La Mitis is a regional county municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region in eastern Quebec , Canada on the Gaspé peninsula . It is named for the Mitis River ( The Mitis ) which has its source in the region (at Lac Inférieur ) and flows through the central part of the region before emptying into the Saint Lawrence River .
6-496: The county seat is in Mont-Joli . There are 18 subdivisions within the RCM: Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border: [REDACTED] Media related to La Mitis Regional County Municipality at Wikimedia Commons Mont-Joli, Quebec Mont-Joli ( French: [mɔ̃ ʒɔli] )
12-562: Is 931.7 mm (36.68 in) with October as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 17.9 °C (64.2 °F), and lowest in January, at around −11.3 °C (11.7 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Mont-Joli was 35.9 °C (96.6 °F) on 4 July 1983; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −34.7 °C (−30.5 °F) on 3 January 2014. In
18-683: Is a city in the La Mitis Regional County Municipality within the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec , Canada. It is the county seat. The city is located east of Rimouski near the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River . In 1867, the main condition for New Brunswick and Nova-Scotia entering into the Canadian Confederation was, to be linked to the rest of the country by the railway. In 1868, work began on
24-431: The 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Mont-Joli had a population of 6,384 living in 3,034 of its 3,173 total private dwellings, an increase of 1.6% from its 2016 population of 6,281 . With a land area of 24.24 km (9.36 sq mi), it had a population density of 263.4/km (682.1/sq mi) in 2021. Mont-Joli is the easternmost end of Autoroute 20 , whose segment connects with
30-535: The Intercolonial Railway and the authorities decided to have the railway turn at Saint-Octave-de-Métis in Gaspésie. However, this village, because of its rugged landscape, was not suitable to receive the train station and maintenance shops. The engineers turned to the higher 2nd farming rank of Sainte-Flavie, and the train station was named Sainte-Flavie-Station. In 1880, Sainte-Flavie-Station became separate and
36-494: Was named Mont-Joli, the name which the first settlers had used to describe the area. On 13 June 2001, the neighbouring municipality of Saint-Jean-Baptiste (not to be confused with a different Saint-Jean-Baptiste in the Montérégie region) merged with Mont-Joli. Mont-Joli has a humid continental climate ( Köppen Dfb ). The average annual temperature in Mont-Joli is 3.9 °C (39.0 °F). The average annual precipitation
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