Minganie Regional County Municipality, Quebec

Minganie is a regional county municipality of Quebec in Canada. The regional seat is Havre-Saint-Pierre. Anticosti Island is included within this region. It has a land area of 56,116.77 square kilometres (21,666.81 sq mi).

The population at the Canada 2006 Census was 6,390 inhabitants, about half of whom lived in Havre-Saint-Pierre. The census groups Minganie with the neighboring Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent RCM as the single census division of Minganie-Basse-Côte-Nord.^[1]

Until 2002, the Minganie encompassed the entire lower north shore right up to Blanc-Sablon. In 2002, it lost all the 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 Petit-Mécatina Unorganized Territory was transferred to the new Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality.^[2]

Subdivisions

The First Nations reserves of Mingan and Natashquan are within the boundaries but administratively not part of the regional county municipality.

Municipalities

• Aguanish
• Baie-Johan-Beetz
• Havre-Saint-Pierre
• L'Île-d'Anticosti
• Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan
• Rivière-au-Tonnerre
• Rivière-Saint-Jean

Townships

• Natashquan

Unorganized territories

• Lac-Jérôme

References

1. ^ Minganie--Basse-Côte-Nord, Quebec, Statistics Canada.
2. ^ Audrée Soucy (July 2010), "Municipalité régionale de comté (MRC)", Modifications aux municipalités du Québec (Quebec: Institut de la statistique du Québec), ISSN 1715-6408, http://www.stat.gouv.qc.ca/publications/referenc/pdf2010/modif_juillet10.pdf, retrieved 2010-09-17 

External links

• (French) Municipalité régionale de comté de Minganie

Coordinates: 51°00′N 61°30′W / 51°N 61.5°W / 51; -61.5