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Administrative regions are used to organize the delivery of provincial government services. They were also the basis of organization for regional conferences of elected officers (French: conférences régionales des élus, CRÉ), with the exception of the Montérégie and Nord-du-Québec regions, which each had three CRÉs or equivalent bodies.
The region's landscape features mixed forest to the south across the Témiscamingue area which falls within the St. Laurence watershed of southern Quebec, while boreal forest covers the Abitibi section further north in the Hudson Bay watershed of northern Quebec. The southern part of the region has a humid continental climate, while the ...
The South Shore (French: Rive-Sud) is the general term for the suburbs of Montreal, Quebec located on the southern shore of the Saint Lawrence River opposite the Island of Montreal. The South Shore is located within the Quebec administrative region of Montérégie. The largest city on the South Shore area is Longueuil.
Joliette (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a city in southwest Quebec, Canada. It is approximately 50 kilometres (31 mi) northeast of Montreal, on the L'Assomption River and is the seat of the Regional County Municipality of Joliette. It is considered to be a part of the North Shore of Greater Montreal. The city is home to the Joliette Art Museum ...
The region had a population of 1,507,070 as of the 2016 census and a land area of 11,132.34 square kilometres (4,298.22 sq mi), giving it a population density of 135.4 inhabitants per square kilometre (351 inhabitants/sq mi). [1] With approximately 18.5% of the province's population, it is the second most populous region of Quebec after Montreal.
The year 1888 marked the advent of electricity in the region and the industrial era began. On January 1, 1946, the municipality of Sainte-Thérèse-Ouest was founded. It was a detachment of the large parish of Sainte-Thérèse, which originally included the current territories of Saint-Augustin, Saint-Janvier, Sainte-Monique, Sainte-Thérèse ...
Nord-du-Québec (French pronunciation: [nɔʁ d͜zy kebɛk]; English: Northern Quebec) is the largest, but the least populous, of the seventeen administrative regions of Quebec, Canada. Spread over nearly 14 degrees of latitude, north of the 49th parallel, the region covers 860,692 km 2 (332,315 sq mi) on the Labrador Peninsula , making it ...
Sainte-Thérèse (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t teʁɛz]) is an off-island suburb northwest of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Thérèse-De Blainville Regional County Municipality. The town is mostly known as a home for heavy industry , but it is also a centre of recreational and tourist activities.