Local municipalities
All municipalities (except cities), whether township, village, parish, or unspecified ones, are functionally and legally identical. The only difference is that the designation might serve to disambiguate between otherwise identically named municipalities, often neighbouring ones. Many such cases have had their names changed, or merged with the identically named nearby municipality since the 1950s, such as the former Township of Granby and City of Granby merging and becoming the Town of Granby in 2007. Municipalities are governed primarily by the ''Code municipal du Québec'' (Municipal Code of Québec, R.S.Q. c. C-27.1), whereas cities and towns are governed by the ''Loi sur les cités et villes'' (Cities and Towns Act, R.S.Q. c. C-19) as well as (in the case of the older ones) various individual charters. The very largest communities in Quebec are colloquially called cities; however there are currently no municipalities under the province's current legal system classified as cities. Quebec's government uses the English term ''town'' as the translation for the French term ''ville'', and ''township'' for ''canton''. The least-populated towns in Quebec ( Barkmere, with a population of about 60, or L'Île-Dorval, with less than 10) are much smaller than the most populous municipalities of other types ( Saint-Charles-Borromée and Sainte-Sophie, each with populations of over 13,300). The title city ( code=C) still legally exists, with a few minor differences from that of ''ville''. However it is moot since there are no longer any cities in existence. Dorval and Côte Saint-Luc had the status of city when they were amalgamated intoAboriginal local municipal units
Prior to 2004, there was a single code, TR, to cover the modern-day TC and TK. When the distinction between TC and TK was introduced, it was made retroactive to 1984, date of the federal Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act (S.C. 1984, c. 18).Territories equivalent to local municipalities
Submunicipal units
There is also a different kind of submunicipal unit, unconstituted localities, which is defined and tracked not by the Quebec Ministry of Municipal Affairs but by Statistics Canada.Supralocal units
See also
* Administrative divisions of QuebecReferences
Notes
External links
; Quebec provincial legislation