Frontenac County was a

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. It existed between 1912 and the early 1980s. The territory it covered is today divided into the

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of Le Granit in the administrative regions of the

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Beauce-Sartigan Beauce-Sartigan is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. The county seat is Saint-Georges. The Chaudière River flows through it. It shares its eastern border with Maine, United States. The nam ...

Chaudière-Appalaches Chaudière-Appalaches () is an administrative region in Quebec, Canada. It comprises most of what is historically known as the " Beauce" (french: La Beauce; compare with the electoral district of Beauce). It is named for the Chaudière River and ...

. Its capital was the municipality of Lac-Mégantic. The county was created in 1912 from parts of the counties of Compton and Beauce. The county name comes from that of the governor of

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Louis de Buade de Frontenac Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau (; 22 May 162228 November 1698) was a French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France in North America from 1672 to 1682, and again from 1689 to his death in 1698. He established a n ...

. The county was formed in 19 townships. The townships in Compton County were Winslow, Whitton, Marston, Chesham and Clinton. The townships from Beauce County were Price, Lambton, Adstock, Aylmer, Forsyth, Woburn, Dorset Gayhurst, Spalding, Ditchfield, Louise and Risborough as well as parts of Shenley and Marlow.

Municipalities located within the county

Municipalities in Compton County (prior to 1912)

* Frontenac (called the United Counties of Spaulding and Ditchfield until 1959) * Lac-Mégantic (called Mégantic until 1958) * Marston *

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(called Whitton until 1957) * Notre-Dame-des-Bois (called Chesham until 1958) * Piopolis (called Marston-Partie-Sud until 1958) * Sainte-Cécile-de-Whitton * Saint-Romain (called Winslow North until 1962) *

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(called Winslow South until 1973) * Val-Racine (called Saint-Léon-de-Marston until 1957)

Municipalities in Beauce County (prior to 1912)

* Saint-Méthode-de-Frontenac (called Saint-Méthode d'Adstock until 1945, merged with Adstock in 2001) * Lambton * Lac-Mégantic * Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce * Courcelles * Saint-Sébastien * Lac-Drolet (called Saint-Samuel-de-Gayhurst until 1968) * Audet (called Saint-Hubert-de-Spaulding until 1959)Banque de noms de lieux du Québec, entrée ''Audet''
* Saint-Ludger * Saint-Évariste-de-Forsyth * Saint-Robert-Bellarmin *

Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset is a parish municipality in the Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. The municipality is named after Hilary of Poitiers and the county of Dorset in England. ...

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