L'Érable Regional County Municipality

L'Érable
Regional county municipality
Location in province of Quebec.
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Centre-du-Québec
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Plessisville
Government
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Sylvain Labrecque
Area
• Total	1,300.70 km2 (502.20 sq mi)
• Land	1,286.81 km2 (496.84 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Total	23,366
• Density	18.2/km2 (47/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	0.9%
• Dwellings	10,721
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Area code	819
Website	www.mrc-erable.qc.ca

L'Érable (Maple) is a regional county municipality in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, Canada. Named for its maple trees, the area is rural in nature and is located 50 km southwest of Quebec City. Its seat is Plessisville.

Subdivisions

There are 11 subdivisions within the RCM:

Cities & Towns (2)

• Plessisville
• Princeville

Municipalities (6)

• Inverness
• Laurierville
• Lyster
• Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax
• Saint-Ferdinand
• Villeroy

Parishes (3)

• Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes
• Plessisville
• Saint-Pierre-Baptiste

Demographics

Mother tongue language from Canada 2006 Census

Language	Population	Pct (%)
French only	22,295	98.11%
English only	105	0.46%
Both English and French	45	0.20%
Other languages	280	1.23%

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
  • R-116
  • R-165

• Secondary Highways
  • R-218
  • R-263
  • R-265
  • R-267

• External Routes
  • None

See also

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec