Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière () was 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 ...
and
census division
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in
Quebec
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. It and
Desjardins Regional County Municipality were formed from the division of
Lévis County in the 1980s. It ceased to exist when most of it, along with most of Desjardins RCM, amalgamated into the expanded city of
Lévis
Lévis () is a city in eastern Quebec, Canada, located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, opposite Quebec City. A ferry links Old Quebec with Old Lévis, and two bridges, the Quebec Bridge and the Pierre-Laporte Bridge, connect we ...
on January 1, 2002.
Subdivisions
Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière RCM consisted of:
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Charny
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Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon
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Saint-Jean-Chrysostome
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Saint-Nicolas
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Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon
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Saint-Rédempteur
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Saint-Romuald
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Sainte-Hélène-de-Breakeyville
Dissolution
When Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière RCM was dissolved, nearly all of its components amalgamated into the newly expanded Lévis:
* Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon, Saint-Nicolas, Saint-Redempteur composed the borough of
Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Ouest.
* Charny, Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Saint-Romuald, and Sainte-Hélène-de-Breakeyville composed the borough of
Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Est.
* Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon remained independent and joined
La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality
La Nouvelle-Beauce (, ''New Beauce'') is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region in southeastern Quebec, Canada, south of the Saint Lawrence River. It is located south of Lévis, Quebec, Lévis, along the Chaudière Ri ...
.
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
Former regional county municipalities in Quebec
Populated places disestablished in 2002
Lévis, Quebec
2002 disestablishments in Quebec
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