Rivière-du-Loup

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website = [http://www.ville.riviere-du-loup.qc.ca/ Official city site]
footnotes = Rivière-du-Loup (2006 population 18,586) is a small city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The city is the seat for the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality.

History

The city was named after the nearby river, whose name means "Wolf's River" in French. This name may have come from a native tribe known as "Les Loups" or from the many seals, known in French as "loup-marin" (sea wolves), once found at the river's mouth.

Rivière-du-Loup was originally established in 1673 as the seigneurie of Sieur Charles-Aubert de la Chesnaye. The community was incorporated as the village of Fraserville, in honour of early settler Alexandre Fraser, in 1850, and became a city in 1910. The city reverted to its original name, Rivière-du-Loup, in 1919.

The city is known for its spectacular sunsets.

Transportation

Rivière-du-Loup is a traditional stopping point between Quebec City, the Maritimes and the Gaspé Peninsula. The Trans-Canada Highway turns south here, transferring from Autoroute 20 to Autoroute 85 and continuing southerly to Edmundston, New Brunswick.

There is a ferry which crosses the river to Saint-Siméon on the north shore.

The city is also served by the Rivière-du-Loup Airport (IATA airport code YRI).

Media

Television

Rivière-du-Loup is an unusual television market, as each of its stations has "two" transmitters in the city. As a result of the region's hilly geography, it is virtually impossible for a television station to serve the entire area with a single transmitter, as parts of the broadcast area experience signal dropout. Accordingly, each station in the city has both a primary transmitter and a low-power rebroadcaster to serve viewers who cannot receive the primary signal.

Additionally, the city is served by Canada's only triple-stick operation, in which all three of its licensed stations are owned by the same company, Télé Inter-Rives.

* Channel 7 (13) - CKRT (SRC)
* Channel 9 (6) - CIMT (TVA)
* Channel 29 (11) - CFTF (TQS)

Radio

* FM 89.5 - CJBR-1, Première Chaîne
* FM 90.7 - CBRX-3, Espace musique
* FM 103.7 - CIEL, AC
* FM 107.1 - CIBM, CHR
* FM 107.9 - CIBM-1

People

Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister, had a summer home in Rivière-du-Loup.

People born there include:
*Dr. John McLoughlin, known as "the father of Oregon"
*Allan Sirois, professional hockey player

External links

* [http://www.ville.riviere-du-loup.qc.ca/ Official city site]