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Country
  
Canada

RCM
  
La Nouvelle-Beauce

Time zone
  
EST (UTC−5)

Area
  
32.1 km²

Province
  
Québec

Region
  
Chaudière-Appalaches

Constituted
  
March 29, 1995

Postal code(s)
  
G0S 3G0

Population
  
2,089 (2011)

Local time
  
Saturday 1:24 AM

Scott, Quebec

Weather
  
-1°C, Wind W at 11 km/h, 100% Humidity

Scott is a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de la Nouvelle-Beauce in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 1,812 as of 2009.

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Map of Scott, QC, Canada

Name

Scott can be known under several names, due to a history of name changes, place names, territory breakups, and amalgamations.

  • Taschereau-Fortier, religious parish (1824), then territory detached from the parish municipality of Saint-Maxime (1933); it formed the rural part of Scott's territory until 1995. It was named after Gabriel-Elzéar Taschereau and Richard-Achille Fortier, two seigneurs who have had property rights on the territory.
  • Saint-Maxime, religious and civil parish (1895), changed name to Scott in 1978. Named after Reverend Maxime Fillion, first priest born on the territory.
  • Saint-Maxime-de-Scott, never an official name of the municipality.
  • Scott-Jonction, Lévis and Kennebec Railway (1875), then Quebec Central Railway station, located southeast of Saint-Maxime. It is named after Charles Armstrong Scott, who built the first section of the Lévis and Kennebec Railway. Although it was never an official name of the municipality, it has often been referred to as such.
  • Scott, named after the train station. Official name of the urban part of the municipality since 1978 and the new territory constituted in 1995 following the amalgamation with Taschereau-Fortier.
  • References

    Scott, Quebec Wikipedia