La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality

La Vallée-de-l'Or
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 48°23′N 77°14′W / 48.383°N 77.233°WCoordinates: 48°23′N 77°14′W / 48.383°N 77.233°W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Effective	April 8, 1981
County seat	Val-d'Or
Government[2]
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Fernand Trahan
Area[2][3]
• Total	27,149.30 km^2 (10,482.40 sq mi)
• Land	24,294.28 km^2 (9,380.07 sq mi)
Population (2011)[3]
• Total	42,896
• Density	1.8/km^2 (5/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	2.4%
• Dwellings	19,532
Time zone	EST (UTC−5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−4)
Area code(s)	819
Website	www.mrcvo.qc.ca

La Vallée-de-l'Or (The Golden Valley) is a regional county municipality in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region in northwestern Quebec, Canada. The seat is in Val-d'Or. It is named for its gold deposits in the Harricana River and Bell River valleys.

Before October 11, 2003, it was known simply as Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality.^[4]

Subdivisions

There are 10 subdivisions within the RCM:^[2]

Cities & Towns (3) Malartic Senneterre Val-d'Or

Municipalities (2) Belcourt Rivière-Héva

Parishes (1) Senneterre

Unorganized Territory (4) Lac-Granet Lac-Metei Matchi-Manitou Réservoir-Dozois

Demographics

Population

Historical Census Data - La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality, Quebec[8]
Year Pop. ±% 1991 43,121 —     1996 44,389 +2.9%	Year Pop. ±% 2001 42,375 −4.5% 2006 41,896 −1.1%	Year Pop. ±% 2011 42,896 +2.4%

Language

Canada Census Mother Tongue - La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality, Quebec[8]
Census		Total		French				English				French & English				Other
Year		Responses		Count	Trend	Pop %		Count	Trend	Pop %		Count	Trend	Pop %		Count	Trend	Pop %
2011		42,340		39,360	3.6%	92.96%		1,205	25.5%	2.85%		290	1.8%	0.68%		1,485	27.7%	3.51%
2006		41,275		37,975	2.1%	92.00%		960	5.4%	2.33%		285	5.0%	0.69%		2,055	18.4%	4.98%
2001		41,845		38,795	4.4%	92.71%		1,015	19.8%	2.43%		300	15.5%	0.72%		1,735	8.1%	4.15%
1996		43,780		40,565	n/a	92.66%		1,265	n/a	2.89%		355	n/a	0.81%		1,595	n/a	3.64%

Transportation

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:^[9]

Autoroutes None

Principal Highways Route 109 Route 111 Route 113 Route 117 (TCH)

Secondary Highways Route 386 Route 397

External Routes None

See also

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec

References

1. Reference number 376772 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (French)
2. Geographic code 890 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (French)
3. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality, Quebec
4. "Regroupements de municipalités réalisés entre le 1^er janvier 2001 et le 31 décembre 2011" (PDF) (in French). Government of Quebec. February 2012. p. 21. Retrieved March 29, 2012.
5. "2011 Community Profiles". Canada 2011 Census. Statistics Canada. July 5, 2013. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
6. "2006 Community Profiles". Canada 2006 Census. Statistics Canada. March 30, 2011. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
7. "2001 Community Profiles". Canada 2001 Census. Statistics Canada. February 17, 2012. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
8. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census
9. Official Transport Quebec Road Map