Minganie Regional County Municipality

Minganie is a regional county municipality in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. It includes Anticosti Island. Its seat is Havre-Saint-Pierre.

Minganie
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 50°14′N 63°36′W[1]
Country Canada
Province Quebec
RegionCôte-Nord
EffectiveJanuary 1, 1982
County seatHavre-Saint-Pierre
Government
 • TypePrefecture
 • PrefectJulien Boudreau
Area
 • Total73,725.10 km2 (28,465.42 sq mi)
 • Land56,116.77 km2 (21,666.81 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[3][4]
 • Total6,582
 • Density0.1/km2 (0.3/sq mi)
 • Pop 2006-2011
 3.0%
 • Dwellings
3,038
Time zoneUTC−5 (EST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
Area code(s)418 and 581
Websitewww.mrc.minganie.org

It has an area of 73,725.10 square kilometres (28,465.42 sq mi) according to Quebec's Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire (which includes coastal, lake, and river water territory and also disputed land within Labrador), or a land area of 56,116.77 square kilometres (21,666.81 sq mi) according to Statistics Canada. The population from the Canada 2011 Census was 6,582[4] and in 2016 it was 11,323.[5] The majority live in Havre-Saint-Pierre.[2]

Minganie and the neighbouring Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality are grouped into the single census division of Minganie—Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent (known as Minganie–Basse-Côte-Nord before 2010). The combined population at the Canada 2011 Census was 11,708.[3]

Until 2002, Minganie RCM encompassed the entire lower north shore right up to Blanc-Sablon. In 2002, it lost all the coastal communities east of the Natashquan River when the Basse-Côte-Nord Territory was formed. In July 2010, the RCM lost another 44% of its territory when the (uninhabited) Petit-Mécatina unorganized territory was transferred to the newly created Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, which superseded Basse-Côte-Nord.[6]

Subdivisions

There are 9 subdivisions and 2 native reserves within the RCM:[2]

Transportation

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[7]

River basins
Falls on the Manitou River
Natashquan River near its mouth

There are a number of large rivers that flow in a generally north-south direction through Minganie to enter the Gulf. Near the coast the river basins tend to narrow in towards the river mouth, and between their mouths are areas that drain into the Gulf through smaller streams. From west to east, the larger river basins, which may cover parts of Labrador, Sept-Rivières or Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent, are:[8]

RiverBasin sizeMouth coordinatesMap link
km2sq. mile
Bouleau684 264 50.281944°N 65.514722°W / 50.281944; -65.514722 EFPVK
Sault Plat87.7 33.9 50.292778°N 65.443056°W / 50.292778; -65.443056 EIBXJ
Tortue793 30650.300833°N 65.374167°W / 50.300833; -65.374167EIHTJ
Manitou2,653 1,02450.297778°N 65.241389°W / 50.297778; -65.241389EHDEJ
Chaloupe202 7850.293056°N 65.121944°W / 50.293056; -65.121944EFVQV
Sheldrake1,183 45750.271667°N 64.929167°W / 50.271667; -64.929167EIDHB
Tonnerre692 26750.273611°N 64.779444°W / 50.273611; -64.779444EIHQL
Jupitagon223 8650.287222°N 64.584444°W / 50.287222; -64.584444EGURN
Magpie7,646 2,95250.319722°N 64.458889°W / 50.319722; -64.458889EHCNP
Saint-Jean5,599 2,16250.283333°N 64.334444°W / 50.283333; -64.334444EIACM
Mingan2,321 89650.295833°N 63.989444°W / 50.295833; -63.989444EHGSU
Romaine14,510 5,60050.302222°N 63.803333°W / 50.302222; -63.803333EHXDD
Ours260 10050.298333°N 63.058056°W / 50.298333; -63.058056EHMZM
Corneille563 21750.2844444°N 62.8980556°W / 50.2844444; -62.8980556EFZNQ
Piashti386 14950.2863889°N 62.8052778°W / 50.2863889; -62.8052778EHQDT
Quetachou1,017 39350.3102778°N 62.7238889°W / 50.3102778; -62.7238889EHTZO
Véronique111 4350.3108333°N 62.7033333°W / 50.3108333; -62.7033333EIKWH
Watshishou1,044 40350.2694444°N 62.6925°W / 50.2694444; -62.6925EIMMB
Little Watshishou413 15950.2719444°N 62.6316667°W / 50.2719444; -62.6316667EIMMC
Pashashibou154 5950.2775°N 62.3486111°W / 50.2775; -62.3486111EHOAQ
Nabisipi2,086 80550.2330556°N 62.2205556°W / 50.2330556; -62.2205556EHJDV
Aguanish5,777 2,23150.2180556°N 62.0861111°W / 50.2180556; -62.0861111EKVRE
Natashquan16,005 6,18050.1186111°N 61.8072222°W / 50.1186111; -61.8072222EHJNH

See also

References
  1. Reference number 141053 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French)
  2. Geographic code 981 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (in French)
  3. "(Code 2498) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.
  4. Derived indirectly from Minganie—Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent census division Hierarchy data, by summing up data for Aguanish, Baie-Johan-Beetz, Havre-Saint-Pierre, L'Île-d'Anticosti, Lac-Jérôme, Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan, Mingan, Natashquan (reserve), Natashquan (township), Rivière-Saint-Jean and Rivière-au-Tonnerre census subdivisions.
  5. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Minganie--Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent, Census division [Census division], Quebec". Statistics Canada. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
  6. Audrée Soucy (July 2010), "Municipalité régionale de comté (MRC)" (PDF), Modifications aux municipalités du Québec, Quebec: Institut de la statistique du Québec, ISSN 1715-6408, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-12, retrieved 2010-09-17
  7. Official Transport Quebec Road Map
  8. Portrait préliminaire de la zone de gestion intégrée de l'eau par bassin versant Duplessis (PDF) (in French), OBV Duplessis, April 2015, p. 20, retrieved 2019-09-29


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