Les Chenaux (, meaning ''the channels'' in French) 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 central

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

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. The seat is in Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes. It is located adjacent on the east of

Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières (, ; ) is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice River, Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence River, Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Sain ...

on the

Saint Lawrence River The St. Lawrence River (, ) is a large international river in the middle latitudes of North America connecting the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic Ocean. Its waters flow in a northeasterly direction from Lake Ontario to the Gulf of St. Lawrenc ...

. It has a land area of and a population of 17,865 inhabitants in the

Canada 2011 Census The 2011 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population on May 10, 2011. Statistics Canada, an agency of the Canadian government, conducts a nationwide census every five years. In 2011, it consisted of a mandatory short for ...

. Its largest community is the parish of

Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel () is a parish municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada Statistics Canada (StatCan; ), formed in 197 ...

. Les Chenaux is one of the few regional county municipalities in Quebec that does not constitute its own

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 ...

; instead, it is grouped with Trois-Rivières as the single census division of Francheville. Saint Luc Vincennes 001

Geography

The "Les Chenaux" RCM is an area east of

, located between the villages of Champlain and

Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade () is a municipality located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, in Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality, Les Chenaux RCM, Mauricie region, Quebec, Canada. History On October 29, 1672, an area of 1.5 Fre ...

on north shore of

St. Lawrence River The St. Lawrence River (, ) is a large international river in the middle latitudes of North America connecting the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic Ocean. Its waters flow in a northeasterly direction from Lake Ontario to the Gulf of St. Lawren ...

. The MRC is approximately 40 km in length to about 20 kilometers in depth. The territory is crossed by three rivers flowing from north to south: Champlain River,

Batiscan River Batiscan River () has its source in the region of Lac Édouard, in the Laurentians Mountains, the Batiscan River flows over a length of 177 km. It receives water from numerous tributaries, including, in its upper reach, the Rivière aux É ...

and

Sainte-Anne River Sainte-Anne River (Les Chenaux), Teyaiar River ( Huron Wendat), rivière Sainte-Anne (French), flows from north to south on the north shore in the estuary section of the St. Lawrence River, in Les Chenaux, Portneuf and La Jacques-Cartier R ...

History

The RCM was created in 2002, when the area was realigned to make way for the amalgamations of nearby

and

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) ...

. All of the municipalities, except for

(which came from Centre-de-la-Mauricie RCM), used to belong to the former

Francheville Regional County Municipality Francheville () was a former regional county municipality in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada. Prior to its dissolution, it had an area of .''Rapport sur la réorganisation municipale et les équipements supra locaux dans la MRC de Franchevi ...

. This RCM was dissolved when six of its municipalities amalgamated with the city of

, and Saint-Étienne-des-Grès was added to the Maskinongé RCM. The remaining municipalities were grouped into a new regional county called Les Chenaux.

Subdivisions

There are 10 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Municipalities (6) *

Batiscan Batiscan (or Batisquan) was a chief of the Algonquin people in the area of Trois-Rivières, Quebec around 1610 to 1629. He met the explorer Samuel de Champlain upon his return to Quebec in 1610 and held a feast for him. In 1611, Samuel de Champla ...

* Champlain * Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes * Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain * Saint-Stanislas *

;Parishes (4) *

* Saint-Maurice *

Saint-Narcisse Saint-Narcisse () is a parish municipality located in the regional county municipality (MRC) Chenaux, in the administrative region of Mauricie, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. Located on the North Shore of the Saint Lawrence River, about ...

* Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan

Demography

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
/ref> * Autoroutes ** * Principal Highways ** ** ** * Secondary Highways ** ** ** ** ** * External Routes ** None

Photos

File:2020-09-28 003 Batiscan.jpg,

Slipway A slipway, also known as boat ramp or launch or boat deployer, is a ramp on the shore by which ships or boats can be moved to and from the water. They are used for building and repairing ships and boats, and for launching and retrieving smal ...

commercial fisherman Commercial fishing is the activity of catching fish and other seafood for commercial profit, mostly from wild fisheries. It provides a large quantity of food to many countries around the world, but those who practice it as an industry must often p ...

File:Ste Genevieve Batiscan 158.jpg, Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, the

Rivière à Veillet The Veillet River (French: ''Rivière-à- Veillet'') is located in the municipality of Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, Quebec, Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, in the Regional County Municipality of "Les Chenaux", in the administrative region of Mau ...

flows into the

File:Saint-Narcisse (Québec)-Belvédère au parc nature-Tourbière de St-Narcisse-2022-10-02.jpg,

, Lac-à-la-Tortue bog File:Saint Maurice 032.jpg, Saint-Maurice (Quebec), Au Lard River, agricultural zone File:Installation 005.jpg,

, Ste-Anne river, the installation of the winter fishing village File:Riviere Charest Saint-Prosper 003.jpg, Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain, rivière Charest, tributary of the Sainte-Anne River File:Notre Dame du Mont Carmel 017.jpg,

, Rivière Cachée File:Riviere Champlain 045.jpg, Champlain,

Champlain River The Champlain River flow on the north shore of St. Lawrence river, between Saint-Maurice River and the Batiscan River watershed, in Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality, in Mauricie administrative region, in the province of Quebec, Canada. ...

near its mouth File:Rivière Batiscan, zone rurale, Saint-Stanislas 015.jpg, Saint-Stanislas,

, Parish church, presbytery, municipality

References

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