Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality

Les Chenaux
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 46°30′N 72°25′W / 46.500°N 72.417°W / 46.500; -72.417Coordinates: 46°30′N 72°25′W / 46.500°N 72.417°W / 46.500; -72.417[1]
Country  Canada
Province  Quebec
Region Mauricie
Effective January 1, 2002
County seat Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes
Government[2]
 • Type Prefecture
 • Prefect Gérard Bruneau
Area[2][3][4]
 • Total 934.40 km2 (360.77 sq mi)
 • Land 872.04 km2 (336.70 sq mi)
Population (2011)[3][4]
 • Total 17,865
 • Density 20.5/km2 (53/sq mi)
 • Pop 2006-2011 Increase 5.2%
 • Dwellings 8,393
Time zone EST (UTC−5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC−4)
Area code(s) 819, 418 or 581
Website www.mrcdeschenaux.ca

Les Chenaux (meaning the channels in French) is a regional county municipality in central Quebec, Canada, in the Mauricie region. The seat is in Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes. It is located adjacent on the east of Trois-Rivières on the Saint Lawrence River. It has a land area of 872.04 square kilometres (336.70 sq mi) and a population of 17,865 inhabitants in the Canada 2011 Census.[4] Its largest community is the parish of Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel.

Les Chenaux is one of the few regional county municipalities in Quebec that does not constitute its own census division; instead, it is grouped with Trois-Rivières as the single census division of Francheville.

Geography

The "Les Chenaux" RCM is an area east of Trois-Rivières, located between the villages of Champlain and Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade on north shore of St. Lawrence River. The MRC is approximately 40 km in length to about 20 kilometers in depth. The territory is crossed by three rivers flowing from north to south: Champlain River, Batiscan River and Sainte-Anne River.

History

The RCM was created in 2002, when the area was realigned to make way for the amalgamations of nearby Trois-Rivières and Shawinigan. All of the municipalities, except for Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel (which came from Centre-de-la-Mauricie RCM), used to belong to the former Francheville Regional County Municipality. This RCM was dissolved when six of its municipalities amalgamated with the city of Trois-Rivières, and Saint-Étienne-des-Grès was added to the Maskinongé RCM. The remaining municipalities were grouped into a new regional county called Les Chenaux.

Subdivisions

There are 10 subdivisions within the RCM:[2]

Municipalities
Parishes

Demography

Municipalities of "Les Chenaux" RCM
Municipality Statut Area Population
(2006) 		Density
Batiscan Municipality 44,02 km² 937 hab. 21,3 hab./km²
Champlain Municipality 58,59 km² 1 583 hab. 27,0 hab./km²
Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel Municipality of parish 126,61 km² 5 300 hab. 41,9 hab./km²
Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade Municipality 107,94 km² 2 145 hab. 19,9 hab./km²
Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan Municipality of parish 97,09 km² 1 125 hab. 11,6 hab./km²
Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes Municipality 52,73 km² 613 hab. 11,6 hab./km²
Saint-Maurice Municipality of parish 90,33 km² 2 308 hab. 25,6 hab./km²
Saint-Narcisse Municipality of parish 103,49 km² 1 852 hab. 17,9 hab./km²
Saint-Prosper Municipality 92.03 km² 555 hab. 6.0 hab./km²
Saint-Stanislas Municipality 86,37 km² 1 077 hab. 12,5 hab./km²
Total 859,20 km² 17 495 hab. 20,4 hab./km²

Transportation

Access routes

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

  • External Routes
    • None

See also

References

  1. ↑ Reference number 375747 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (French)
  2. 1 2 3 Geographic code 372 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (French)
  3. 1 2 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Francheville (Stats include City of Trois-Rivières figures)
  4. 1 2 3 Derived indirectly by subtracting the data for Trois-Rivières census subdivision from the data for Francheville census division (view side-by-side).
  5. ↑ Official Transport Quebec Road Map


Adjacent Counties & Equivalent Territories
Shawinigan TE Mékinac RCM
Maskinongé RCM Portneuf RCM
   Les Chenaux RCM  
Trois-Rivières TE Saint Lawrence River
Bécancour RCM


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