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Beauce Sartigan Regional County Municipality

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Country
  
County seat
  
Population
  
50,962 (2011)

Province
  
Effective
  
January 1, 1982

Local time
  
Tuesday 11:32 PM

Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality

Communities
  
ListCitySaint-Georges MunicipalitiesSaint-Benoît-LabreSaint-Côme–LinièreSaint-Éphrem-de-BeauceSaint-Évariste-de-ForsythSaint-Gédéon-de-BeauceSaint-Honoré-de-ShenleySaint-PhilibertSaint-Simon-les-MinesSaint-Théophile ParishesNotre-Dame-des-PinsSaint-Hilaire-de-DorsetSaint-MartinSaint-René VillagesLac-PoulinLa Guadeloupe

Weather
  
3°C, Wind SE at 16 km/h, 67% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Parc des Sept‑Chutes, Village miniature Baillargeon, Musée de L'auto Victor Bél

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

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Map of Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality, QC, Canada

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:

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
  • Access Routes

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

    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)
  • References

    Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality Wikipedia


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