La Nouvelle-Beauce (, ''New Beauce'') is a
regional county municipality
The term regional county municipality or RCM (, , MRC) is used in Quebec, Canada to refer to one of 87 county-like political entities. In some older English translations they were called county regional municipality.
Regional county municipalit ...
in the
Chaudière-Appalaches
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region in southeastern
Quebec
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, Canada, south of the
Saint Lawrence River
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. It is located south of
Lévis
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, along the
Chaudière River
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.
Established in 1982 as a successor to
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* Dorchester County, South Carolina
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, La Nouvelle-Beauce is made of 11 municipalities and is mainly
French-speaking
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(99.2% French-speaking in 2006) and rural.
Sainte-Marie, the county seat, is the most populous municipality.
The name of La Nouvelle-Beauce reminds the one given to the area along the Chaudière River by the
French
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authorities until the end of the
French Regime
French may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to France
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in
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.
Subdivisions
There are 11 subdivisions within the RCM:
;Cities & Towns (1)
*
Sainte-Marie
;Municipalities (7)
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Frampton
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Saint-Bernard
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Saint-Elzéar
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Saint-Isidore
*
Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon
Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon () is a municipality in La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 6,177 as of the Canada 2011 Census. Prior to June 22, 2013 it ...
*
Saints-Anges
*
Scott
Scott may refer to:
Places
Canada
* Scott, Quebec, municipality in the Nouvelle-Beauce regional municipality in Quebec
* Scott, Saskatchewan, a town in the Rural Municipality of Tramping Lake No. 380
* Rural Municipality of Scott No. 98, Sas ...
*
Vallée-Jonction
;Parishes (3)
*
Sainte-Hénédine
*
Sainte-Marguerite
Transportation
Access Routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:
Official Transport Quebec Road Map
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* Autoroutes
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* Principal Highways
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* Secondary Highways
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* External Routes
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See also
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* Beauce, Quebec
Beauce (; ) is a historical and traditional region of Quebec, Canada, located south of Quebec City. Most of it is part of the administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches. It corresponds approximately to the regional county municipalities of ...
References
External links
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La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality
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Regional county municipalities in Chaudière-Appalaches
Census divisions of Quebec
Sainte-Marie, Quebec