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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 ...
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Soulanges Canal: Quebec: 5 1899 1958 Welland Recreational Waterway: Ontario: Welland Canal Welland Canal c. 1970s: The waterway formed a part of the original alignment for the Welland Canal that passed Welland, prior to the completion of the Welland By-Pass in the 1970s. Motorboats are prohibited from the Welland Recreational Waterway.
The Commission de toponymie du Québec describes a parish municipality (municipalité de paroisse) as "the territory of a parish (in the religious sense) established as a municipality" . Many of these remain from the days in which the Catholic Church served as an effective governmental structure in areas without established secular municipal ...
Shawinigan (English: / ʃ ə ˈ w ɪ n ɪ ɡ ən /; French: [ʃawiniɡan] ⓘ) is a city located on the Saint-Maurice River in the Mauricie area in Quebec, Canada.It had a population of 49,620 as of the 2021 Canadian census.
The territory of the original parish was much larger than that which exists today, as it also included the Saint-Louis-de-France neighborhood in Trois-Rivières and a part of the current parish of Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel. The parish municipality of Saint-Maurice was officially incorporated in 1855 during the original municipal division of Quebec.
Today the canal is enjoyed by tourists and more than 7,000 pleasure boats in the summer, and ice skaters in the winter. St-Joseph of Chambly Church, at 164 rue Martel, was built between 1880 and 1881. The parish was founded in 1665. Chambly's Church St-Joseph, viewed in winter from the Basin
The region has a land area of 35,860.05 km 2 (13,845.64 sq mi) and a population of 266,112 residents as of the 2016 Census. [1] Its largest cities are Trois-Rivières and Shawinigan. The word Mauricie was coined by local priest and historian Albert Tessier and is based on the Saint-Maurice river which runs through the region on a North-South axis.