Charny () is a district (''secteur'') within the Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Est borough of the city of Lévis, Quebec. It is located on the south shore of the

St. Lawrence River The St. Lawrence River (, ) is a large international river in the middle latitudes of North America connecting the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic Ocean. Its waters flow in a northeasterly direction from Lake Ontario to the Gulf of St. Lawren ...

, south of

Quebec City Quebec City is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Census Metropolitan Area (including surrounding communities) had a populati ...

. Formerly an independent city, Charny was merged with

Lévis Lévis () is a city in eastern Quebec, Canada, located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, opposite Quebec City. A ferry links Old Quebec with Old Lévis, and two bridges, the Quebec Bridge and the Pierre-Laporte Bridge, connect we ...

on January 1, 2002.

History

Over the last century, Charny has been tremendously influenced socially and economically by the

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which maintains a major national train yard in the town, Joffre Yard. The roundhouse in the yard was designated a

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in 1992. Charny expanded in population during the late 1980s and early 1990s when new neighbourhoods were surveyed and houses were built. Charny has reached

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al exposure many times over the last twenty years struggling with Alex Couture Inc., a plant which buys animal corpses in order to recycle them, producing salable by-products. The plant generated bad smells and odours throughout the city. The plant has installed filters to screen out any odours. There is a waterfall that is located in the town on 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 ...

. It offers a beautiful scene as well as a long narrow suspension bridge that one can walk across to get to the other side of the river ( Saint-Rédempteur).

Demographics

Population according to

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: *Population: 10,367 *% Change 2001-2006: -1.3 *Dwellings: 4,686 *Density per km²: 1,284.6 *Area per km²: 8.07

Education

Charny is within the

Commission scolaire des Navigateurs Commission scolaire des Navigateurs was a French-language school district in Lévis, Quebec, Canada. Its address was in Saint-Romuald, a former town annexed to Lévis. The chair of the school board was Jérôme Demers, and the director genera ...

, which operates the École secondaire les Etchemins.

References

Neighbourhoods in Lévis, Quebec Former municipalities in Quebec Populated places disestablished in 2002 {{ChaudièreAppalaches-geo-stub