L'Isle-aux-Coudres
Municipality in Quebec, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
L'Isle-aux-Coudres, is a municipality located on island aux Coudres, in the St. Lawrence River, in Charlevoix Regional County Municipality, Capitale-Nationale region, Quebec, Canada.
L'Isle-aux-Coudres | |
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Coordinates: 47°24′N 70°23′W | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Capitale-Nationale |
RCM | Charlevoix |
Settled | 1728 |
Constituted | August 23, 2000 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Christyan Dufour |
• Federal riding | Montmorency—Charlevoix —Haute-Côte-Nord |
• Prov. riding | Charlevoix–Côte-de-Beaupré |
Area | |
• Total | 100.96 km2 (38.98 sq mi) |
• Land | 29.46 km2 (11.37 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 1,116 |
• Density | 37.9/km2 (98/sq mi) |
• Pop (2016-21) | 2.4% |
• Dwellings | 760 |
Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
Postal code(s) | |
Area code(s) | 418 and 581 |
Highways | No major routes |
Website | www |
Variations of the official name are: La Baleine, L'Île-aux-Coudres, Saint-Bernard-de-l'Île-aux-Coudres and Saint-Louis-de-l'Isle-aux-Coudres. Locally, the following variants are also noted: Île aux Coudriers, Île Elbow, Île aux Marsouins and Île aux Socles.[3][4]
Whereas the modern French spelling for "island" is île, the municipality uses the old French spelling of Isle. Its population centres include La Baleine in the north-east, (Saint-Louis-de-)l'Isle-aux-Coudres in the south, and Saint-Bernard-sur-Mer in the north-west facing Baie-Saint-Paul.
Access to the island are by sea (ferry) and air (airport). The free ferry service connects Saint-Bernard-sur-Mer to Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rive on the north shore of the gulf.[5][6]
It was the setting for the classic 1963 National Film Board of Canada documentary Pour la suite du monde.