Portneuf () 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 ...
(RCM) in the
Capitale-Nationale
Capitale-Nationale (; ) is one of the 17 administrative regions of Quebec. It is anchored by the provincial capital, Quebec City, and is largely coextensive with that city's metropolitan area. It has a land area of 18,684.78 km2. It reported ...
administrative 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. RCM of Portneuf has been established on January 1, 1982. It is composed of 21 municipalities: nine cities, seven municipalities, two parishes and three unorganized territories. The county seat is located in
Cap-Santé
Cap-Santé () is a town in the Canadian province of Quebec. It is the county seat of Portneuf Regional County Municipality and was as well the county seat of the designated Portneuf County, Quebec, Portneuf County.
The name of the town means "C ...
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History
The Regional County Municipality of Portneuf was constituted as a regional administrative entity on November 25, 1981, by a Provincial decree creating the supralocal
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 ...
administration based on the (...) and therefore replacing the previously existing historic
Portneuf County Corporation. While the new administrative boundary included most of the communities from its previous historic limits, a few municipalities were merged with bordering entities:
St-Augustin-de-Desmaures,
Sainte-Catherine-de-Portneuf,
Notre-Dame-de-Montauban, Quebec. Those municipalities yet remained within the Electoral Federal Riding of
Portneuf District ''(all but Notre-Dame-de-Montauban).''
The administrative county seat remained in
Cap-Santé
Cap-Santé () is a town in the Canadian province of Quebec. It is the county seat of Portneuf Regional County Municipality and was as well the county seat of the designated Portneuf County, Quebec, Portneuf County.
The name of the town means "C ...
while moving from the County Corporation building to a newly built one located further east on 185,
Route 138 at a slight distance from the historic village of Cap-Santé.
Subdivisions
There are 21 subdivisions within the RCM:
;Cities & Towns (9)
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Cap-Santé
Cap-Santé () is a town in the Canadian province of Quebec. It is the county seat of Portneuf Regional County Municipality and was as well the county seat of the designated Portneuf County, Quebec, Portneuf County.
The name of the town means "C ...
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Donnacona
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Lac-Sergent
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Neuville
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Pont-Rouge
Pont-Rouge (, ) is a Canadian city along the Jacques-Cartier River in southern Quebec, Canada. In the Canada 2021 Census the population was 10,121 inhabitants.
History
The first efforts to colonise the area came around 1769.
On April 15, 186 ...
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Portneuf
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Saint-Basile
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Saint-Marc-des-Carrières
Saint-Marc-des-Carrières () is a town in Quebec, Canada, part of Portneuf Regional County Municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region.
The place has earned the title of Rock Capital of Portneuf County because of its rock quarries that have pl ...
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Saint-Raymond
Saint-Raymond (), also called Saint-Raymond de Portneuf (), is a city in Quebec, Canada, located about north-west of Quebec City. It is the largest city in population and area of the Portneuf Regional County Municipality.
History
First sett ...
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Deschambault-Grondines
Deschambault-Grondines () is a municipality located in the Portneuf Regional County Municipality (RCM), in the Capitale-Nationale region, Quebec, Canada.
Deschambault-Grondines was created in 2002 by the merger of the villages of Deschambault ...
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Rivière-à-Pierre
Rivière-à-Pierre () is a municipality of the Portneuf Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of the Capitale-Nationale. This area of the Laurentian Mountains is part of the Batiscanie, Quebec, Batiscanie and has more than ...
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Saint-Alban
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Saint-Casimir
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Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne
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Saint-Léonard-de-Portneuf
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Saint-Ubalde
;Parishes (2)
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Saint-Gilbert
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Saint-Thuribe
;Unorganized Territory (3)
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Lac-Blanc
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Lac-Lapeyrère
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Linton
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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See also
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* Portneuf County, Quebec
Portneuf County (, ) is a historic county in Quebec, Canada west of Quebec City on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada.
The county seat was Cap-Santé. Previously named Hampshire County (after Hampshire, England) formed in 1792 at the end of the ...
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