Les Rivières (. ''The Rivers'') is a borough of
Quebec City
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,
Quebec
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,
Canada
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. Population (2006): 59,920. It comprises 5 neighbourhoods:
Neufchâtel-Est,
Lebourgneuf,
Duberger,
Les Saules and
Vanier. Except for Vanier, all of these neighbourhoods were part of the
pre-2002 city of Quebec.
Description
Les Rivières is one of the six boroughs of
Quebec City
Quebec City is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Census Metropolitan Area (including surrounding communities) had a populati ...
. It takes its name from the
Saint-Charles River that passes through the borough as well as two
tributaries
A tributary, or an ''affluent'', is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream ('' main stem'' or ''"parent"''), river, or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries, and the main stem river into which the ...
rivers of Saint-Charles: Berger and Lorette. The borough is geographically located in the centre of Quebec City and contains the
Galeries de la Capitale shopping centre.
Les Rivières borough vastly corresponds to the Rivières section of the former city of Québec (Québec City as it was known before the
2002 municipal reorganization). The borough also include the former city of
Vanier which was merged into Quebec City in 2002.
The Rivières section of the former city was made of four municipalities that were annexed to Quebec City in the 1970s. They were Duberger, Les Saules, Neufchâtel and Charlesbourg-Ouest.
These former municipalities kept their respective name as neighbourhoods of Quebec City with the exception of Charlesbourg-Ouest which was renamed Lebourgneuf. Lebourgneuf got its name as a
portmanteau
In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed by combining the meanings, and parts of the sounds, of two or more words together. from the last letters of Charlesbourg and the first letters Neufchatel because Charlesbourg-Ouest was located between
Charlesbourg and Neufchâtel.
Following the creation of the new city of Quebec in 2002, Neufchâtel was dismantled, with most of it going to
La Haute-Saint-Charles borough. The part of Neufchâtel that was retained by Les Rivières borough became Neufchâtel-Est.
The borough is mostly an industrial area with a few residential neighbourhoods (Vanier, Duberger and Les Saules.) In recent years the population has increased following a large amount of residential development, particularity the construction of condos along Boulevard Robert-Bourassa.
See also
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Municipal reorganization in Quebec
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
References
Boroughs of Quebec City
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