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Pages in category "Bilingual cities and towns in Quebec" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
There are today three distinct territories in the Greater Montreal Area: the metropolitan region, Montreal Island, and Montreal, the city. (The island and the city were coterminous for a time between the municipal merger of 2002 and the "demerger" which occurred in January 2006.) Quebec allophones account for 9% of the population of Quebec.
A regional county municipality (French: Municipalité régionale de comté) in Quebec is a membership of numerous local municipalities, which in some cases can include unorganized territories, that was formed to administer certain services at the regional level such as waste management, public transit, land use planning and development, property assessment, etc. [14] Its council comprises the ...
Bilingual (English/French) stop sign on Parliament Hill in Ottawa [7] Royal Military College Paladins Bilingual (English/French) Scoreboard, inner field, Royal Military College of Canada [8] Bilingual (French/English) sign for Preston Street (rue Preston) in Ottawa, placed above a sign marking that the street is in Little Italy, an example of bilingualism at the municipal government level [9
According to the Office québécois de la langue française, Kirkland has been officially recognized as a bilingual municipality [7] since 2005-11-02. [ 8 ] In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Kirkland had a population of 19,413 living in 6,666 of its 6,790 total private dwellings, a change of -3.7% from its 2016 ...
Quebec has 1,110 municipalities across 6 different municipal status types, including 227 cities/towns (French: villes), 145 parishes (French: paroisses), 42 townships (French: cantons), 2 united townships (French: cantons unis), 44 villages, and 650 with generic "municipality" (French: municipalités).
At the time of Confederation in 1867, English and French were made the official languages of debate in the Parliament of Canada and the Parliament of Quebec.No specific policies were enacted for the other provinces, and no provisions were made for the official languages to be used in other elements of the government such the courts, schools, post offices, and so on.
Municipalities are governed primarily by the Code municipal du Québec (Municipal Code of Québec, R.S.Q. c. C-27.1), [1] whereas cities and towns are governed by the Loi sur les cités et villes (Cities and Towns Act, R.S.Q. c. C-19) [2] as well as (in the case of the older ones) various individual charters. [citation needed]