An agglomeration, or urban agglomeration, is an
administrative division of Quebec at the local level that may group together a number of municipalities which were abolished as independent entities on 1 January 2002 but
reconstituted on 1 January 2006.
Urban agglomerations have certain powers that would ordinarily be exercised by individual municipalities.
History
The
2000–06 municipal reorganization in Quebec proved to be controversial in several municipalities, and in the aftermath, several municipalities voted in a
2004 referendum to reverse their amalgamation. However the supralocal urban agglomeration level of government was retained over each formerly merged region.
Definition
The ''Act respecting the exercise of certain municipal powers in certain urban agglomerations'' defines the expression ''urban agglomeration'' as follows.
:An urban agglomeration corresponds to the territory, as it exists on 17 December 2004, of Ville de Montréal, Ville de Québec, Ville de Longueuil, Ville de Mont-Laurier, Ville de La Tuque, Municipalité des Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Ville de Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Ville de Mont-Tremblant, Ville de Cookshire-Eaton, Ville de Rivière-Rouge or Ville de Sainte-Marguerite–Estérel.
One municipality in each agglomeration is known as the ''central municipality'' and has special status under the ''Act''. The others are called ''related municipalities''.
The ''Act'' defines the powers exercised by the agglomeration and those exercised by the reconstituted municipalities, known as ''agglomeration powers'' (''compétences d'agglomération'') and ''local powers'' (''compétences de proximité'').
Agglomeration councils
Agglomeration powers are exercised by ''agglomeration councils'' (''conseils d'agglomération'').
Agglomeration powers
These are defined b
statute
Many governmental functions are performed by the central city in each agglomeration; for example, the Montreal city police (
SPVM) have jurisdiction in the neighboring communities.
Local powers
A list of these can be found on the websit
of the Ministère des Affaires municipales et régionales.
List of constituent municipalities
For each agglomeration, the legally designated central municipality appears first.
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Urban agglomeration of Montreal
The urban agglomeration of Montreal (, ) is an Urban agglomerations of Quebec, urban agglomeration in Quebec, Canada. Coextensive with the List of regions of Quebec, administrative region of Montreal, it is a territory equivalent to a regional c ...
(administered by the Montreal Agglomeration Council)
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Ville de Montréal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cit ...
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Ville de Baie-D'Urfé
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Ville de Beaconsfield
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Ville de Côte Saint-Luc
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Ville de Dollard-Des-Ormeaux
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Ville de Dorval
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Ville de Hampstead
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Ville de Kirkland
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Ville de L'Île-Dorval
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Ville de Montréal-Est
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Ville de Montréal-Ouest
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Ville de Mont-Royal
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Ville de Pointe-Claire
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Ville de Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue
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Village de Senneville
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Ville de Westmount
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Urban agglomeration of Quebec City
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Ville de Québec
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Ville de L'Ancienne-Lorette
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Ville de Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures
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Urban agglomeration of Longueuil
The urban agglomeration of Longueuil was created on January 1, 2006 as a result of the 2000–06 municipal reorganization in Quebec#Calls for de-amalgamation, de-amalgamation process brought upon by the Jean Charest, Charest government. It encomp ...
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Ville de Longueuil
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Ville de Boucherville
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Ville de Brossard
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Ville de Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville
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Ville de Saint-Lambert
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Urban agglomeration of Mont-Laurier
**Ville de
Mont-Laurier
Mont-Laurier () is a town and incorporated municipality in western Quebec, Canada, located on the banks of the Lièvre River (''Rivière du Lièvre''), a tributary of the Ottawa River. Known as the "Capital of the Haute-Laurentides", the motto o ...
**Municipalité de
Saint-Aimé-du-Lac-des-Îles
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Urban agglomeration of La Tuque
**Ville de
La Tuque
**Municipalité de
La Bostonnais
**Municipalité de
Lac-Édouard
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Urban agglomeration of Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine
**Municipalité des
Îles-de-la-Madeleine
**Municipalité de
Grosse-Île
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Urban agglomeration of Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts
**Ville de
Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts
Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts () is a town in the province of Quebec, Canada, in the regional county municipality of Les Laurentides in the administrative region of Laurentides, also known as the "Laurentians" or the Laurentian Mountains (in English) ...
**Municipalité d'
Ivry-sur-le-Lac
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Urban agglomeration of Mont-Tremblant
**Ville de
Mont-Tremblant
Mont-Tremblant () is a List of cities in Canada, city in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec, Canada, approximately northwest of Montreal and northeast of Ottawa, Ontario. The current municipality with city status was formed in 2000. Mont-Tremb ...
**Municipalité de
Lac-Tremblant-Nord
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Urban agglomeration of Cookshire-Eaton
**Ville de
Cookshire-Eaton
**Municipalité de
Newport
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Urban agglomeration of Rivière-Rouge
**Ville de
Rivière-Rouge
**Municipalité de
La Macaza
La Macaza () is a municipality and village in the province of Quebec, Canada. The village is located in the Laurentian Mountains, in the Laurentides (region), Laurentian region, in Antoine-Labelle Regional County Municipality. Its population was ...
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Urban agglomeration of Sainte-Marguerite–Estérel
**Ville de
Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson
**Ville d'
Estérel
See also
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Local government in Quebec
The local municipality () is the lowest unit of local government in Quebec, Canada and is distinguished from the higher-level regional county municipality, or RCM, a municipal government at the supralocal level.
Eight municipalities are further s ...
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Municipal reorganization in Quebec
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
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Metropolitan Community (Quebec)
References
External links
Act respecting the exercise of certain municipal powers in certain urban agglomerations
{{Subdivisions of Quebec