Ristigouche-Sud-Est, Quebec
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Ristigouche-Sud-Est (; or Ristigouche-Partie-Sud-Est until February 2024) is a
municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...
in
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, Canada, near the head of the Baie de Chaleur. It is a rural municipality without population centres, situated along the CN Railway line which hosts the
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route; the nearest VIA station is Matapedia.


History

At the beginning of the 19th century, the voyage between Quebec and Saint John passed the Temiscouata Portage and via the Saint John River valley. After the
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, it was decided to develop a new maritime route which was to be located away from the border. The Matapedia River valley was selected, and the route would be named Kempt Road, for General Sir James Kempt, then Governor-General of British North America. Construction started in 1830, under the supervision of William MacDonald, Frederic Fournier and Major Wolfe, but the route remained difficult and government decided to abandon it in 1857. A new path between
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and the Restigouche was adopted in 1862, and in 1868 the
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project that was to transform the British North American Colonies into Canada selected the Matapedia River road to be its route. On 1 July 1876, the Sainte-Flavie- Campbellton section was opened. The township municipality was formed in 1907 when it separated from the Township Municipality of Ristigouche (now Saint-André-de-Restigouche). On 17 April 1983, the
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was formed by the Quebec government. In March 2013, the municipality was served notice of pursuit by the resource extractor Gastem for $1.5 million because the municipality sought to protect its drinking water source from
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, by imposing an exclusion zone of 2 km around water wells. Gastem later ceded its exploration permits to . now a subsidiary of the French multinational oil producer ,radio-canada.ca: "André Proulx écarté de Pétrolia?"
17 Sep 2013
The municipality had amassed $146,000 in its charitable legal defence fund as of March 2015. Gastem offered an amicable resolution at that time for that cost.ledevoir.com: "Poursuivie par Gastem, Ristigouche craint la faillite"
17 Mar 2015
Ultimately, a judge of the
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ruled in the township's favour in 2017. In February 2024, the township changed status to became a regular municipality and took the current name of Ristigouche-Sud-Est.


Demographics

In the
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conducted by
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, Ristigouche-Sud-Est had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.


Language


Government

Municipal council (as of 2024): * Mayor: David Ferguson * Councillors: Daniel Charest, Lucien Leblanc, Francis Levesque, Marie-Ève Nadeau, Sabrina Landry-Court, Mélanie Côté


See also

*
List of anglophone communities in Quebec This is a list of anglophone communities in the Canadian province of Quebec. Municipalities with a high percentage of English-speakers in Quebec are listed. The provincial average of Quebecers whose mother tongue is English is 7.6%, with a tot ...
*
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References


External links


Restigouche South-East Municipality (French)
{{authority control Incorporated places in Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine Municipalities in Quebec