12-753: Trois-Pistoles is a city in Les Basques Regional County Municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec , Canada. It is also the county seat. The town is located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River . A ferry crosses the river to Les Escoumins on the north shore. The port facilities are also used by fishing boats and scuba divers . The town is the site of the University of Western Ontario 's annual French immersion program, which has existed since 1932. It
24-557: A change of -4% from its 2016 population of 3,246 . With a land area of 7.63 km (2.95 sq mi), it had a population density of 408.3/km (1,057.4/sq mi) in 2021. City (Quebec) The following 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
36-477: 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
48-588: 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
60-521: Is Quebec's largest environmental festival. The town can be reached by Via Rail on the named train The Ocean, between Montreal and Halifax . The town is said to have been named for a silver goblet worth three pistoles , an old French coin, that was lost in the river in the 17th century. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Trois-Pistoles had a population of 3,115 living in 1,562 of its 1,727 total private dwellings,
72-599: 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
84-449: 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
96-562: Is the oldest such program in Canada. Just offshore of the town lies Île aux Basques , an island that was used by Basque whalers in the 16th century. The island, part of the surrounding Municipality of Notre-Dame-des-Neiges , is a National Historic Site of Canada and is now a migratory bird sanctuary . The town has hosted the Festival Échofête de Trois-Pistoles , an environmentalism -themed music festival and fair each July since 2002. It
108-565: 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
120-553: 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
132-548: 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
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#1732855044299144-456: 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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