Minganie Regional County Municipality
Regional county municipality in Quebec, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Minganie is a regional county municipality bathes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence water's, in Côte-Nord region, Quebec, Canada, its territory includes Anticosti Island.
Minganie | |
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Coordinates: 50°14′N 63°36′W[1] | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Côte-Nord |
Effective | January 1, 1982 |
County seat | Havre-Saint-Pierre |
Government | |
• Type | Prefecture |
• Prefect | Meggie Richard |
Area | |
• Total | 63,731.31 km2 (24,606.80 sq mi) |
• Land | 53,340.31 km2 (20,594.81 sq mi) |
Includes native reserves | |
Population (2021)[4] | |
• Total | 6,467 |
• Density | 0.1/km2 (0.3/sq mi) |
• Pop (2016-21) | 1.8% |
• Dwellings | 3,306 |
Includes native reserves | |
Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
Area code(s) | 418 and 581 |
Website | www |
The RCM administration is seat is Havre-Saint-Pierre. It has an area of 63,731.31 square kilometres (24,606.80 sq mi) according to Quebec's Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire (which includes coastal, lake, and river water territory),[3] or a land area of 53,340.31 square kilometres (20,594.81 sq mi) according to Statistics Canada. Its population in the 2021 Canadian census was 6,467.[4] The majority live in Havre-Saint-Pierre.[2]
Minganie and the neighbouring Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality are grouped into the single census division of Minganie—Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent (known as Minganie–Basse-Côte-Nord before 2010). The combined population at the 2021 Canadian census was 9,849.[5]
Until 2002, Minganie RCM encompassed the entire lower north shore right up to Blanc-Sablon. In 2002, it lost all the coastal communities east of the Natashquan River when the Basse-Côte-Nord Territory was formed. In July 2010, the RCM lost another 44% of its territory when the (uninhabited) Petit-Mécatina unorganized territory was transferred to the newly created Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, which superseded Basse-Côte-Nord.[6]