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51-583: With an area of 38 square kilometres (15 sq mi), it extends over a length of 19 kilometres (12 mi) and a maximum width of 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) between Sayabec and Amqui in the Matapedia Valley . Matapedia Lake is located in the center of the Matapedia Valley and formed by the Appalachian Mountains mountain range in the Notre Dame Mountains section. Lake Matapedia

102-454: A humid continental climate ( Dfb ). Being surrounded by the Chic-Chocs creates unique climatic conditions in the region: a long and snowy winter and a hot and humid summer. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Amqui had a population of 5,999 living in 2,846 of its 3,015 total private dwellings, a change of -2.9% from its 2016 population of 6,178 . With

153-484: A land area of 121.02 km (46.73 sq mi), it had a population density of 49.6/km (128.4/sq mi) in 2021. According to the Statistics Canada website, 6,090 of Amqui's 6,120 residents speak French as their first language. In addition, 12% can speak both French and English. Members of the city council are elected every four years on the first Sunday of November and are conducted electronically. It

204-434: A motion stipulating that French was the only language used in debates and municipal affairs. The first aqueduct was built in 1903. The same year started the construction of the first stone church. The caisse populaire (credit union) had been established in 1907 by the priest Joseph-Cléophas Saindon. The phone had been installed before the electricity, when the first switchboard was commissioned in 1908. In 1910 Sayabec became

255-708: A pickup truck hit eleven pedestrians along Route 132, killing three people and injuring eight. Amqui is located to the south of the Saint Lawrence River in the Matapédia Valley , which was formed by the Chic-Choc Mountains . The valley is of glacial origin and was formed during the Paleozoic era millions of years ago. The region is characterized by gentle slopes through which the Matapédia river snakes from

306-473: A population of approximately 2,000, the third biggest municipality in its RCM after Amqui and Causapscal . Due to the presence of the chipboards plant called Panval, the biggest industry of the valley, Sayabec is an important regional economic centre. The territory was historically occupied by Mi'kmaq people , a First Nation who occupied much of the Gaspé Peninsula . Its first French Canadian inhabitant

357-494: A sawmill at the head of Matapédia Lake. After his death his second wife Marcella Dumas continued to cultivate the land at this place for eight years. Even if the first settler established himself as soon as 1833, it is the establishment of John Fenderson Company at the end of the 19th century that attracted more settlers in Sayabec. From this moment, more settlers, mainly from Rimouski and Matane counties, moved to Sayabec to work in

408-518: A seignory by Louis de Buade de Frontenac to Charles-Nicolas-Joseph D'Amours in 1694. D'Amours died in 1728 and none of his descendants claimed the rights to the seigneury. So it remained a remote and undeveloped land until the 19th century. In 1830 construction began on the Kempt Road, a strategic military road between Quebec and the Maritimes, completed in 1833, that opened the area to colonization. But it

459-569: A strong position against conscription. At the beginning of the 1950s Sayabec counted a total of nine schools. In 1951 the village of Saindon adopted the name of Sayabec. The first telephone code assigned to Sayabec was "748", but in 1969 the current code "536" had been assigned to Sayabec and Saint-Cléophas. On March 6, 1962 an office of the Police provinciale du Québec (Quebec Provincial Police) opened in Sayabec; it closed on April 30, 1963. The municipality bought its first snowplow in 1969. On January 5, 1976

510-512: Is a large beach where you can practice several activities including camping and wakeboarding. There is also a site developed for camping and a beach at Charlie's Bay (also called Charlie's Bay) in Sayabec and a campground at the Val-Brillant marina. Lac Matapédia is part of the tourist region of Gaspésie in the Matapedia Valley sub-region. The International Appalachian Trail runs along the north shore of Lake Matapedia, connecting Causapscal to

561-611: Is a town in eastern Quebec , Canada, at the base of the Gaspé peninsula in Bas-Saint-Laurent . Located at the confluence of the Humqui and Matapédia Rivers , it is the seat of La Matapédia Regional County Municipality . The main access road is Quebec Route 132 . The Mi'kmaq word amgoig , also written humqui , unkoui and ankwi , means "the place to have fun", "half wall" or "place of amusement and pleasure." Another Mi'kmaq name for

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612-543: Is composed of seven members: Provincially, Amqui is represented by Pascal Bérubé in the Matane-Matapédia electoral district. Federally, the city is represented by Kristina Michaud in the Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia electoral district. The two-storey Amqui railway station built in 1904, is served by Via Rail 's Ocean , and Montreal – Gaspé trains (to 2013 when the latter service

663-408: Is known for lake and brook trout fishing. The second watershed empties into Blanche River and covers 40% of the territory. It includes mainly Malcolm and Squaw Lakes as well as Blanche, Arthur, Edouard and Sauvages Rivers. Malcolm Lake to the north of the village is known for fishing, nautical activities and camping. Sayabec is located in a temperate climate . Between 2001 and 2010 maximum temperature

714-416: Is located 25 km east of Sayabec and 20 km northwest of Causapscal , the two largest municipalities of La Matapédia after Amqui. The city borders Saint-Vianney and Saint-Tharcisius to the north, Saint-Alexandre-des-Lacs to the east, Lac-au-Saumon and Saint-Léon-le-Grand to the south, as well as Sainte-Irène and Val-Brillant to the west. The Couturval hamlet is part of Amqui. Amqui has

765-513: Is located about thirty kilometers south of Matane in the former Seignory of Lac-Matapédia granted in 1694 to Charles-Nicolas-Joseph Damours of Louvières. Fed by several watercourses including the Sayabec River at the mouth of which the municipality of Sayabec is located, it discharges into the Baie des Chaleurs by the rivers Matapédia and Restigouche . Lake Matapedia is nicknamed the “Jewel of

816-473: Is located in Mont-Joli at 43 km to the northwest of Sayabec. Sayabec was the first village of the province of Quebec to adopt macadam roads as soon as 1910, before the arrival of asphalt on the market. Centre de services scolaire des Monts-et-Marées operates Francophone schools. Eastern Shores School Board operates Anglophone schools. Amqui Amqui ( / ɒ m k w iː / )

867-472: Is located in the mountains range of the Appalachian on a side of Chic-Choc Mountains in the section of Notre Dame Mountains . It is at an altitude of 200 m and the summits reach 350 m. The territory of Sayabec encompasses two watersheds. The first one sheds into Lake Matapédia, and covers approximately 60% of the territory. It includes Lake Matapédia as well as Sayabec and Saint Pierre Rivers. Lake Matapédia

918-543: Is located on the main transportation axis of the Gaspé Peninsula : Quebec Route 132 . It is also located on the Canadian National Railway . Via Rail operates two passenger trains on this railway: Le Chaleur and L'Océan. They stop at Sayabec at a railway stop on demand. Intercity buses of Orléans Express serve Sayabec, using the Route 132 in direction of Rimouski and Matapédia, Quebec . The closest regional airport

969-408: Is the largest industry in the region. Sayabec is located to the south of Saint Lawrence River on the Gaspé Peninsula in the Matapédia Valley . It is located 375 km to the northeast of Quebec City , 350 km to the west of Gaspé, Quebec and 100 km to the north of New Brunswick . The main cities in the vicinity of Sayabec are Rimouski at 60 km and Mont-Joli at 30 km to

1020-473: Is the mother tongue of nearly the entire population. About 13% of the population can speak English, and no residents has a language other than French or English as its native language. Unemployment rate in Sayabec was 16.8% in 2021. Median income was $ 32,000, and 20.7% of the adult population had a lower-income status in 2005. The municipal council of Sayabec for the 2021-2025 tenure is: List of former mayors (since formation of current municipality): Sayabec

1071-502: Is water and the rest (43.7%) is treeless. Approximately 35% of the territory is propitious for agriculture. Sayabec is part of La Matapédia Regional County Municipality in the administrative region of Bas-Saint-Laurent . The catholic parish of Sayabec named Saint-Nom-de-Marie is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rimouski . The municipality is part of the touristic region of Gaspésie . The geography of Sayabec

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1122-554: The Mi'kmaq language word sepeg , which means "full river" or "river obstructed by a beaver dam". In fact, the actual Mi'kmaq word is sakpediak , sak meaning "river" and pediak "full", but the Mi'kmaq used to say " sakbak " to be shorter. Other sources say that the name is from the Mi'kmaq word siapeg , which means "extension of the lake" or "small gulf". Demonyms of Sayabec are "Sayabécois" for male gender and "Sayabécoise" for female. The region

1173-542: The Réserve faunique de Matane . Sayabec Sayabec ( / s eɪ b ɛ k / ) is a municipality located in the La Matapédia Regional County Municipality (RCM) in Bas-Saint-Laurent , Quebec , Canada . It is located in the Matapédia Valley between the Chic-Choc Mountains of the Appalachian near Lake Matapédia . The main activities of the village are agriculture and forestry. It has

1224-473: The nationalization of electricity in Quebec in 1963. In 1912 the railway station opened. On March 28, 1917 the village split into two municipalities, when the village municipality of Saindon separated from the parish municipality of Sayabec. The village was named after the first priest, canon Joseph-Cléophas Saindon. On May 19, 1921 the village was once more divided, when the parish municipality of Saint-Cléophas

1275-450: The German firm Kunz were the two main shareholders of this plant named Panneaux de la Vallée shortened into Panval. On December 5, 1982 a thanksgiving mass had been celebrated at the occasion of the start of operations of Panval. Doctor Kunz himself attended this mass, and stated that this religious celebration was a first between all his plants around the world. In 1987 Panval was enlarged by

1326-535: The Valley”. The riparian municipalities of Lac Matapédia are Sayabec , Val-Brillant and Amqui as well as the unorganized territory of Lac-Matapédia . The spelling of this lake takes several forms depending on the geographers and the times. This body of water is first identified in 1807 on Carey's map in the graphic form of L. Matapediuch. In addition, in 1815, the geographer Joseph Bouchette named Lac Malapediach in his Topographical Description, while writing Metapediach in

1377-518: The addition of a third laminating press, and then became the largest producer of laminated panels in North America . In 1989 Panval employed 425 full-time employees, and occupied 62,700 sq m. More than 1,000 trucks by month served the plant. However, the NAFTA had a bad impact on the production of Panval, and its personnel had been reduced to 225 employees. As of 2012, the plant belongs to Uniboard Canada and

1428-453: The area is Amkooĭk or Mkooögwĭk which aptly describes the area as "boggy." One source postulates that its name comes from the swirling water at the junction of the Humqui and Matapédia rivers. However, the most plausible explanation appears to be more pragmatic: Amqui was formerly a place where Amerindians gathered for pow wows . Originally Mi'kmaq territory, the area was granted as

1479-719: The colonization of the Matapédia Valley. Afterwards, the Intercolonial Railway , built from 1870 to 1872, has been an important catalyst for the development of the forest industry in the valley. The first inhabitant of Matapédia Valley was Pierre Brochu (1795-1871) born in Saint-Vallier , Bellechasse , who settled down at the tip of Matapédia Lake in 1833. He was operating a guard post along Kempt Road to offer relief and lodging to travellers and postilions. He occupied this position until his death in 1871. Around 1850 he sat up

1530-406: The current spelling was used: Matapedia. Father Pacifique writes that the Mi'kmaq name Matapedia comes from "matapegiag", meaning "the river splits into several branches, makes a fork". While Joseph-Étienne Guinard affirms that Matapedia has more the meaning of "junction of rivers", of mata, "junction" and pegiag, "river". The toponym "Lac Matapédia" was officially registered on December 5, 1968 at

1581-492: The elderly called Pavillon Chanoine Saindon was built, and in 1990 a second eleven-tenant building for elderly called Appartements J.-A. Ross was built next to the first. Those lodging units are managed by the Sayabec Municipal Housing Office. Following a governmental decree of July 1, 1986 Sayabec had to close its municipal opencast dump, which opened in 1951. From then on, Sayabec's waste are transported to

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1632-530: The first village of the province of Quebec to adopt macadam roads, when it applied it on route de l'Église (Church Road). Between 1912 and 1917 the grand chemin Matapédia (Matapédia Big Road) also known as chemin Militaire (Military Road) had been macadamized. In 1911 Compagnie électrique d'Amqui (Amqui Electric Company) built an hydroelectric power plant downstream of Matapédia Lake in order to provide electricity to Amqui, Val-Brillant and Sayabec. This allowed

1683-484: The index of the work. In 1863, the geographer Stanislas Drapeau presented and lent him the graphic form Matapediac, as well as the road and the township on a published map (ref.: Studies on the development of the colonization of Lower Canada). However, in the text of this work, Drapeau uses the Matapedia spelling for this body of water, the river and the township. In addition, in the 1870 map of Quebec designed by Eugène Taché,

1734-402: The installation of street lightning in 1914. Compagnie électrique d'Amqui held the exclusivity on the electric network for a 25 years period in exchange of providing street lightning. In 1922 Compagnie de Pouvoir du Bas-Saint-Laurent (Bas-Saint-Laurent Power Company) owned by Jules-André Brillant bought Compagnie électrique d'Amqui and became the only power distributor in the region until

1785-707: The lordship of Matapédia Lake as well as the sawmill of Val-Brillant, Quebec . The sawmill for timbers closed in 1918, and has been demolished in 1922, but the sawmill for wood finishing continued to operate full-time. Around 80% of products were exported to the United States . In 1922 John Fenderson & Company built a plant to transform hardwood into wood flooring. At the time it was the biggest industry in all Eastern Quebec, employing around 400 people. John Fenderson & Company's plants has been sold to John Fenderson Lumber Limited Company, and then to Domaine Seigneurial, before being definitely closed in 1952. The municipality

1836-601: The merger of the parish municipality of Sainte-Marie-de-Sayabec and the village municipality of Sayabec. The municipality's main transportation link is the Quebec Route 132 which loops around the Gaspé Peninsula back towards the Mont-Joli area northwest of Sayabec. It is also located along the Canadian National Railway (originally the Intercolonial Railway ). Sayabec is pronounced "Say-bec" (/se.bɛk/). This name comes from

1887-690: The municipality office had been sat up in the current city hall, which was an old Daughters of Jesus residence bought by the Matapédia School District. On December 24, 1982 the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Marie-de-Sayabec and the Village Municipality of Sayabec had been merged into one municipality under the current name of Sayabec. In 1968 eight HLMs had been built under a program of Société d'habitation du Québec (Quebec Housing Corporation). In 1984 an eleven-tenant building for

1938-402: The northwest to the southeast. The city is located at the confluence of the Humqui and Matapédia rivers. The city is situated 415 km northeast of Quebec City , 345 km west of Gaspé and 80 km north of New Brunswick . Neighbouring urban centres include Rimouski and Mont-Joli , at 105 km and 70 km to the west, respectively, and Matane , 65 km to the north. Amqui

1989-507: The place name bank of the Commission de toponymie du Québec . The Lake Matapedia is a good body of water for tourism. Nautical activities such as fishing, sailing, windsurfing and swimming are easily practicable given the low density of users of the lake. In addition, there is a marina in Val-Brillant and an observation and boat launch park called Pierre-Brochu in Sayabec . The fine point of Amqui

2040-601: The regional landfill in Amqui. In 1988 Hydro-Québec installed a new power distribution station in Sayabec. On February 20, 1987 the municipality bought a warehouse to establish its municipal garage in order to house fire protection vehicles and municipal machinery. On February 19, 1981 the implantation of the panels-furniture plant was officially announced. On August, 20 of the same year the Quebec Premier René Lévesque came to Sayabec. The Crown corporation Rexfor and

2091-430: The sawmills or to clear lands. From then on the forestry vocation of Sayabec was set and more people came to work in the sawmills then to settle as farmers. The Fenderson family was the first real industrials of the valley. They bought a shingle mill in 1896. This mill was destroyed by fire the next year, and John Fenderson built a new sawmill for timbers and shingles as well as a plant for wood finishing. In 1910 he bought

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2142-471: The west, Matane at 40 km to the north and Amqui at 20 km to the east. Bordering municipalities are Saint-Moïse to the west, Val-Brillant to the east, Saint-Cléophas to the south and Sainte-Paule to the north. Sayabec is divided into two sections: the main section located near Lake Matapédia , and a second section near Lake Malcolm known as the hamlet of Lac-Malcolm . Sayabec covers 130 km . Forests cover 47.9% of this territory, 8.4%

2193-542: Was 34 Celsius, and minimum temperature was -41 Celsius. According to Statistics Canada, Sayabec's population in 2021 was 1,706, a 6.8% decrease from the 2016 population of 1,831. Most of the population is located in the southern portion of the municipal territory. There are a total of 872 private housing units in Sayabec, 812 of which are occupied by regular residents. The majority of Sayabec's housing are single-family homes. According to Statistics Canada's most recent survey, no immigrants were counted in Sayabec. French

2244-417: Was Pierre Brochu, who came in 1833. At the end of the 19th century settlers began to come in the region to work in sawmills. The municipality was first officially created in 1887 as a school municipality under the name Sainte-Marie-de-Sayabec. The Catholic parish was erected in 1894. In 1917, the village of Saindon was created, and it took the name of Sayabec in 1951. Today municipality was formed in 1982 through

2295-404: Was established under the name of Sainte-Marie-de-Sayabec. The catholic parish had been canonically erected on November 29, 1894, and the first priest was Joseph-Cléophas Saindon, beginning on October 2, 1896. The parish municipality had been officially created on April, 1st 1895 under the same name of the mission established five years before. On May 20, 1895 the municipal council unanimously adopted

2346-527: Was first frequented by the Mi'kmaq First Nation, beginning before the 17th century. In 1694, the lordship of Lake Madapequia was granted to Charles-Nicolas-Joseph D'Amours by the New France's governor, Louis de Buade de Frontenac . However, despite the laws of the time, this owner never inhabited nor exploited this territory, and he didn't officially bequeathed it. It is the construction of Kempt Road from 1830 to 1832 and Matapédia Road from 1847 to 1862 that allowed

2397-399: Was first officially created on February 18, 1887 as a school municipality instead of a parish municipality unlike as usual in Quebec, because education was important for local settlers. The first school was built in 1892. For the construction of this school each Sayabécois had to provide 24 ft of 8 ft long squared cedar for each arpent of land he possessed. In 1885 a catholic mission

2448-465: Was founded. Once again it had been named after priest Saindon. In 1927 Sainte-Paule , which was until then a mission of the catholic parish of Sayabec, separated to form its own municipality. In the 1920s the village counted 500 families. On February 18, 1929 a lightning destroyed most of the church; it has been rebuilt with the original walls in 1931. In May 1941 a corps of peace officers had been founded to ensure public order. In 1942, Sayabécois adopted

2499-460: Was incorporated as the Parish Municipality of Saint-Benoît-Joseph-Labre. In 1907, the village itself separated from the parish municipality and was incorporated as the Village Municipality of Saint-Benoît-Joseph-Labre, renamed to Amqui in 1948. It gained town status in 1961. In January 1991, the Parish Municipality of Saint-Benoît-Joseph-Labre was merged into the Town of Amqui. On March 13, 2023,

2550-493: Was suspended). Both trains share the same rail line between Montréal and Matapédia . The building is protected by the federal government under the Heritage Railway Stations Protection Act since 1988. The station is representative of the boom at the turn of the century, and the associated expansion of the railways in general, the Intercolonial Railway of Canada (IRC) in particular. Amqui depended on

2601-455: Was the construction of the Intercolonial Railway in the 1870s that brought real development. In 1879, the post office opened under the name Amqui. In 1881, the Mission of Saint-Benoît-Joseph-Labre was established, named after Benedict Joseph Labre . By 1884, the town became known as a great destination for salmon and trout fishing. In 1889, the mission became a parish and the following year it

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