Saguenay County, Quebec is an historical

county A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...

in Quebec. It generally consisted of all of

Quebec east Quebec East (also known as Québec-Est and Québec East) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 2004. While its boundaries changed over the decades, it was essen ...

Tadoussac Tadoussac () is a village municipality in La Haute-Côte-Nord RCM (Regional County Municipality), on the north shore of the maritime section of the estuary of St. Lawrence river, in Côte-Nord region, Quebec, Canada. Geography Tadoussac is ...

and north of the

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. The

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was also Tadoussac. Today, the county is found in the

Regional County Municipalities 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 ...

of La Haute-Côte-Nord, Manicouagan, Sept-Rivières, Minganie and

Basse-Côte-Nord Basse-Côte-Nord Territory (, , meaning "lower north shore") was a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) in eastern Quebec, Canada. The territory, whose geographical code was 982, was formed in 2002 when it separated from th ...

. Reports from provincial surveyors regarding the forest wealth of Canada for Quebec between 1887 and 1893, published by the Canadian Department of Agriculture in 1895, included 20 entries on rivers within Saguenay County. Most of these rivers had

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trees near them.

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