Rapide-Danseur () is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
in northwestern
Quebec
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,
Canada
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, in the
Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality. It covers 173.73 km
2 and had a population of 380 as of the
2021 Canadian census
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.
The municipality was incorporated on January 1, 1981. It owes its name to a waterfall found on the Duparquet River between Lake Duparquet and
Lake Abitibi. The natives called it “opacicicimosik” which means “where we stop to dance, to stretch ourselves”, this after having done portage.
Demographics
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents (2021): 161 (total dwellings: 209)
[
Mother tongue (2021):][
* English as first language: 1.3%
* French as first language: 98.7%
* English and French as first language: 0%
* Other as first language: 0%
]
Government
Municipal council (2024):
Political representation
Provincially it is part of the riding of Abitibi-Ouest. In the 2022 Quebec general election
The 2022 Quebec general election was held on October 3, 2022, to elect the members of the National Assembly of Quebec. Under the province's Fixed election dates in Canada, fixed election date law, passed in 2013, "the general election following t ...
the incumbent MNA Suzanne Blais, of the Coalition Avenir Québec
The Coalition Avenir Québec (, , CAQ) is a Quebec nationalism, Quebec nationalist, Autonomism in Quebec, autonomist and conservatism, conservative , was re-elected to represent the population of Rapide-Danseur in the National Assembly of Quebec
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.
Federally, Rapide-Danseur is part of the federal riding of Abitibi—Témiscamingue. In the 2021 Canadian federal election
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, the incumbent Sébastien Lemire of the Bloc Québécois
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was re-elected to represent the population Rapide-Danseur in the House of Commons of Canada
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.
References
External links
Official website
Municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Populated places established in 1928
Long stubs with short prose
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