Les Chenaux (meaning ''the channels'' in French) is a
regional county municipality in central
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
, Canada, in the
Mauricie region. The seat is in
Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes. It is located adjacent on the east of
Trois-Rivières on the
Saint Lawrence River
The St. Lawrence River (french: Fleuve Saint-Laurent, ) is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. Its headwaters begin flowing from Lake Ontario in a (roughly) northeasterly direction, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, connectin ...
. It has a land area of and a population of 17,865 inhabitants in the
Canada 2011 Census.
Its largest community is the parish of
Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel.
Les Chenaux is one of the few regional county municipalities in Quebec that does not constitute its own
census division; instead, it is grouped with Trois-Rivières as the single
census division of Francheville.
Geography
The "Les Chenaux" RCM is an area east of
Trois-Rivières, located between the villages of
Champlain and
Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade
Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade () is a municipality in the Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality, in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada. The town is located near the mouth of the Sainte-Anne River along the ''Chemin du Roy'', ...
on north shore of
St. Lawrence River. The MRC is approximately 40 km in length to about 20 kilometers in depth. The territory is crossed by three rivers flowing from north to south: Champlain River,
Batiscan River and
Sainte-Anne River.
History
The RCM was created in 2002, when the area was realigned to make way for the amalgamations of nearby
Trois-Rivières and
Shawinigan. All of the municipalities, except for
Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel (which came from
Centre-de-la-Mauricie RCM), used to belong to the former
Francheville Regional County Municipality. This RCM was dissolved when six of its municipalities amalgamated with the city of
Trois-Rivières, and
Saint-Étienne-des-Grès was added to the
Maskinongé RCM. The remaining municipalities were grouped into a new regional county called Les Chenaux.
Subdivisions
There are 10 subdivisions within the RCM:
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Batiscan
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Champlain
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Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes
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Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain
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Saint-Stanislas
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Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade
Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade () is a municipality in the Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality, in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada. The town is located near the mouth of the Sainte-Anne River along the ''Chemin du Roy'', ...
;Parishes (4)
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Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel
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Saint-Maurice
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Saint-Narcisse
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Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan
Demography
Transportation
Access routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:
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* Secondary Highways
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* External Routes
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See also
* List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec
* Lordship of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade
* Lordship of Batiscan
* Lordship of Champlain
The Lordship of Champlain was granted in 1664, on the north side of the St. Lawrence River between Trois-Rivières and Quebec City, under the feudal system of New France. Today, the territory of the former manor of Champlain is located in the admi ...
References
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