Témiscouata | |
Settlement Type: | Regional county municipality |
Coordinates: | 47.6833°N -121°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
Established Title: | Effective |
Established Date: | January 1, 1982 |
Seat Type: | County seat |
Seat: | Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac |
Government Type: | Prefecture |
Leader Title: | Prefect |
Leader Name: | Serge Pelletier |
Area Total Km2: | 4,025.80 |
Area Land Km2: | 3,904.03 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 19,574 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Density Km2: | 5.0 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2011-2016 |
Population Blank1: | 4.9% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 10,778 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
Témiscouata is a regional county municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. It is located southeast of Rivière-du-Loup, bordering New Brunswick, and is centred on Lake Témiscouata. Its seat is Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac.
Major industries include forestry, agriculture and maple syrup products.
There are 19 subdivisions within the RCM:
Canada Census Mother Tongue - Témiscouata Regional County Municipality, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
19,025 | 9.9% | 98.99% | 100 | 4.8% | 0.52% | 35 | 0.0% | 0.18% | 60 | 33.3% | 0.31% | ||||||||
20,115 | 3.8% | 99.09% | 105 | 4.5% | 0.52% | 35 | 30.0% | 0.17% | 45 | 70.0% | 0.22% | ||||||||
20,915 | 4.1% | 98.56% | 110 | 175.0% | 0.52% | 50 | 25.0% | 0.24% | 145 | 480.0% | 0.68% | ||||||||
21,805 | 3.2% | 99.52% | 40 | 42.9% | 0.18% | 40 | 33.3% | 0.18% | 25 | n/a% | 0.11% | ||||||||
22,525 | n/a | 99.56% | 70 | n/a | 0.31% | 30 | n/a | 0.13% | 0 | n/a | 0.00% |
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[2]