Beauce-Sartigan is a

regional county municipality The term regional county municipality or RCM (, , MRC) is used in Quebec, Canada to refer to one of 87 county-like political entities. In some older English translations they were called county regional municipality. Regional county municipalit ...

in the

Chaudière-Appalaches Chaudière-Appalaches (, ) is an administrative region in Quebec, Canada. It comprises most of what is historically known as the " Beauce" (; compare with the electoral district of Beauce). It is named for the Chaudière River and the Appalachia ...

region of

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, Canada. The county seat is Saint-Georges. The

Chaudière River The Chaudière River (; French for "Cauldron" or "Boiler"; Western Abenaki, Abenaki: Kik8ntekw) is a river with its source near the Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Town of Lac-Mégantic, in southeast Quebec, Canada. From its source Lake Mégantic in the ...

flows through it. It shares its eastern border with

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, 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

Abenaki The Abenaki ( Abenaki: ''Wαpánahki'') are Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands of Canada and the United States. They are an Algonquian-speaking people and part of the Wabanaki Confederacy. The Eastern Abenaki language was pred ...

Subdivisions

There are 16 subdivisions within the RCM: ;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 * 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:Official Transport Quebec Road Map
/ref> * Autoroutes ** * Principal Highways ** ** * Secondary Highways ** ** ** ** * External Routes ** **

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)

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