Maskinongé Regional County Municipality

Maskinongé is a regional county municipality in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Louiseville. It is located adjacent on the west of Trois-Rivières on the Saint Lawrence River.

Maskinongé
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 46°19′N 72°56′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Mauricie
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Louiseville
Government [2]
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Robert Lalonde
Area [2][3]
• Total	2,502.40 km^2 (966.18 sq mi)
• Land	2,384.76 km^2 (920.76 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[3]
• Total	36,316
• Density	15.2/km^2 (39/sq mi)
• Change 2011-2016	0.1%
• Dwellings	19,075
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Area code(s)	819
Website	www.mrc-maskinonge.qc.ca
[4]

The population according to the 2016 Canadian Census was 36,316, an increase of 0.1% over the 2011 population.[3]

History

The RCM was formed on January 1, 1982, and it consisted of Hunterstown Township (now part of Saint-Paulin); Belleau Municipality (now part of Saint-Alexis-des-Monts); the parish municipalities of Saint-Alexis-des-Monts, Sainte-Angèle (since renamed to Sainte-Angèle-de-Premont), Sainte-Anne-d'Yamachiche (now part of Yamachiche), Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup (now part of Louiseville), Saint-Barnabé, Saint-Édouard (since renamed to Saint-Édouard-de-Maskinongé), Saint-Joseph-de-Maskinongé (now part of Maskinongé), Saint-Justin, Saint-Léon-le-Grand, Saint-Paulin, Saint-Sévère, and Sainte-Ursule; and the village municipalities of Louiseville, Maskinongé, Saint-Paulin, and Yamachiche.

On January 1, 2002, the municipalities of Charette, Saint-Boniface-de-Shawinigan (since renamed to Saint-Boniface), Saint-Élie (since renamed to Saint-Élie-de-Caxton), Saint-Étienne-des-Grès, and Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc were transferred to the Maskinongé Regional County Municipality when the Centre-de-la-Mauricie and Francheville Regional Counties were dissolved.

Subdivisions

There are 17 subdivisions within the RCM:[2]

Cities & Towns Louiseville

Municipalities Charette Maskinongé Saint-Boniface Saint-Édouard-de-Maskinongé Saint-Élie-de-Caxton Saint-Justin Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc Saint-Paulin Sainte-Angèle-de-Prémont Yamachiche

Parishes Saint-Alexis-des-Monts Saint-Barnabé Saint-Étienne-des-Grès Saint-Léon-le-Grand Saint-Sévère Sainte-Ursule

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-40

Principal Highways Route 132 Route 153

Secondary Highways Route 348 Route 349 Route 350 Route 351

External Routes None

See also

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec

References

1. Reference number 141058 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French)
2. Geographic code 510 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (in French)
3. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Maskinongé, Municipalité régionale de comté [Census division], Quebec". Statistics Canada. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
4. "(Code 2451) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.
5. Official Transport Quebec Road Map