Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality

Les Appalaches
Regional county municipality
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Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Thetford Mines
Settlements	List Cities Disraeli Thetford Mines   Municipalities Adstock Beaulac-Garthby East Broughton Irlande Kinnear's Mills Saint-Adrien-d'Irlande Sainte-Clotilde-de-Beauce Saint-Fortunat Saint-Jacques-de-Leeds Saint-Jean-de-Brébeuf Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine Saint-Julien Saint-Pierre-de-Broughton   Parishes Disraeli Sacré-Coeur-de-Jésus Sainte-Praxède Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur-de-Wolfestown
Government
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Ghislain Hamel
Area
• Total	1,987.10 km2 (767.22 sq mi)
• Land	1,912.49 km2 (738.42 sq mi)
Population (2016)
• Total	42,346
• Density	22.1/km2 (57/sq mi)
• Change 2011-2016	1.8%
• Dwellings	22,714
Time zone	EST (UTC−5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−4)
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Website	www.mrc desappalaches.ca

Les Appalaches ( Municipalité régionale de comté des Appalaches) is a regional county municipality (RCM) in the Chaudière-Appalaches region in southeastern Quebec, Canada. It was established in 1982 from parts of the historic counties of Beauce, Frontenac, Mégantic, and Wolfe. The county seat and largest city is Thetford Mines.

The name of the RCM is linked to its location in the Appalachian Mountains with Mounts Adstock, Caribou, Oak, and Saint-Adrien being the highest. Until 2008, it was known as L'Amiante Regional County Municipality, because of the importance of asbestos mining in the region (amiante is French for "asbestos").

Subdivisions

There are 19 subdivisions within the RCM:

Cities & Towns (2)

• Disraeli
• Thetford Mines

Municipalities (13)

• Adstock
• Beaulac-Garthby
• East Broughton
• Irlande
• Kinnear's Mills
• Saint-Adrien-d'Irlande
• Sainte-Clotilde-de-Beauce
• Saint-Fortunat
• Saint-Jacques-de-Leeds
• Saint-Jean-de-Brébeuf
• Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine
• Saint-Julien
• Saint-Pierre-de-Broughton

Parishes (4)

• Disraeli
• Sacré-Coeur-de-Jésus
• Sainte-Praxède
• Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur-de-Wolfestown

Demographics

Language

Mother tongue from Canada 2016 Census

Language	Population	Pct (%)
French only	40,675	97.7%
English only	495	1.2%
Both English and French	145	0.3%
Other languages	325	0.8%

Transportation

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:

• Autoroutes
  • None

• Principal Highways
  • Route 108
  • Route 112
  • Route 165

• Secondary Highways
  • Route 216
  • Route 263
  • Route 267
  • Route 269
  • Route 271

• External Routes
  • None

Attractions

• Chemins Craig and Gosford Historic Route
• Serpentine-de-Coleraine Ecological Reserve (Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine)
• Frontenac National Park (Adstock)
• Heritage Kinnear's Mills (Kinnear's Mills)
• Mount Adstock (Adstock)
• Musée minéralogique et minier de Thetford Mines (Thetford Mines)
• Thetford Mines Bike Path (Thetford Mines)

See also

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec

References

• Commission de toponymie du Québec