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Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality

Les Chenaux (French pronunciation: [le ʃəno], meaning the channels in French) is a regional county municipality in central Quebec, Canada, in the Mauricie region. The seat is in Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes. It is located adjacent on the east of Trois-Rivières on the Saint Lawrence River. It has a land area of 872.04 square kilometres (336.70 sq mi) and a population of 17,865 inhabitants in the Canada 2011 Census. Its largest community is the parish of Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel.

Les Chenaux is one of the few regional county municipalities in Quebec that does not constitute its own census division; instead, it is grouped with Trois-Rivières as the single census division of Francheville.

Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes, signs at the intersection of Route 359 South and North, Rang Saint-Alexis and direction to Highway 40

Geography

The "Les Chenaux" RCM is an area east of Trois-Rivières, located between the villages of Champlain and Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade on north shore of St. Lawrence River. The MRC is approximately 40 km in length to about 20 kilometers in depth. The territory is crossed by three rivers flowing from north to south: Champlain River, Batiscan River and Sainte-Anne River.

History

The RCM was created in 2002, when the area was realigned to make way for the amalgamations of nearby Trois-Rivières and Shawinigan. All of the municipalities, except for Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel (which came from Centre-de-la-Mauricie RCM), used to belong to the former Francheville Regional County Municipality. This RCM was dissolved when six of its municipalities amalgamated with the city of Trois-Rivières, and Saint-Étienne-des-Grès was added to the Maskinongé RCM. The remaining municipalities were grouped into a new regional county called Les Chenaux.

Subdivisions

There are 10 subdivisions within the RCM:

Demography

Municipalities of "Les Chenaux" RCM
Municipality Status Area Population
(2006)
Density
Batiscan Municipality 44,02 km 937 hab. 21,3 inhabitants/km
Champlain Municipality 58,59 km 1 583 hab. 27,0 inhabitants/km
Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel Municipality of parish 126,61 km 5 300 hab. 41,9 inhabitants/km
Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade Municipality 107,94 km 2 145 hab. 19,9 inhabitants/km
Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan Municipality of parish 97,09 km 1 125 hab. 11,6 inhabitants/km
Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes Municipality 52,73 km 613 hab. 11,6 inhabitants/km
Saint-Maurice Municipality of parish 90,33 km 2 308 hab. 25,6 inhabitants/km
Saint-Narcisse Municipality of parish 103,49 km 1 852 hab. 17,9 inhabitants/km
Saint-Prosper Municipality 92.03 km 555 hab. 6.0 inhabitants/km
Saint-Stanislas Municipality 86,37 km 1 077 hab. 12,5 inhabitants/km
Total 859,20 km 17 495 hab. 20,4 inhabitants/km

Transportation

Access routes

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

Photos

See also

References

  1. ^ "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 375747". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
  2. ^ "Répertoire des municipalités: Geographic code 372". www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.
  3. ^ 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Francheville (Stats include City of Trois-Rivières figures)
  4. ^ Derived indirectly by subtracting the data for Trois-Rivières census subdivision from the data for Francheville census division (view side-by-side).
  5. ^ Official Transport Quebec Road Map