Portneuf RCM
15-475: Portneuf Regional Natural Park Parc naturel régional de Portneuf (French), is located on the territory of Portneuf City and the municipalities of Saint-Ubalde , Saint-Alban , Saint-Casimir and Rivière-à-Pierre , Portneuf RCM , Capitale-Nationale , Quebec , Canada . Between territory affected by human activity and the great outdoors, between rocky escarpments , mountains, exceptional trees, peat bogs and flowering undergrowth, lakes, rivers and streams,
30-399: A change of 4.5% from its 2016 population of 3,187 . With a land area of 109.1 km (42.1 sq mi), it had a population density of 30.5/km (79.0/sq mi) in 2021. Population trend: Mother tongue: Chemin du Roy The Chemin du Roy ( pronounced [ʃəmẽ d͡zʏ ʁwɑ] ; French for "King's Highway" or "King's Road") is a historic road along the north shore of
45-517: A road be built to connect the houses along the north shore of the St. Lawrence River , between Quebec City and Montreal . Work began in 1731, under the supervision of Grand Voyer (senior road surveyor) Eustache Lanouiller de Boisclerc, and was completed in 1737. Upon completion, the Chemin du Roy was 7.4 metres (24 ft) wide, over 280 kilometres (170 mi) long, and crossed 37 seignories . The Chemin du Roy
60-711: Is also close by to A-40, where Provencher Street connects to the town at Exit 261. One of Portneuf's major employers is a local paper mill owned by Metro Paper Industries, a Toronto -based paper company. Paper had been a major part of Portneuf's development since the first paper mill opened in 1839. In 1636, the area was granted by the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France as a seignory to Jacques Leneuf de La Poterie (1606-after 1685), who arrived in Quebec only some months later and became substitute governor of Trois-Rivières from 1645 to 1662. The first colonizers came around 1640 and settled at
75-467: Is located on the Saint Lawrence River , between Quebec City and Trois-Rivières . The Portneuf River runs on the east side of the town centre. The town of Portneuf is named after a seignory that was founded in 1636, and first settled in 1640. The municipal territory consists of 2 non-contiguous areas, separated by the municipality of Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne . The smaller northern portion
90-526: Is undeveloped, whereas the southern piece is the main inhabited part with the population centres of Portneuf (south of Autoroute 40 ), and the adjacent Notre-Dame-de-Portneuf , north of A-40. The present-day municipality was created in 2002, when the old city of Portneuf merged with the town of Notre-Dame-de-Portneuf. The town is located on the Chemin du Roy , a historic segment of Quebec Route 138 that stretches from near Montreal to Quebec City . The town
105-600: The St. Lawrence River in Quebec . The road begins in Repentigny and extends almost 280 kilometres (170 mi) eastward towards Quebec City , its eastern terminus. Most of the Chemin du Roy today follows along the present-day Quebec Route 138 . The expressway that replaces both Route 138 and the Chemin du Roy through most of its course is Quebec Autoroute 40 . In 1706, the Conseil supérieur (Grand Council) of New France decreed that
120-650: The Parish Municipality of Notre-Dame-de-Portneuf and was incorporated as the Village Municipality of Notre-Dame-de-Portneuf. In 1961, this latter one changed status and abbreviated its name, becoming the City of Portneuf. On July 4, 2002, the parish municipality was amalgamated into the new City of Portneuf. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Portneuf had a population of 3,329 living in 1,609 of its 1,696 total private dwellings,
135-592: The Portneuf Regional Natural Park, in all seasons in certain sectors, offers more than 70 km of walking trails , winding, sometimes very rugged, of easy, intermediate and difficult, lasting from 5 minutes to almost 4 hours. The territory of the Portneuf Regional Natural Park includes sectors distributed in disjointed areas. The Portneuf Regional Natural Park manages the Spéléo Québec property and caving activities at Trou du Diable . From mid-May to
150-461: The bark of Canadian tsuga ( Tsuga ) for its tannery properties led to the modification of the composition of all the ecosystem . In Sainte-Anne River gorges sector, the dominant forest species are: According to the Act respecting threatened and vulnerable species of Quebec, 5 species with precarious status have been identified in the park territory. A brood of Peregrine Falcon is regularly observed on
165-470: The beginning of December, the Quebec Speleology Society (Speleo Quebec) offers two routes: discovery and educational visits, for a fee (Reservation required). The most popular outdoor activities in the different sectors of the park are cross-country skiing , snowshoeing , hiking , climbing and fishing . The flora observed today in the territory of the Portneuf Regional Natural Park, and
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#1732895244944180-643: The cliff and Lake trout (lake trout) in Long Lake . The Northern dusky salamander has been identified in the park, the Arctic char is present in the Cœur and Anguille lakes. Portneuf Regional Natural Park provides visitors with: Download coordinates as: Portneuf, Quebec Portneuf is a municipality in the Portneuf Regional County Municipality , in the province of Quebec , Canada . It
195-500: The mouth of the "Port Neuf" River (meaning new harbour). In 1817, the Portneuf post office opened. In 1861, the Parish of Notre-Dame-de-Portneuf was formed, and two years later in 1863, it was incorporated as a parish municipality. In 1896, it lost a large portion of its territory when the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Christine was formed. In 1914, the village centre itself separated from
210-452: The portion of the Noire River (Sainte-Anne River tributary) which flows there, does not represent the forest of the regional pre-industria era . A large part of the territory has been the subject of logging for more than 200 years. So, the harvest of Tamarack (Red spruce) and Allegheny birch ( Yellow birch ) was done without concern for regeneration, between 1870 and 1890 the harvest of
225-562: Was the longest road in existence at the time in North America north of Mexico . In 1910, the portion of the Chemin du Roy on Montreal Island was renamed by the District and County of Montreal as Gouin Boulevard . It is no longer considered part of the historic route and does not feature the "Chemin du Roy" route markers that the tourist route now is signed with. Est to West, at the foot of
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