Arthabaska Regional County Municipality

Coordinates: 45°55′N 72°05′W / 45.917°N 72.083°W

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish. (June 2015) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the Spanish article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 5,024 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at [[:es:Arthabaska (municipio regional de condado)]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|es|Arthabaska (municipio regional de condado)}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Arthabaska
819
Website	www.mrc-arthabaska.qc.ca
^[4]

Arthabaska Regional County Municipality is a regional county municipality located in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec. Its seat is Victoriaville.^[2]

Subdivisions

There are 22 subdivisions within the RCM:^[2]

Cities & Towns (4)

Municipalities (13)

Parishes (4)

Saint-Christophe-d'Arthabaska
Sainte-Séraphine
Saint-Rosaire
Saints-Martyrs-Canadiens

Townships (1)

Ham-Nord

Demographics

Mother tongue from

2016 Canadian Census^[3]

Language	Population	Pct (%)
French only	69,175	97.1%
English only	520	0.7%
Both English and French	215	0.3%
Other languages	1,335	1.9%

Attractions

Cinq-Chicots School of the Row (Saint-Christophe-d'Arthabaska)
LaPierre Mill (Norbertville)
Laurier Museum (Victoriaville)
Marie-Victorin Park (Kingsey Falls)
Postes Pavilion Hotel (Victoriaville)
Rivière Nicolet Trout Fishing Post (Notre-Dame-de-Ham)
Saint-Michel Mountain (Victoriaville)
St-Médard Church (1874) (Warwick)

Transportation

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[5]

Autoroutes
- A-20 (TCH)
- A-955

Principal Highways
- R-116
- R-122
- R-161
- R-162
- R-165

Secondary Highways
- R-216
- R-218
- R-255
- R-261
- R-263

External Routes
- None

See also

List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec

References

^ "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 141121". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Répertoire des municipalités: Geographic code 390". www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Arthabaska, Municipalité régionale de comté [Census division], Quebec". Statistics Canada. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
^ "Arthabaska Regional County Municipality (Code 2439) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada.
^ Official Transport Quebec Road Map

External links

v t e Administrative divisions of Centre-du-Québec (Region 17)
Regional county municipalities and equivalent territories	L'Érable Bécancour Arthabaska Drummond Nicolet-Yamaska
Municipalities	Princeville Plessisville (V) Bécancour Victoriaville Warwick Kingsey Falls Daveluyville Drummondville Nicolet
Administrative divisions of Quebec

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthabaska_Regional_County_Municipality&oldid=1173652496"