Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality

Beauce-Sartigan
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 45°58′N 70°39′W / 45.967°N 70.650°W / 45.967; -70.650Coordinates: 45°58′N 70°39′W / 45.967°N 70.650°W / 45.967; -70.650[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Saint-Georges
Communities	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   Parishes Notre-Dame-des-Pins Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset Saint-Martin Saint-René   Villages Lac-Poulin La Guadeloupe
Government[2]
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Luc Lemieux
Area[2][3]
• Total	1,977.00 km2 (763.32 sq mi)
• Land	1,954.08 km2 (754.47 sq mi)
Population (2011)[3]
• Total	50,962
• Density	26.1/km2 (68/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	2.7%
• Dwellings	23,410
Time zone	EST (UTC−5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−4)
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Website	www.mrc beaucesartigan.com

Beauce-Sartigan is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. The county seat is Saint-Georges.^[2]

The Chaudière River flows through it. It shares its eastern border with Maine, United States.

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.

Subdivisions

There are 16 subdivisions within the RCM:^[2]

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

People

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

Transportation

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:^[4]

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)

See also

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

References

• Commission de toponymie du Québec

Adjacent Counties & Equivalent Territories

		Robert-Cliche RCM	Les Etchemins RCM
	Les Appalaches RCM		United States Somerset County, Maine
		Beauce-Sartigan RCM
		Le Granit RCM

Administrative divisions of Chaudière-Appalaches  (Region 12)
Regional county municipalities and equivalent territories	L'Islet Montmagny Bellechasse Lévis La Nouvelle-Beauce Robert-Cliche Les Etchemins Beauce-Sartigan Les Appalaches Lotbinière
Municipalities	Saint-Pamphile Montmagny Lévis Sainte-Marie Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon Beauceville Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce Saint-Georges Disraeli (V) Thetford Mines
Administrative divisions of Quebec