Le_Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent_Regional_County_Municipality

Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality

Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality

Regional county municipality in Quebec, Canada

Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent is a regional county municipality in the Côte-Nord region of far-eastern Quebec, Canada. It includes all communities along the Gulf of Saint Lawrence between the Natashquan River and the Newfoundland and Labrador border.

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It has an area of 65,148.50 square kilometres (25,153.98 sq mi) according to Quebec's Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire (which includes coastal, lake, and river water territory and also disputed land within Labrador), or a land area of 43,340.96 square kilometres (16,734.04 sq mi) according to Statistics Canada. The population from the Canada 2011 Census was 5126.[4]

Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent and the neighbouring Minganie Regional County Municipality are grouped into the single census division of Minganie–Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent (known as Minganie–Basse-Côte-Nord before 2010). The combined population at the Canada 2011 Census was 11,708.[3]

Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality was created in July 2010, replacing Basse-Côte-Nord, which was a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality. It is territorially much larger than Basse-Côte-Nord was, because at the time of its creation it received the (uninhabited) Petit-Mécatina unorganized territory in a transfer from Minganie Regional County Municipality.[5]

Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality is characterized by the absence of road connections between the villages that are spread out along its 375 kilometres (233 mi) shoreline of the gulf. Except for Blanc-Sablon, all communities are only accessible by boat or plane, although Quebec Route 138 is being planned to extend all along the coast. Since the early 1990s, the region's commercial fishing industry has seen a steep decline, but a tourism industry is being developed to promote hunting and fishing outfitters, among other activities.[1]

Subdivisions

There are 6 subdivisions and one native reserve within the RCM:[2]

Transportation

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[6]

River basins

There are a number of large rivers that flow in a generally north-south direction through Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent to enter the Gulf. Near the coast the river basins tend to narrow in towards the river mouth, and between their mouths are areas that drain into the Gulf through smaller streams. From west to east, the larger river basins, which may cover parts of Labrador or Minganie, are:[7]

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References

  1. [1]
    "Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent (Municipalité régionale de comté)" (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec. Retrieved 2010-10-10.
  2. [2]
    "Répertoire des municipalités: Geographic code 982". www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.
  3. [3]
    "Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality (Code 2498) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada.
  4. [4]
    Derived indirectly from Minganie—Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent census division Hierarchy data, by summing up data for Blanc-Sablon, Bonne-Espérance, Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent, Gros-Mécatina, La Romaine, Pakuashipi, Petit-Mécatina and Saint-Augustin census subdivisions.
  5. [5]
    Audrée Soucy (July 2010), "Municipalité régionale de comté (MRC)" (PDF), Modifications aux municipalités du Québec, Québec: Institut de la statistique du Québec, ISSN 1715-6408, archived from the original (PDF) on June 12, 2011, retrieved 2010-09-17
  6. [6]
    Official Transport Quebec Road Map
  7. [7]
    Portrait préliminaire de la zone de gestion intégrée de l'eau par bassin versant Duplessis (PDF) (in French), OBV Duplessis, April 2015, p. 20, retrieved 2019-09-29
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