Le Haut-Saint-François | |
Settlement Type: | Regional county municipality |
Coordinates: | 45.4667°N -103°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Established Title: | Effective |
Established Date: | January 1, 1982 |
Seat Type: | County seat |
Seat: | Cookshire-Eaton |
Government Footnotes: | [1] |
Government Type: | Prefecture |
Leader Title: | Prefect |
Leader Name: | Robert G. Roy |
Area Total Km2: | 2,307.50 |
Area Land Km2: | 2,273.39 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 22,335 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Density Km2: | 9.8 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2011-2016 |
Population Blank1: | 1.2% |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Area Code: | 819 |
Le Haut-Saint-François (in French pronounced as /lə o sɛ̃ fʁɑ̃swa/; The Upper Saint-François [St. Francis]) is a regional county municipality in southeastern Quebec, Canada in the Estrie region. Its seat is in Cookshire-Eaton, and it is named for the Saint-François River which runs through the RCM.
There are 14 subdivisions within the RCM:[1]
Mother tongue data, from Canada 2016 Census:[2]
Language | Population | Pct (%) | |
---|---|---|---|
French only | 19,580 | 88.3% | |
English only | 2,195 | 9.9% | |
Both English and French | 205 | 0.9% | |
Other languages | 200 | 0.9% |
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[3]