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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.
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 ...
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.
There are 87 RCMs and 17 TEs in Quebec, for a total of 104 MRCGs. 14 of the TEs correspond exactly (or very nearly correspond) to cities or urban agglomerations. [1] The only 3 exceptional cases are the TEs of Jamésie, Kativik and Eeyou Istchee. These TEs lie in Northern Quebec and cover large areas with many, mostly small, municipalities.
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).
"French does not have its rightful place in communications between the federal government’s head offices and its regional offices in Quebec." "English remains underused as a language of work in the Quebec offices of federal institutions." [20] A lack of language proficiency on the part of some managers may contribute to the situation.
This is the list of communities in Quebec that have the legal status of village municipalities (village, code=VL) as defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy. This does not include Cree villages (code=VC), Naskapi villages (code=VK), or Northern villages (Inuit, code=VN), which have a separate legal status.
This is a list of communities in Quebec. Currently, local municipalities belonging to a regional county municipality are not listed, but they can be accessed through the link to their regional county municipality.