La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality

La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau (French pronunciation: [la vale də la ɡatino], The Valley of the Gatineau) is a regional county municipality in the Outaouais region of western Quebec, Canada. The seat is in Gracefield. It was incorporated on January 1, 1983 and was named for its location straddling the Gatineau River north of Low.

La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 46°32′N 76°03′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Outaouais
Effective	January 1, 1983
County seat	Gracefield
Government [2]
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Chantal Lamarche
Area [2][3]
• Total	13,931.50 km2 (5,378.98 sq mi)
• Land	12,480.50 km2 (4,818.75 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[3]
• Total	20,182
• Density	1.6/km2 (4/sq mi)
• Change 2011-2016	1.7%
• Dwellings	15,363
Time zone	UTC−05:00 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−04:00 (EDT)
Area code	819
Website	www.mrcvg.qc.ca
[4]

It consists of two cities, fifteen municipalities, and five unorganized territories. The area also has two Algonquin communities, Rapid Lake in the heart of the La Vérendrye Wildlife Reserve and Kitigan Zibi.

The territory of the Gatineau Valley is bordered by other Outaouais RCMs: to the east by the Antoine-Labelle Regional County Municipality, to the southeast by Papineau RCM, to the south by the Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais RCM and to the west by the Pontiac Regional County Municipality. To the north is La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region. Numerous lakes abound in area, including everything from the small Lac des Pins ^[5] to 31 Mile Lake.^[6]

The administrative centre for La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau is north of Kitigan Zibi in Maniwaki, previously the county seat of historic Gatineau County.

RCM Offices in Gracefield

Subdivisions

There are 22 subdivisions within the RCM:^[2]

Cities & Towns (2) Gracefield Maniwaki

Municipalities (13) Blue Sea Bois-Franc Bouchette Cayamant Déléage Denholm Egan-Sud Grand-Remous Kazabazua Lac-Sainte-Marie Messines Montcerf-Lytton Sainte-Thérèse-de-la-Gatineau

Townships (2) Aumond Low

Unorganized Territory (5) Cascades-Malignes Dépôt-Échouani Lac-Lenôtre Lac-Moselle Lac-Pythonga

First Nation Reserve (2) (not associated with RCM) Kitigan Zibi Rapid Lake

Transportation

Access routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:^[7]

• Autoroutes
  • None
• Principal highways
  • R-105
  • R-117 (TCH)
  • R-107
• Secondary highways
  • None

See also

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec

References

1. "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 141085". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
2. "Répertoire des municipalités: Geographic code 830". www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.
3. "Census Profile, 2016 Census: La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau, Municipalité régionale de comté [Census division], Quebec". Statistics Canada. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
4. "La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality (Code 2483) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada.
5. Lac des Pins, Aumond, Quebec
6. "31 miles lake (Lac des trente et un milles), Quebec - the Lake".
7. Official Transport Quebec Road Map

External links

• Official website (in French)
• Gatineau Valley Tourism site
• Gatineau Valley Development agency