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14-748: Lac-Masketsi is an unorganized territory in the Mauricie region of province of Quebec , Canada , part of the Mékinac Regional County Municipality . Most of its area is part of the Zec Tawachiche . The discharge of Masketsi Lake at the south-east flows in the Little Lake Masketsi, which empties into the Tawachiche West River . It is named after Masketsi Lake that is located within its boundaries. This name first appeared on

28-560: A local services board's jurisdictional area is generally contracted to a separate local roads board . Local services boards exist in the Northern Ontario region and in the Parry Sound District , the parts of the province where there is no county -level system of government. They are primarily overseen by the provincial Ministry of Northern Development and Mines , which provides them with annual operating grant funding, although

42-445: A map from 1870 by Eugène-Étienne Taché and is of Amerindian origin meaning " moccasin ". The Canadian National Railway to Abitibi runs from 1909, linking Hervey-Jonction to La Tuque . The railway was built along the eastern shore of this lake, and was servicing the hamlets of Gouin and Lac-Masketsi ( 47°00′06″N 72°33′33″W  /  47.00167°N 72.55917°W  / 47.00167; -72.55917 ). Each hamlet had

56-407: A railway station that has long served the lumber camps, resorts and tourist activities. In 2004, Lac-Masketsi was reduced in size by some 90 square kilometres (35 sq mi) when portions were annexed by mostly Trois-Rives (70 km²) as well as Lac-aux-Sables (20 km²). The economy of this unorganized territory is mainly focused on forestry, resorts and tourist activities. This area

70-568: Is mostly forest and has many mountainous areas. Population trend: Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 0 (total dwellings: 0) Unorganized territory (Quebec) Most regional districts in British Columbia include some electoral areas , which are unincorporated areas that do not have their own municipal government, but residents of such areas still receive a form of local government by electing representatives to their regional district boards. The Stikine Region in

84-513: The Government of Ontario to provide municipal-level services in a community that is not part of an incorporated municipality . Most local services boards are elected by residents of the communities they serve. Depending on the community, the services provided may include water , sewage , street lighting , garbage collection , recreational , fire department , library and/or emergency telecommunications services. Maintenance of local roads in

98-597: The Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing also has a role in their governance. Most, but not all, communities which have a local services board are accorded the status of designated place in Statistics Canada censuses. However, Statistics Canada does not aggregate separate census data for local service boards which are not also designated places, including them only in the aggregated data for unorganized areas . There are currently 46 local services boards operating in

112-484: The Parry Sound District , the parts of the province where there is no county or regional municipality level of government. Some communities within unorganized areas may have some municipal services administered by local services boards . Unorganized areas in Ontario are named only by the district of which they are a part, with a geographic qualifier added when a single district contains more than one such area. Three of

126-531: The province's far northwest is the only part of British Columbia not in a regional district, because of its low population and the lack of any incorporated municipalities. The Stikine Region—not to be confused with the Stikine Country or the Kitimat-Stikine Regional District —provides services and regulatory capacities in the same way as regional districts, however, but is managed directly by

140-559: The province's unorganized areas had no reported population in the Canada 2006 Census ; they are marked with †daggers. Unorganized territories ( territoires non organisés ) in Quebec are located within regional county municipalities . They are usually named for a geographic feature within the unincorporated area . The Northern Saskatchewan Administration District is the unorganized area of Saskatchewan , which encompasses approximately half of

154-468: The province. The unorganized areas of Manitoba are labeled to and referred as with the Census division number they are located in, even though census divisions do not serve any administrative purpose. Nunavut has three unorganized areas: Kitikmeot, Unorganized , Qikiqtaaluk, Unorganized and Kivalliq, Unorganized . In Ontario , unorganized areas are found only in the Northern Ontario region, inclusive of

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168-451: The province; the newest, Greater Oxdrift , was incorporated in 2009. Some former local services boards have also been dissolved — this may occur because the community is subsequently incorporated as a true municipality, because the service area is annexed into a larger municipality or because the agency is no longer able, for financial or political reasons, to offer the level of service expected of an LSB. This Ontario -related article

182-508: The province’s landmass. Because of its extremely sparse population, the district has no local government and is directly subject to the Minister of Government Relations . Unorganized Yukon is the unorganized area covering the majority of Yukon . Local services board (Ontario) A local services board ( LSB ) is an organization in the Canadian province of Ontario that is contracted by

196-426: The provincial government instead of by a regional district board. In Manitoba, territories not part of rural municipalities , urban municipalities (city, town, or village), local government districts , or Indian reserves are classified as "Unorganized". These cover 67.4% of the total area of the province of Manitoba , with Unorganized Division No. 23 constituting more than half of the entire unorganized area of

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