democratic Party of Canada. On October 4, 2017, Jagmeet Singh, the newly elected NDP leader, appointed Caron to serve as the NDP's parliamentary leader. He relinquished this position on February 25, 2019, upon Sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Narcisse-de-Rimouski, Quebec
Saint-Narcisse-de-Rimouski () is a parish municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the Rimouski-Neigette Regional County Municipality. It is part of the Bas-Saint-Laurent region and the population is 1,084 as of 2021. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Narcisse-de-Rimouski had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. See also * Rimouski River * List of parish municipalities in Quebec This is a list of municipalities that have the Quebec municipal type of parish municipality (''paroisse'', code=P), an administrative division defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy. The ''Commission de topony ... References External links Parish municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Bas-Saint-Laurent {{BasSaintLaurent-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rimouski (provincial Electoral District)
Rimouski () is a provincial electoral district in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada, that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably includes the municipalities of Rimouski and Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard. It was created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada). In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Lac-des-Aigles and Biencourt to the newly created Rivière-du-Loup–Témiscouata electoral district. Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly Linguistic demographics *Francophone: 99.3% *Anglophone: 0.5% *Allophone: 0.2% Election results , - , - , Liberal , Raymond Giguère , align="right", 9,424 , align="right", 35.33 , align="right", , - , - , - , - , Liberal , Hélène M� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard, Quebec
Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard () is a parish municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the Rimouski-Neigette Regional County Municipality. History On 8 March 1696, Louis de Buade de Frontenac granted the seigneury of Lessard to Pierre de Lessard and Barbe Fortin. Over the next 200 years, Saint-Anaclet underwent many territorial changes as a result of exchanges and annexations to meet the requirements of the lords of the day. Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard was officially created on May 8, 1859 when territories from Saint-Germain-de-Rimouski and Sainte-Luce were merged to create the new municipality. However, it was not until the following September 14 that the first cadastre was deposited, defining the municipality's first territorial boundaries. On 27 June 1892, the municipality expanded its territory with the annexation of Canton Neigette. On August 7, 1945, a violent fire at the Convent of the Sisters of the Holy Rosary spread and destroyed the village centre. Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Valérien, Quebec
Saint-Valérien () is a parish municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the Rimouski-Neigette Regional County Municipality. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Valérien had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. See also * Rimouski River * List of parish municipalities in Quebec This is a list of municipalities that have the Quebec municipal type of parish municipality (''paroisse'', code=P), an administrative division defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy. The ''Commission de topony ... References External links Parish municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Bas-Saint-Laurent {{BasSaintLaurent-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cégep De Rimouski
The Cégep de Rimouski () is a post-secondary education institution ( cégep: College of General and Professional Education) located in Rimouski, Quebec, Canada. History The college traces its origins to the merger of several institutions which became public ones in 1967, when the Quebec system of CEGEPs was created. Programs Quebec students complete one fewer grade than all other Canadian provinces in total before attending CEGEP, by ending high school in grade 11 instead of grade 12. CEGEPs then prepare students for university or to enter a technical profession. It is also possible to attend a university with a 3-year technical CEGEP diploma. The Province of Quebec awards a Diploma of Collegial Studies for two types of programs: two years of pre-university studies or three years of vocational (technical) studies. The pre-university programs, which take two years to complete, cover the subject matters which roughly correspond to the additional year of high school given elsewh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
