Dépôt-Échouani, Quebec Explained

Dépôt-Échouani
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Pushpin Map:Canada Western Quebec
Pushpin Label Position:left
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in western Quebec.
Coordinates:47.8333°N -110°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Established Title1:Constituted
Established Date1:January 1, 1986
Area Footnotes:[1]
Area Total Km2:334.50
Area Land Km2:309.02
Population Footnotes:[2]
Population Total:0
Population As Of:2011
Population Density Km2:0.0
Population Blank1 Title:Pop (2006–11)
Population Blank1: N/A
Population Blank2 Title:Dwellings
Population Blank2:0
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Utc Offset Dst:−4

Dépôt-Échouani is an unorganized territory in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. It is the smallest and northernmost of the five unorganized territories in the La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality. Its territory surrounds Échouani Lake and stretches along the western banks of the upper Gatineau River.

The territory is named after the Échouani Depot, a former logging camp of the Canadian International Paper Company near the confluence of the Chouart and Gatineau Rivers, abandoned since 1962. The name is known since the nineteenth century and several variants have been used on maps and plans: Eshwaham (1873), Eskwahani (1924), Eshwahani (1926), Échouani (1933), as well as Eshawan and Askwahani (dates unknown). The exact origin and significance of this name is unknown, but one possibility is that the word comes from Echoam, a tributary of the Gatineau, and this in turn is a derivative of echohamok, which is from the Algonquin language probably meaning "to prepare to leave by water".[3]

Demographics

Population trend:[4]

Notes and References

  1. Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire - Répertoire des municipalités: Dépôt-Échouani
  2. [Canada 2011 Census|Statistics Canada 2011 Census]
  3. Web site: Lac Échouani . 2008-08-26 . Commission de toponymie du Québec . French . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052203/http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/topos/carto.asp?Speci=20311&Latitude=47,75&Longitude=-75,7&Zoom=1700 . 2016-03-04 . dead .
  4. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census