Pontiac Regional County Municipality, Quebec

Infobox Settlement
name = Pontiac
(Quebec)
settlement_type = Regional County Municipality

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subdivision_name2 = Outaouais
established_title =Incorporated
established_date =January 1, 1983
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timezone = Eastern
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coor_type = 602, route 301, Campbell's Bay
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website = [http://www.mrcpontiac.qc.ca/ www.mrcpontiac.qc.ca]
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Pontiac is a county regional municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. It should not be confused with the municipality of Pontiac, which is located inside the county regional municipality of Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais.

Demographics

Population: 14,586 in 2006, up 0.1 % from 2001.

Language: The Pontiac MRC is primarily but not overwhelmingly anglophone; in the Canada 2006 Census, 56.7 % identified English as their first language, 41.1 % said it was French, 0.8 % listed both, and 1.4 % listed other.

Communities

The Pontiac MRC is comprised of 18 communities; Campbell's Bay is the county seat.

*Municipalities
**Alleyn-et-Cawood (Danford Lake)
**Bristol
**Bryson
**Campbell's Bay
**Clarendon
**L'Isle-aux-Allumettes (Allumette Island)
**L'Île-du-Grand-Calumet (Calumet Island)
**Litchfield
**Mansfield-et-Pontefract
**Otter Lake (formerly Leslie-Clapham-et-Huddersfield)
**Rapides-des-Joachims
**Shawville
**Sheenboro (formerly Sheen-Esher-Aberdeen-et-Malakoff)
**Thorne
**Waltham

*Village municipalities
**Fort-Coulonge
**Portage-du-Fort
*Township municipalities
**Chichester

The Pontiac MRC also includes Lac-Nilgaut, a large unorganized territory to the north of the 18 municipalities.

ee also

* Esprit Lodge
* Cycloparc PPJ

References

* [http://www.mamr.gouv.qc.ca/accueil.asp/ Affaires Municipales et Regions Quebec]

External links

* [http://www.mrcpontiac.qc.ca/index_a.htm Pontiac MRC Gateway] (English-language version)