Bonaventure | |
Settlement Type: | Regional county municipality |
Coordinates: | 48.05°N -94°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine |
Established Title: | Effective |
Established Date: | April 8, 1981 |
Seat Type: | County seat |
Seat: | New Carlisle |
Government Type: | Prefecture |
Leader Title: | Prefect |
Leader Name: | Jean-Guy Poirier |
Area Total Km2: | 4401.70 |
Area Land Km2: | 4379.40 |
Population Total: | 17,660 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Density Km2: | 4.0 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2011-2016 |
Population Blank1: | 1.9% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 8,744 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Area Codes: | 418 and 581 |
Bonaventure is a regional county municipality in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of eastern Quebec, Canada, on the Gaspé Peninsula. Its seat is New Carlisle.
There are 14 subdivisions within the RCM:
Canada Census Mother Tongue - Bonaventure Regional County Municipality, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
14,700 | 1.4% | 84.3% | 2,515 | 4.9% | 14.4% | 160 | 10.3% | 0.82% | 70 | 40.0% | 0.4% | ||||||||
14,915 | 1.7% | 84.00% | 2,645 | 5.4% | 14.90% | 145 | 107.1% | 0.82% | 50 | 75.0% | 0.28% | ||||||||
14,665 | 3.3% | 82.71% | 2,795 | 10.7% | 15.76% | 70 | 74.1% | 0.40% | 200 | 566.7% | 1.13% | ||||||||
15,170 | 7.9% | 84.30% | 2,525 | 10.5% | 14.03% | 270 | 157.1% | 1.50% | 30 | 100.0% | 0.17% | ||||||||
16,470 | n/a | 84.85% | 2,820 | n/a | 14.53% | 105 | n/a | 0.54% | 15 | n/a | 0.08% |
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[1]