Franquelin () is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
in
Quebec
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, Canada, in the administrative region of
Côte-Nord
Côte-Nord (Region 09) (, ; ) is an List of regions of Quebec, administrative region of Quebec, on the Quebec-Labrador peninsula, Quebec-Labrador Peninsula, Canada.
The region runs along the St. Lawrence River and then the Gulf of St. Lawrence, ...
in RCM Manicouagan. Its population is 285 people over 430 square kilometres. Franquelin was founded at the foot of Massifs rocks of the Laurentians where impressive cliffs plunge to the
Gulf of Saint Lawrence
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.
History
The geographic township of Franquelin was created in 1911, and named in honour of
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin, the first official cartographer of
New France
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.
He drew the map of the
St. Lawrence River
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in 1685.
Franquelin came into existence in 1911 thanks to the forest industry. The lumber would be transported to the rivers by horses. From there, it was shipped to paper mills in
Thorold, Ontario
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History
The first surv ...
, and then to
Baie-Comeau
Baie-Comeau () is a city in the Côte-Nord region of the province of Quebec, Canada. It is located on the shores of the St. Lawrence River, and is the seat of Manicouagan Regional County Municipality. It is near the mouth of the Manicouagan Ri ...
starting in 1937. The Ontario Paper Company, owned by Colonel
Robert R. McCormick, which later became the Quebec North Shore Paper Co., needed paper to supply the
Chicago Tribune
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and the
New York Daily News
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, which were also owned by McCormick.
The village was also called Bec-Scie in the past, as well as Baie-des-Cèdres, the name given to the local post office between 1920 and 1928.
On January 1, 1978, the place was incorporated as a municipality when it split off from the United Township Municipality of .
Demographics
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents (2021): 157 (total dwellings: 194)
Mother tongue (2021):
* English as first language: 0%
* French as first language: 98.2%
* English and French as first language: 1.8%
* Other as first language: 0%
See also
*
Franquelin River
*
Rivière Franquelin Branche Ouest, un cours d'eau, un cours d'eau
*
Bouchard River
*
Ma Tante River
*
Thompson River
The Thompson River is the largest tributary of the Fraser River, flowing through the south-central portion of British Columbia, Canada. The Thompson River has two main branches, the South Thompson River and the North Thompson River. The river ...
References
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Incorporated places in Côte-Nord
Municipalities in Quebec