Matawinie () 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 region of
Lanaudière
Lanaudière (, ) is one of the seventeen administrative regions of Quebec, Canada, situated immediately to the northeast of Montreal. It has a total population ( 2016 Census) of 494,796 inhabitants, an increase of 4.9% over the 2011 census.
Geogr ...
in southwestern
Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...
,
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun ...
. Its seat is
Rawdon. The population according to the
2021 Canadian Census
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canada, Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, whic ...
was 55,500.
Subdivisions
There are 27 subdivisions within the RCM:
;Municipalities (14)
*
Chertsey
Chertsey is a town in the Borough of Runnymede, Surrey, England, southwest of central London. It grew up around Chertsey Abbey, founded in AD 666 by Earconwald, St Erkenwald, and gained a municipal charter, market charter from Henry I of Engla ...
*
Entrelacs
*
Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci
*
Rawdon
*
Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez
*
Sainte-Béatrix
*
Saint-Côme
*
Saint-Donat
*
Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie
Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie () is a municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Matawinie Regional County Municipality.
Geography
The territory of Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie extends along the Noire River valley in ...
*
Saint-Félix-de-Valois
*
Saint-Jean-de-Matha
*
Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare
*
Saint-Michel-des-Saints
*
Saint-Zénon
;Parishes (1)
*
Saint-Damien
;Unorganized Territory (12)
*
Baie-Atibenne
*
Baie-de-la-Bouteille
*
Baie-Obaoca
*
Lac-Cabasta
*
Lac-des-Dix-Milles
*
Lac-Devenyns
*
Lac-du-Taureau
*
Lac-Legendre
*
Lac-Matawin
*
Lac-Minaki
*
Lac-Santé
*
Saint-Guillaume-Nord
;First Nations reserve (1)
*
Manawan
Demographics
Population
Language
French and
Atikamekw
The Atikamekw are an Indigenous people in Canada. Their historic territory, ('Our Land'), is in the upper Saint-Maurice River valley of Quebec (about north of Montreal). One of the main communities is Manawan, about northeast of Montreal. ...
are the main languages.
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
**
**
**
**
**
**
* External Routes
** None
See also
*
References
Répertoire des municipalités du Québec
External links
Matawinie MRC - official website
{{Authority control