Pontiac Regional County Municipality, Quebec
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fr:Pontiac (municipalité régionale de comté)
Pontiac is a county regional municipality of Quebec in Canada. It should not be confused with the municipality of Pontiac, which is located outside this county regional municipality.
Demographics
Population: 14,565 in 2001, down 6.5 per cent from 1996.
Language: The Pontiac MRC is primarily but not overwhelmingly anglophone; in the 2001 census, 57.2 per cent identified English as their first language, 38.3 per cent said it was French, 2.4 per cent listed both, and 2.1 per cent listed other.
(Source: Canada 2001 Census.)
Municipalities
The Pontiac MRC is comprised of 18 municipalities; Campbell's Bay is the county seat.
- Alleyn-et-Cawood (Danford Lake)
- Bristol
- Bryson
- Campbell's Bay
- Chichester
- Clarendon
- Fort-Coulonge
- L'Isle-aux-Allumettes (Allumette Island)
- Grand-Calumet (Calumet Island)
- Litchfield
- Mansfield-et-Pontefract
- Otter Lake (formerly Leslie-Clapham-et-Huddersfield)
- Portage-du-Fort
- Rapides-des-Joachims
- Shawville
- Sheenboro (formerly Sheen-Esher-Aberdeen-et-Malakoff)
- Thorne
- Waltham
The Pontiac MRC also includes Lac-Nilgault, a large unorganized territory to the north of the 18 municipalities.
External links
- Pontiac MRC Gateway (http://www.mrcpontiac.qc.ca/index_a.htm) (English-language version)