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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 seventeen administrative regions of Quebec. There are 17 administrative regions of Quebec. [9] They have no government, but serve to organize the provision of provincial services. They are: 01 Bas-Saint-Laurent; 02 Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean; 03 Capitale-Nationale; 04 Mauricie; 05 Estrie; 06 Montréal; 07 Outaouais; 08 Abitibi-Témiscamingue ...
[5] Thanks to journalist Denis Gauthier and Mayor Bruno Simard, the "lilac garden" of Cap-à-l'Aigle was created in 1997 and the development work began in 2002. To give a leverage to this horticultural complex Konrad Kircher, a horticulturist of German origin, has donated a rare collection of more than 1,000 lilacs to this non-profit organization.
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 ...
Lanaudière is generally rural, while the urban areas are generally concentrated in the south of the region, such as Repentigny, Terrebonne and Berthierville. The altitude rises as one goes northwards; it is 20 meters (66 ft) near the Saint Lawrence River to almost 800 meters (2,600 ft) at the top of mountains near Saint-Donat and Saint-Zénon .
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Stukely-Sud had a population of 1,142 living in 510 of its 599 total private dwellings, a change of 7.9% from its 2016 population of 1,058. With a land area of 63.19 km 2 (24.40 sq mi), it had a population density of 18.1/km 2 (46.8/sq mi) in 2021. [5] Population trend: [6]
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.
The Côte-Nord is bounded to the west by the Capitale-Nationale and Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean regions and, to the north, by the Nord-du-Québec region and by Labrador. To the south, it extends from Tadoussac to the east of Blanc-Sablon, encompassing Anticosti Island and part of the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. [5]