12-611: Petite-Rivière-Saint-François is a municipality in Quebec , Canada, along the Saint Lawrence River . It is considered the gateway to the Charlevoix region. It is named after the Petite rivière Saint-François , and home to Le Massif ski resort. In June 1603, Samuel de Champlain sailed past there and wrote about the location: "The following Thursday, we left [Hare Island], and lowered
24-477: 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
36-588: A population of just 81 in the Canada 2021 Census . In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Barkmere had a population of 81 living in 50 of its 230 total private dwellings, a change of 39.7% from its 2016 population of 58 . With a land area of 17.72 km (6.84 sq mi), it had a population density of 4.6/km (11.8/sq mi) in 2021. Population trend: Mother tongue: Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board operates English-language schools: This Quebec location article
48-841: 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
60-599: 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 . Barkmere, Quebec Barkmere is a ville in the Canadian province of Quebec , located in Les Laurentides Regional County Municipality . It is one of the smallest incorporated municipalities in Quebec, with
72-449: 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
84-565: 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
96-631: The Seminary of Quebec , owner of the Beaupré Seignory that stretched from Beauport to Baie-Saint-Paul , granted land to Claude Bouchard, followed by another 15 concessions until the end of the 17th century. The settlement, the oldest in the Charlevoix region, grew at the mouth of the Little River in a deep valley east of Cape Maillard where natural open grassland accommodated the early colonizers. In 1721,
108-548: 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
120-554: The anchor in a dangerous cove on the north side, where there are some meadows and a little river where the Indians sometimes camp." The name Petite Rivière ("Little River") stuck, although over time the place has been identified in many other ways: Cap-Raide, Rivière-du-Sot, Anse-aux-Pommiers, l'Abattis (1695), l'Abatis (1755), Vieille-Rivière, Ruisseau-à-la-Nasse, Cap-Maillard, François-Xavier, Côte-de-Saint-François-Xavier' Saint-François-Xavier-de-la-Petite-Rivière-Saint-François. In 1675,
132-861: The local parish was formed, named Saint-François-Xavier after Francis Xavier , founder of the Jesuits. In 1845, it was incorporated but the municipality was abolished in 1847. In 1855, it was reestablished as the Parish Municipality of Saint-François-Xavier-de-la-Petite-Rivière. In common use, the place remained known as just Petite-Rivière. In 1986, it changed status and name to become the Municipality of Petite-Rivière-Saint-François. Population trend: Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 455 (total dwellings: 858) Mother tongue: [REDACTED] Media related to Petite-Rivière-Saint-François at Wikimedia Commons Municipality (Quebec) The following
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#1732901876815144-456: 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
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