Outaouais

Outaouais
Administrative region
Coordinates: 45°47′N 75°05′W / 45.783°N 75.083°WCoordinates: 45°47′N 75°05′W / 45.783°N 75.083°W
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Regional County Municipalities (RCM) and Equivalent Territories (ET)	4 RCM, 1 ET La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais Papineau Pontiac Gatineau (ET)
Government
• Regional conference of elected officers	Paulette Lalande (President)
Area[1]
• Land	30,504 km^2 (11,778 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
• Total	368,181
• Density	12.1/km^2 (31/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Outaouaien(ne)
Time zone	EST (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
Postal code	J
Area code	819
Website	outaouais.gouv.qc.ca
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Outaouais (French pronunciation: ​[utawɛ]); (English pronunciation: /uːtəweɪ/; also commonly called The Outaouais) is a region of western Quebec, Canada. It includes the city of Gatineau (Hull, Aylmer, Gatineau, Masson-Angers, Buckingham), the Pontiac region, and the town of Maniwaki, and is located on the north side of the Ottawa River opposite Canada's capital, Ottawa. It has a land area of 30,760.05 square kilometres (11,876.52 sq mi) and a 2011 census population of 372,000 inhabitants.

Subdivisions

Regional County Municipalities

Regional County Municipality (RCM)	Population Canada 2011 Census[2]	Land Area	Density (pop. per km^2)	Seat of RCM
La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau	20,530	12,477.19 km^2 (4,817.47 sq mi)	1.6	Gracefield
Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais	46,393	2,048.24 km^2 (790.83 sq mi)	22.7	Chelsea
Papineau	22,541	2,941.82 km^2 (1,135.84 sq mi)	7.7	Papineauville
Pontiac	14,358	12,992.69 km^2 (5,016.51 sq mi)	1.1	Campbell's Bay
Gatineau (Equivalent territory)	265,349	342.98 km^2 (132.43 sq mi)	773.7	Gatineau

First Nations Reserves

• Kitigan Zibi
• Lac-Rapide

Major communities

• Bristol
• Cantley
• Chelsea
• Déléage
• Fort-Coulonge
• Gatineau
• Gracefield
• Kitigan Zibi
• L'Ange-Gardien
• La Pêche
• L'Isle-aux-Allumettes

• Maniwaki
• Mansfield-et-Pontefract
• Messines
• Montebello
• Papineauville
• MRC of Pontiac
• Ripon
• Saint-André-Avellin
• Shawville
• Thurso
• Val-des-Monts

School boards

Francophone

• Commission scolaire au Cœur-des-Vallées
• Commission scolaire des Draveurs
• Commission scolaire des Hauts-Bois-de-l'Outaouais
• Commission scolaire des Portages-de-l'Outaouais

Anglophone

• Western Québec School Board

References

1. "La région de l'Outaouais, ainsi que ses MRC et TE". Profils des régions et des MRC (in French). Quebec: Institut de la statistique du Québec. 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
2. "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census divisions, 2011 and 2006 censuses". Canada 2011 Census. Statistics Canada. 2012-04-11. Retrieved 14 August 2013.

External links

• Portail régional de l'Outaouais Official website (French)
• Répertoire des clubs de golf de la région de l'Outaouais (French)