13-478: Les Méchins is a municipality in Quebec , Canada, about 47 kilometres (29 mi) east of Matane along Quebec Route 132 . In addition to Les Méchins (formerly known as Grands-Méchins) itself, the municipality also includes the communities of Anse-des-Méchins, Cherbourg, Cherbourg-Centre, Les Îlets Méchins, and Petits-Méchins. The name Méchins is of uncertain origin although according to one theory, it may come from
26-477: A few minor differences from that of ville . However it is moot since there are no longer any cities in existence. Dorval and Côte Saint-Luc had the status of city when they were amalgamated into Montreal on January 1, 2002 as part of the municipal reorganization in Quebec ; however, when re-constituted as independent municipalities on January 1, 2006, it was with the status of town ( French : ville ) (although
39-614: A separate municipality in 1952, it was not until 1982 that the current Municipality of Méchins was formed through the merger of Méchins with Saint-Paulin-Dalibaire (formed in 1954) and Saint-Thomas-de-Cherbourg (formed in 1954). Les Méchins is located on the south slope of the St. Lawrence River , 455 kilometres (283 mi) northeast of Quebec City and 140 kilometres (87 mi) northeast of Rimouski . Major towns near Les Méchins are Sainte-Anne-des-Monts , 40 kilometres (25 mi) east, and Matane , 45 kilometres (28 mi) southwest. Les Méchins
52-841: Is a list of the types of local and supralocal territorial units in Quebec , Canada, including those used solely for statistical purposes, as defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy and compiled by the Institut de la statistique du Québec Not included are the urban agglomerations in Quebec , which, although they group together multiple municipalities, exercise only what are ordinarily local municipal powers. A list of local municipal units in Quebec by regional county municipality can be found at List of municipalities in Quebec . All municipalities (except cities), whether township, village, parish, or unspecified ones, are functionally and legally identical. The only difference
65-560: Is also a different kind of submunicipal unit, unconstituted localities , which is defined and tracked not by the Quebec Ministry of Municipal Affairs but by Statistics Canada . Granby (township), Quebec The Township of Granby (French: Canton de Granby ) was a township municipality in south-central Quebec , Canada in the La Haute-Yamaska Regional County Municipality . Its territory comprised
78-574: Is located on Route 132 in its loop around the Gaspé Peninsula between Grosses-Roches to the southwest and Cap-Chat to the northeast. The territory of Les Méchins covers an area of 474 square kilometres (183 sq mi). From the Petits Chic-Chocs lakes, in the southwest of the municipality, the Rivière des Grands Méchins crosses the municipality towards the north until its confluence with
91-449: Is that the designation might serve to disambiguate between otherwise identically named municipalities, often neighbouring ones. Many such cases have had their names changed, or merged with the identically named nearby municipality since the 1950s, such as the former Township of Granby and City of Granby merging and becoming the Town of Granby in 2007. Municipalities are governed primarily by
104-565: The Code municipal du Québec (Municipal Code of Québec, R.S.Q. c. C-27.1), whereas cities and towns are governed by the Loi sur les cités et villes (Cities and Towns Act, R.S.Q. c. C-19) as well as (in the case of the older ones) various individual charters. The very largest communities in Quebec are colloquially called cities; however there are currently no municipalities under the province's current legal system classified as cities. Quebec's government uses
117-547: The estuary of St. Lawrence . From the river source in the southwest, the Rivière des Grands Méchins Ouest flows towards the northeast until its confluence with the Rivière des Grands Méchins. From Xavier Lake, in the east of the municipality, the Grands Capucins River flows towards the northeast. The Cap-Chat River delimits the east of the municipality. Mother tongue (2021): Municipality (Quebec) The following
130-548: The English term town as the translation for the French term ville , and township for canton . The least-populated towns in Quebec ( Barkmere , with a population of about 60, or L'Île-Dorval , with less than 10) are much smaller than the most populous municipalities of other types ( Saint-Charles-Borromée and Sainte-Sophie , each with populations of over 13,300). The title city ( French : cité code=C) still legally exists, with
143-510: The French word méchants , meaning "wicked", and referring to rocks in the sea that would make navigation there dangerous. Another, less likely suggestion is that it may be a transformation of "Matsi", a 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) tall one-eyed monster of Mi'kmaq folklore who would come down from the mountains with a stick as big as a tree to terrorize the local people. Colonization began in 1859 when three families arrived. By 1865, it had grown to 119 inhabitants. The Mission of Saint-Édouard
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#1733093688795156-456: The municipal government of Dorval still uses the name Cité de Dorval). Prior to January 1, 1995, the code for municipalité was not M but rather SD ( sans désignation ; that is, unqualified municipality). Prior to 2004, there was a single code, TR, to cover the modern-day TC and TK. When the distinction between TC and TK was introduced, it was made retroactive to 1984, date of the federal Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act (S.C. 1984, c. 18). There
169-473: Was established in 1876 and the following year, the area was incorporated as the United Township Municipality of Dalibaire-et-Romieu. In 1880, the chapel was completed and its registers were opened. From that year onward, the place experienced a development boom due to the founding of a herring smokehouse and maritime industry, including ship building in the late 19th century. While Méchins became
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