Country Canada RCM Abitibi-Ouest Constituted February 19, 1938 Area 138.9 km² Province Québec | Region Abitibi-Témiscamingue Settled 1917 Time zone EST (UTC−5) Population 289 (2011) Area code 819 | |
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Chazel is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality. It had a population of 289 in the Canada 2011 Census.
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Map of Chazel, QC, Canada
The municipality was incorporated on February 19, 1938, as the Municipality of Saint-Janvier, and commonly known as Saint-Janvier-de-Chazel. In 1991, it was renamed to Chazel, named after Guillaume Chazel, a French soldier who died in 1725 near Cape Breton.
Municipal council
References
Chazel, Quebec Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA