La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality
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La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau (, ''The Valley of the Gatineau'') 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
Outaouais Outaouais (, ; also commonly called The Outaouais) is a region of western Quebec, Canada. It includes the city of Gatineau, the municipality of Val-des-Monts, the municipality of Cantley, Quebec, Cantley and the Papineau Regional County Municipal ...
region of western
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, Canada. The seat is in Gracefield. It was incorporated on January 1, 1983 and was named for its location straddling the Gatineau River north of Low. 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
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, 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 La Vallée-de-l'Or () is a regional county municipality in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region in Northwestern Quebec, Canada. The seat is in Val-d'Or. It is named for its gold deposits in the Harricana River and Bell River valleys. History Ori ...
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region. Numerous lakes abound in area, including everything from the small Lac des Pins to 31 Mile Lake. The administrative centre for La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau is north of Kitigan Zibi in Maniwaki, previously the
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Gatineau County.


Subdivisions

There are 22 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (2) * Gracefield * Maniwaki ;Municipalities (13) * Blue Sea * Bois-Franc * Bouchette * Cayamant * Déléage *
Denholm Denholm is a small village located between Jedburgh and Hawick in the Scottish Borders region of Scotland, UK. The estimated population of Denholm is 600. There is a village green in the centre. It lies in the valley of the River Teviot. Denho ...
* Egan-Sud * Grand-Remous * Kazabazua * Lac-Sainte-Marie * Messines * Montcerf-Lytton * Sainte-Thérèse-de-la-Gatineau ;Townships (2) * Aumond * Low ;Unorganized Territory (5) * Cascades-Malignes * Dépôt-Échouani * Lac-Lenôtre * Lac-Moselle * Lac-Pythonga ;First Nation Reserve (2)
* Kitigan Zibi * Rapid Lake


Transportation


Access routes

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 ** None * Principal highways ** ** ** * Secondary highways ** None


See also

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List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec This is a list of the regional county municipalities (RCM or MRC) and equivalent territories (TE) in the province of Quebec, Canada. They are given along with their geographical codes as specified by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Region ...


References


External links


Official website
(in French)
Gatineau Valley Tourism site


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