Le Centre-de-la-Mauricie () was a former
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 ...
and
census division
Census divisions, in Canada and the United States, are areas delineated for the purposes of statistical analysis and presentation; they have no government in and of themselves. The census divisions of Canada are second-level census geographic uni ...
in the
Mauricie
Mauricie () is a traditional and current administrative region of Quebec. La Mauricie National Park is contained within the region, making tourism in Mauricie popular. The region has a land area of 35,860.05 km2 (13,845.64 sq mi) and a popu ...
region of
Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...
, Canada.
Subdivisions
Prior to its dissolution, it consisted of:
;''Villes''
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Grand-Mère
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Shawinigan
Shawinigan (; ) is a city located on the Saint-Maurice River in the Mauricie area in Quebec, Canada. It had a population of 49,620 as of the 2021 Canadian census.
Shawinigan is also a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) ...
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Shawinigan-Sud
Shawinigan-Sud is a predominantly French-speaking settlement in the Mauricie area in Quebec, Canada, on the Saint-Maurice River. In 1996, its population was 11,804.
History
Shawinigan-Sud was incorporated as a village in 1912 and was called Alm ...
;Municipalities
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Charette
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Lac-à-la-Tortue
;Parish Municipalities
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Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel
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Saint-Élie
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Saint-Gérard-des-Laurentides
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Saint-Jean-des-Piles
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Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc
;Villages
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Saint-Boniface-de-Shawinigan
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Saint-Georges-de-Champlain
Dissolution
The RCM was dissolved on December 31, 2001, when the municipalities of
Charette,
Saint-Boniface-de-Shawinigan,
Saint-Élie, and
Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc were transferred to the
Maskinongé Regional County Municipality
Maskinongé () is a regional county municipality in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Louiseville. It is located adjacent on the west of Trois-Rivières on the Saint Lawrence River.
The population according to the 2016 Canadian C ...
,
Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel was transferred to the
Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality, and the remaining municipalities were amalgamated into the new
City of Shawinigan.
[Commission Municipale du Québec, ''Rapport au Ministre des Affaires Municipales et de la Métropole, Monsieur André Boisclair, sur les Équipements, Infrastructures, Services et Activités à Caractère Supralocal (Éisa) – Municipalité Régionale de Comté du Centre-de-la-Mauricie'' ()]
See also
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Municipal history of Quebec
The municipal history of Quebec started in 1796 with the creation of administrations for Montréal and Quebec City, but it really developed immediately prior to the creation of the Province of Canada in 1841 with the formation of municipal dist ...
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Le Centre-De-La-Mauricie Regional County Municipality
Former regional county municipalities in Quebec
Populated places disestablished in 2001