La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality

La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 46°32′N 76°03′W / 46.533°N 76.050°W / 46.533; -76.050Coordinates: 46°32′N 76°03′W / 46.533°N 76.050°W / 46.533; -76.050[1]
Country  Canada
Province  Quebec
Region Outaouais
Effective January 1, 1983
County seat Gracefield
Government[2]
 • Type Prefecture
 • Prefect Chantal Lamarche
Area[2][3]
 • Total 13,931.50 km2 (5,378.98 sq mi)
 • Land 12,477.19 km2 (4,817.47 sq mi)
Population (2011)[3]
 • Total 20,530
 • Density 1.6/km2 (4/sq mi)
 • Pop 2006-2011 Increase 0.1%
 • Dwellings 14,294
Time zone UTC−5 (EST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC−4 (EDT)
Area code(s) 819
Website www.mrcvg.qc.ca

La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau (The Valley of the Gatineau) is a regional county municipality in the Outaouais region of western Quebec, Canada. The seat is in Gracefield. It is named for its location straddling the Gatineau River north of Low. It was incorporated on January 1, 1983.

It consists of two cities, fifteen municipalities, and five unorganized territories. The area also has two Algonquin communities, Rapid Lake in the heart of the La Vérendrye Wildlife Reserve and Kitigan Zibi.

The territory of the Gatineau Valley is bordered by other Outaouais RCMs: to the east by the Antoine-Labelle Regional County Municipality, to the southeast by Papineau RCM, to the south by the Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais RCM and to the west by the Pontiac Regional County Municipality. To the north is La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region. Numerous lakes abound in area, including everything from the small Lac des Pins [4] to 31 Mile Lake.[5]

The administrative centre for La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau is north of Kitigan Zibi in Maniwaki, previously the county seat of historic Gatineau County.

Subdivisions

There are 22 subdivisions within the RCM:[2]

Transportation

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Reference number 141085 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French)
  2. 1 2 3 Geographic code 830 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (in French)
  3. 1 2 "(Code 2483) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.
  4. ↑ Lac des Pins, Aumond, Quebec
  5. ↑ http://www.wilkinson-chalet.com/lake.shtml
  6. ↑ Official Transport Quebec Road Map



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