Coaticook | |
Settlement Type: | Regional county municipality |
Coordinates: | 45.1333°N -119°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Estrie |
Established Title: | Effective |
Established Date: | January 1, 1982 |
Seat Type: | County seat |
Seat: | Coaticook |
Government Type: | Prefecture |
Leader Title: | Prefect |
Leader Name: | Réjean Masson |
Area Total Km2: | 1,354.70 |
Area Land Km2: | 1,339.80 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 18,497 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Density Km2: | 13.8 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2011-2016 |
Population Blank1: | 1.9% |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Area Code: | 819 |
Coaticook is a regional county municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Coaticook.
On September 3, 1783, as a result of the signing of the Treaty of Paris the American Revolutionary War ended with Great Britain. Quebec's border with the states of Vermont and New Hampshire was established at 45 degrees north latitude.[2] [3]
There are 12 subdivisions within the RCM:
Mother tongue data from Canada 2016 Census[1]
Language | Population | Pct (%) | |
---|---|---|---|
French only | 16,055 | 87.7% | |
English only | 1,850 | 10.1% | |
Both English and French | 185 | 1.0% | |
Other languages | 215 | 1.2% |
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[4]