Kamouraska Regional County Municipality

Kamouraska
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 47°32′N 69°49′W / 47.533°N 69.817°WCoordinates: 47°32′N 69°49′W / 47.533°N 69.817°W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Bas-Saint-Laurent
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Saint-Pascal
Government[2]
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Yvon Soucy
Area[2][3]
• Total	2,603.70 km^2 (1,005.29 sq mi)
• Land	2,244.25 km^2 (866.51 sq mi)
Population (2011)[3]
• Total	21,492
• Density	9.6/km^2 (25/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	2.7%
• Dwellings	10,383
Time zone	EST (UTC−5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−4)
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Website	www.mrckamouraska.com

Kamouraska is a regional county municipality in eastern Quebec, Canada. Regional County municipality seat is Saint-Pascal. The other main town is La Pocatière, Quebec.

The area is an important research, development and education centre for agriculture. Factories in the region produce metal products and public transportation equipment. One of the people instrumental in settling and developing this area was Pascal Taché, an early seigneur.

The name "Kamouraska" comes from an Algonquin word meaning "where rushes grow at the water's edge". ^[4]

Subdivisions

There are 19 subdivisions within the RCM:^[2]

Cities & Towns (2) La Pocatière Saint-Pascal

Municipalities (11) Kamouraska Mont-Carmel Rivière-Ouelle Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska Saint-André Saint-Bruno-de-Kamouraska

Saint-Denis-De La Bouteillerie Sainte-Hélène-de-Kamouraska Saint-Gabriel-Lalemant Saint-Onésime-d'Ixworth Saint-Pacôme

Parishes (4) Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière Saint-Germain Saint-Joseph-de-Kamouraska Saint-Philippe-de-Néri

Unorganized Territory (2) Petit-Lac-Sainte-Anne Picard

Transportation

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:^[5]

Autoroutes A-20 (TCH)

Principal Highways Route 132

Secondary Highways Route 230 Route 287 Route 289

External Routes None

See also

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec

References

1. Reference number 141101 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (French)
2. Geographic code 140 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (French)
3. "(Code 2414) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.
4. 'Kamouraska' comes from the Abenaki, ska moraskua, which means "birch bark here", "there is some white birch bark". This sort of birch bark is used for making canoes and wigwams.
5. Official Transport Quebec Road Map

External links

• Kamouraska Regional County Municipality Official site.