Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality, Quebec

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Municipalité régionale de comté de Beauce-Sartigan
Location of Beauce-Sartigan in Quebec
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
County seat	Saint-Georges, Quebec
Settlements	List City Saint-Georges   Municipalities Saint-Benoît-Labre Saint-Côme-Linière Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce Saint-Évariste-de-Forsyth Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley Saint-Philibert Saint-Simon-les-Mines Saint-Théophile   Villages La Guadeloupe Lac-Poulin   Parishes Notre-Dame-des-Pins Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset Saint-Martin Saint-René
Area
- Total	2,013.67 km2 (777.5 sq mi)
Population (2009)
- Total	50,229
- Density	24.9/km2 (64.6/sq mi)
Time zone	EST (UTC-5)
- Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)

Beauce-Sartigan is a regional county municipality (RCM) in southeastern Quebec, Canada, on the Chaudière River, in Chaudière-Appalaches. It shares its eastern border with Maine, United States. The county seat is Saint-Georges.

The name of the RCM is linked to the historical region of which it is part, Beauce. Sartigan is a distortion of Mechatigan (or Msakkikhan), the name given to the Chaudière River by the native Abenakis.

Contents 1 Communities 2 Attractions 3 Protected areas 4 Highways 5 Demographics 5.1 People 6 Surrounding RCMs and Counties 7 See also 8 References

[edit] Communities

• City
  • Saint-Georges

• Municipalities
  • Saint-Benoît-Labre
  • Saint-Côme-Linière
  • Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce
  • Saint-Évariste-de-Forsyth
  • Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce
  • Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley
  • Saint-Philibert
  • Saint-Simon-les-Mines
  • Saint-Théophile

• Villages
  • La Guadeloupe
  • Lac-Poulin

• Parishes
  • Notre-Dame-des-Pins
  • Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset
  • Saint-Martin
  • Saint-René

[edit] Attractions

• Centre d'art de Saint-Georges (Saint-Georges)
• Centre Marie-Fitzbach (Saint-Georges)
• Magasin général Honoré Grégoire (Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley)
• Musée d'autos antiques Victor-Bélanger (Saint-Côme-Linière)
• Pont couvert Perreault (1928) (Notre-Dame-des-Pins)
• Saint-Georges Airport (Saint-Georges)
• Saint-Paul-de-Cumberland Church (1847) (Saint-Simon-les-Mines)
• Village miniature Baillargeon (Saint-Georges)

[edit] Protected areas

• Zec Jaro

[edit] Highways

Route 108
Route 173
Route 204
Route 269
Route 271
Route 275

[edit] Demographics

(Statistics Canada, 2006)

• Population change (2001-2006): 3.6%
• Dwellings: 21,867
• National rank in terms of population: 117
• Provincial rank in terms of population: 31

[edit] People

• 99.3% White
• 0.4% Aboriginal
• 0.3% Visible Minority

[edit] Surrounding RCMs and Counties

• Le Granit Regional County Municipality, Quebec
• Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality, Quebec
• Les Etchemins Regional County Municipality, Quebec
• Robert-Cliche Regional County Municipality, Quebec
• Somerset County, Maine

[edit] See also

• Beauce, Quebec
• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec

[edit] References

• Commission de toponymie du Québec
• Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire
• Statistics Canada

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