Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality

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Beauce-Sartigan
Regional county municipality
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Country  Canada
Province Quebec
Region Chaudière-Appalaches
Effective January 1, 1982
County seat Saint-Georges
Communities
List
Government[1]
 • Type Prefecture
 • Prefect Luc Lemieux
Area[1][2]
 • Total 1,977.00 km2 (763.32 sq mi)
 • Land 1,954.50 km2 (754.64 sq mi)
Population (2016)[2]
 • Total 52,406
 • Density 26.8/km2 (69/sq mi)
 • Change
2011-2016		 Increase 2.7%
 • Dwellings 24,195
Time zone EST (UTC−5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC−4)
Website www.mrc
beaucesartigan.com
[3]

Beauce-Sartigan is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. The county seat is Saint-Georges.[1]

The Chaudière River flows through it. It shares its eastern border with Maine, United States.

The name of the RCM is linked to the historical region of which it is part, Beauce. Sartigan is a distortion of Mechatigan (or Msakkikhan), the name given to the Chaudière River by the native Abenakis.

Subdivisions

There are 16 subdivisions within the RCM:[1]

Demographics

Ethnicity

Source: 2016 Census [2]

  • 96.2% White
  • 2.8% Aboriginal
  • 1.0% Visible Minority

Transportation

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

Attractions

  • Centre d'art de Saint-Georges (Saint-Georges)
  • Centre Marie-Fitzbach (Saint-Georges)
  • Magasin général Honoré Grégoire (Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley)
  • Musée d'autos antiques Victor-Bélanger (Saint-Côme–Linière)
  • Pont couvert Perreault (1928) (Notre-Dame-des-Pins)
  • Saint-Georges Airport (Saint-Georges)
  • Saint-Paul-de-Cumberland Church (1847) (Saint-Simon-les-Mines)
  • Village miniature Baillargeon (Saint-Georges)

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Geographic code 290 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (French)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  4. ↑ Reference number 141119 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (French)
  5. ↑ Official Transport Quebec Road Map


Adjacent Counties & Equivalent Territories
Beauce-Centre RCM Les Etchemins RCM
Les Appalaches RCM  United States
Maine Somerset County, Maine
  Beauce-Sartigan RCM  
Le Granit RCM


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