Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality

Beauce-Sartigan
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 45°58′N 70°39′W / 45.967°N 70.650°WCoordinates: 45°58′N 70°39′W / 45.967°N 70.650°W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Saint-Georges
Communities	List City Saint-Georges   Municipalities Saint-Benoît-Labre Saint-Côme–Linière Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce Saint-Évariste-de-Forsyth Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley Saint-Philibert Saint-Simon-les-Mines Saint-Théophile   Parishes Notre-Dame-des-Pins Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset Saint-Martin Saint-René   Villages Lac-Poulin La Guadeloupe
Government[2]
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Luc Lemieux
Area[2][3]
• Total	1,977.00 km^2 (763.32 sq mi)
• Land	1,954.08 km^2 (754.47 sq mi)
Population (2011)[3]
• Total	50,962
• Density	26.1/km^2 (68/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	2.7%
• Dwellings	23,410
Time zone	EST (UTC−5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−4)
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Website	www.mrc beaucesartigan.com

Beauce-Sartigan is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. The county seat is Saint-Georges.^[2]

The Chaudière River flows through it. It shares its eastern border with Maine, United States.

The name of the RCM is linked to the historical region of which it is part, Beauce. Sartigan is a distortion of Mechatigan (or Msakkikhan), the name given to the Chaudière River by the native Abenakis.

Subdivisions

There are 16 subdivisions within the RCM:^[2]

Cities & Towns (1) Saint-Georges

Municipalities (9) Saint-Benoît-Labre Saint-Côme–Linière Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce Saint-Évariste-de-Forsyth Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce

Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley Saint-Philibert Saint-Simon-les-Mines Saint-Théophile

Parishes (4) Notre-Dame-des-Pins Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset Saint-Martin Saint-René

Villages (2) Lac-Poulin La Guadeloupe

Demographics

(Statistics Canada, 2006)

• Population change (2001-2006): 3.6%
• Dwellings: 21,867
• National rank in terms of population: 117
• Provincial rank in terms of population: 31

People

• 99.3% White
• 0.4% Aboriginal
• 0.3% Visible Minority

Transportation

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:^[4]

Autoroutes A-73

Principal Highways Route 108 Route 173

Secondary Highways Route 204 Route 269 Route 271 Route 275

External Routes US 201 SR 6

Attractions

• Centre d'art de Saint-Georges (Saint-Georges)
• Centre Marie-Fitzbach (Saint-Georges)
• Magasin général Honoré Grégoire (Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley)
• Musée d'autos antiques Victor-Bélanger (Saint-Côme–Linière)
• Pont couvert Perreault (1928) (Notre-Dame-des-Pins)
• Saint-Georges Airport (Saint-Georges)
• Saint-Paul-de-Cumberland Church (1847) (Saint-Simon-les-Mines)
• Village miniature Baillargeon (Saint-Georges)

See also

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec
• Beauce, Quebec

References

1. Reference number 141119 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (French)
2. Geographic code 290 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (French)
3. "(Code 2429) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.
4. Official Transport Quebec Road Map

• Commission de toponymie du Québec