Lotbinière Regional County Municipality

Lotbinière
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 46°31′N 71°36′W / 46.517°N 71.600°WCoordinates: 46°31′N 71°36′W / 46.517°N 71.600°W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Sainte-Croix
Government[2]
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Maurice Sénécal
Area[2][3][4]
• Total	1,687.00 km^2 (651.35 sq mi)
• Land	1,661.99 km^2 (641.70 sq mi)
Population (2011)[3]
• Total	29,617
• Density	17.8/km^2 (46/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	8.0%
• Dwellings	13,321
Time zone	EST (UTC−5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−4)
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Website	www.mrclotbiniere.org

Lotbinière is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec. It is an almost exclusively rural RCM, with no village with a population above 4,000. As of the Canada 2011 Census, the RCM had a population of 29,617. Its seat is in Sainte-Croix.

Subdivisions

There are 18 subdivisions within the RCM:^[2]

Municipalities (13) Dosquet Leclercville Lotbinière Saint-Agapit Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly Saint-Apollinaire Sainte-Agathe-de-Lotbinière

Sainte-Croix Saint-Flavien Saint-Janvier-de-Joly Saint-Patrice-de-Beaurivage Saint-Sylvestre Val-Alain

Parishes (4) Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur-d'Issoudun Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière Saint-Gilles Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage

Villages (1) Laurier-Station

Demographics

Language

Mother tongue language from Canada 2006 Census

Language	Population	Pct (%)
French only	26,290	98.17%
English only	145	0.54%
Both English and French	60	0.22%
Other languages	285	1.07%

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 116 Route 132

Secondary Highways Route 216 Route 218 Route 226 Route 269 Route 271 Route 273

External Routes None

See also

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec

References

1. Reference number 141061 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (French)
2. Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire: Lotbinière Regional County Municipality
3. "(Code 2433) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.
4. 2006 Statistics Canada Community Profile: Lotbinière Regional County Municipality, Quebec
5. Official Transport Quebec Road Map

External links

• (French) Lotbinière Regional County website