La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality
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| La Vallée-de-l'Or | |
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| Regional county municipality | |
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| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  Quebec |
| Region | Abitibi-Témiscamingue |
| Effective | April 8, 1981 |
| County seat | Val-d'Or |
| Government[2] | |
| • Type | Prefecture |
| • Prefect | Fernand Trahan |
| Area[2][3] | |
| • Total | 27,149.30 km2 (10,482.40 sq mi) |
| • Land | 24,294.28 km2 (9,380.07 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[3] | |
| • Total | 42,896 |
| • Density | 1.8/km2 (5/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2006-2011 |  2.4% |
| • Dwellings | 19,532 |
| Time zone | EST (UTC−5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) |
| Area code(s) | 819 |
| Website | www |
La Vallée-de-l'Or (The Golden Valley) 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.
Before October 11, 2003, it was known simply as Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality.[4]
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Subdivisions
There are 10 subdivisions within the RCM:[2]
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Demographics
Population
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Language
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| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | |||||
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2011
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42,340
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39,360 | 3.6% |
92.96% | 1,205 | 25.5% |
2.85% | 290 | 1.8% |
0.68% | 1,485 |  27.7% |
3.51% | |||||
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2006
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41,275
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37,975 | 2.1% |
92.00% | 960 | 5.4% |
2.33% | 285 | 5.0% |
0.69% | 2,055 | 18.4% |
4.98% | |||||
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2001
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41,845
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38,795 | 4.4% |
92.71% | 1,015 | 19.8% |
2.43% | 300 | 15.5% |
0.72% | 1,735 | 8.1% |
4.15% | |||||
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1996
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43,780
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40,565 | n/a | 92.66% | 1,265 | n/a | 2.89% | 355 | n/a | 0.81% | 1,595 | n/a | 3.64% | |||||
Transportation
Access Routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[8]
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See also
References
- ↑ Reference number 376772 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (French)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Geographic code 890 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (French)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality, Quebec Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census
- ↑ Official Transport Quebec Road Map
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