Kamouraska Regional County Municipality

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Kamouraska
Regional county municipality
Location of Kamouraska
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Country  Canada
Province  Quebec
Region Bas-Saint-Laurent
Effective January 1, 1982
County seat Saint-Pascal
Government[2]
 • Type Prefecture
 • Prefect Yvon Soucy
Area[2][3]
 • Total 2,603.70 km2 (1,005.29 sq mi)
 • Land 2,244.25 km2 (866.51 sq mi)
Population (2011)[3]
 • Total 21,492
 • Density 9.6/km2 (25/sq mi)
 • Pop 2006-2011 Decrease 2.7%
 • Dwellings 10,383
Time zone EST (UTC−5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC−4)
Area code(s) 418 and 581
Website www.mrckamouraska.com

Kamouraska is a regional county municipality in eastern Quebec, Canada. Regional County municipality seat is Saint-Pascal. The other main town is La Pocatière, Quebec.

The area is an important research, development and education centre for agriculture. Factories in the region produce metal products and public transportation equipment. One of the people instrumental in settling and developing this area was Pascal Taché, an early seigneur.

The name "Kamouraska" comes from an Algonquin word meaning "where rushes grow at the water's edge".[citation needed] [4]

Subdivisions

There are 19 subdivisions within the RCM:[2]

Transportation

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[5]

See also

References

  1. Reference number 141101 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (French)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Geographic code 140 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (French)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. 'Kamouraska' comes from the Abenaki, ska moraskua, which means "birch bark here", "there is some white birch bark". This sort of birch bark is used for making canoes and wigwams.
  5. Official Transport Quebec Road Map

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