Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality

Beauce-Sartigan
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 45°58′N 70°39′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Saint-Georges
Communities	List City Saint-Georges   Municipalities Courcelles-Saint-Évariste Saint-Benoît-Labre Saint-Côme–Linière Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley Saint-Philibert Saint-Simon-les-Mines Saint-Théophile   Parishes Notre-Dame-des-Pins Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset Saint-Martin Saint-René   Villages Lac-Poulin La Guadeloupe
Government [2]
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Luc Lemieux
Area [2][3]
• Total	1,977.00 km^2 (763.32 sq mi)
• Land	1,954.50 km^2 (754.64 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[3]
• Total	52,406
• Density	26.8/km^2 (69/sq mi)
• Change 2011-2016	2.7%
• Dwellings	24,195
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Area codes	418 and 581
Website	www.mrc beaucesartigan.com
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Beauce-Sartigan is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. The county seat is Saint-Georges.^[2]

The Chaudière River flows through it. It shares its eastern border with Maine, United States.

The name of the RCM is linked to the historical region of which it is part, Beauce. Sartigan is a distortion of Mechatigan (or Msakkikhan), the name given to the Chaudière River by the native Abenakis.

Subdivisions

There are 16 subdivisions within the RCM:^[2]

Cities & Towns (1) Saint-Georges

Municipalities (9) Courcelles-Saint-Évariste Saint-Benoît-Labre Saint-Côme–Linière Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley Saint-Philibert Saint-Simon-les-Mines Saint-Théophile

Parishes (4) Notre-Dame-des-Pins Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset Saint-Martin Saint-René

Villages (2) Lac-Poulin La Guadeloupe

Demographics

Ethnicity

Source: 2016 Census ^[3]

• 96.2% White
• 2.8% Aboriginal
• 1.0% Visible Minority

Transportation

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:^[5]

Autoroutes A-73

Principal Highways R-108 R-173

Secondary Highways R-204 R-269 R-271 R-275

External Routes US 201 SR 6

Attractions

• Centre d'art de Saint-Georges (Saint-Georges)
• Centre Marie-Fitzbach (Saint-Georges)
• Magasin général Honoré Grégoire (Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley)
• Musée d'autos antiques Victor-Bélanger (Saint-Côme–Linière)
• Pont couvert Perreault (1928) (Notre-Dame-des-Pins)
• Saint-Georges Airport (Saint-Georges)
• Saint-Paul-de-Cumberland Church (1847) (Saint-Simon-les-Mines)
• Village miniature Baillargeon (Saint-Georges)

See also

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec
• Beauce, Quebec

References

1. "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 141119". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
2. "Répertoire des municipalités: Geographic code 290". www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.
3. "Census Profile, 2016 Census Beauce-Sartigan, Municipalité régionale de comté [Census division], Quebec". Statistics Canada. Retrieved November 28, 2019.
4. "Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality (Code 2429) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada.
5. Official Transport Quebec Road Map

• Commission de toponymie du Québec