Le Haut-Saint-François (; ''The Upper Saint-François
t. Francis'' 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 southeastern
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 in the
Estrie
Estrie () is an List of Quebec regions, administrative region of Quebec that comprises the Eastern Townships. ''Estrie'', a French neologism, was coined as a derivative of ''est'', "east". Originally settled by anglophones, today it is about 90 pe ...
region. Its seat is in
Cookshire-Eaton, and it is named for the
Saint-François River
The Saint-François River (, ) is a right tributary of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada.
Its source is Lake Saint-François in Chaudière-Appalaches, southeast of Thetford Mines. It flows southwest towards Sherbrooke, where it changes ...
which runs through the RCM.
Subdivisions
There are 14 subdivisions within the RCM:
;Cities & towns (3)
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Cookshire-Eaton
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East Angus
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Scotstown
;Municipalities (8)
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Ascot Corner
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Bury
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Chartierville
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Dudswell
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La Patrie
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Newport
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Saint-Isidore-de-Clifton
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Weedon
;Townships (3)
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Hampden
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Lingwick
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Westbury
Demographics
Mother tongue data, from
Canada 2016 Census
The 2016 Canadian census was an enumeration of Canadian residents, which counted a population of 35,151,728, a change from its 2011 population of 33,476,688. The census, conducted by Statistics Canada, was Canada's seventh quinquennial censu ...
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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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See also
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References
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