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 Quebec - Biocrawler definition:Quebec - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Quebec (pronounced [kwəˈbɛk] or [kəˈbɛk]) (French: Québec, pronounced [kebɛk]) is the largest province in Canada geographically, and the second most populous, after Ontario, with a population of 7,568,640 (Statistics Canada, January 2005).
Quebec is located in eastern Canada, bordered by Ontario and Hudson Bay to the west, Atlantic Canada to the east, the United States (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York) to the south and the Arctic Ocean to the north.
The avian emblem of Quebec is the snowy owl.
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 Pontiac Regional County Municipality, Quebec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Pontiac is a county regional municipality of Quebec in Canada.
It should not be confused with the municipality of Pontiac, which is located outside this county regional municipality.
The Pontiac MRC is comprised of 18 municipalities; Campbell's Bay is the county seat.
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 Quebec Subdivisions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Region 02 has a flag created in 1938 and adopted as regional flag by the municipalities in 1988.
Region 01 starts at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence river and the numbers 02 to 07 increase westward (up the river) until you reach the Ottawa river (the border with Ontario).
Counties were formed around the same period, but eventually it became convenient to separate municipal counties from electoral counties (whose boundary may shift between elections to ensure that each county has a comparable number of voters).
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 Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais Regional County Municipality, Quebec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais (The hills of the Outaouais) is a regional county municipality in the Outaouais region of western Quebec, Canada.
Created in 1991, the region nearly encircles the City of Gatineau on its south.
The region is home to the majority of Gatineau Park.
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 List of Quebec Regional County Municipalities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Following is a list of the regional county municipalites, territories, and newly amalgamated cities (villes) in the province of Quebec.
Quebec used to be divided into counties, but in the early 1990's switched over to a new system of county regional municipalities, which seldom follow any of the previous county borders, and only a few have kept names.
All of Canada's similar regions are collectively called census divisions.
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 Quebec Online Research :: Information about Quebec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1774, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act that helped ensure the survival of the French language and French culture in the region; since it did not hinder Catholicism in Quebec, it was deemed as one of the Intolerable Acts that spurred the American Revolution.
The head of government is the List of Quebec premiers (called premier ministre in French) who leads the largest party in the Unicameral National Assembly of Quebec or Assemblée Nationale, from which the Council of Ministers is appointed.
Until 1968, the Quebec Legislature was Bicameral, consisting of the Legislative Council of Quebec and the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.
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 Canada Economic Development -- Lower St. Lawrence and the knowledge economy case study lower St. Lawrence Region
The [Quebec] government recognizes that [the CRCD's] strategic plan is the outcome of a concerted approach integrating the core of the issues posed in the region as well as the priorities to be adopted in order to foster its development.
The percentage with respect to Quebec as a whole, bearing in mind that the population of the Lower St. Lawrence represents 2.7% of the province's population.
The mandate of the Lower St. Lawrence regional consultation and development council (CRCD) is to develop a regional strategic plan and negotiate an Umbrella Agreement with the Quebec government whereby the government and the CRCD agree on priorities.
www.dec-ced.gc.ca /Complements/Publications/PublicationAgence-EN/BSL/BSL_en.htm   (10175 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality, Quebec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau (The Valley of the Gatineau) is a Regional County Municipality in western Quebec, Canada.
The Gatineau River is a river in western Quebec which rises in lakes north of the Baskatong Reservoir and flows south to join the Ottawa River at the city of Gatineau, Quebec.
Papineau is a county regional municipality of Quebec in Canada.
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 Abitibi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Abitibi is the common short form for Abitibi-Témiscamingue, one of the regions of Quebec, and is the name of a regional county municipality in Quebec see Abitibi Regional County Municipality, Quebec.
Abitibi is also the name of the Abitibi River in Ontario, Canada, a rapid stream which is the outlet for Lake Abitibi, which after a course of 200 miles joins the Moose River, flowing into James Bay.
Abitibi is also an abbreviation for Abitibi-Consolidated Inc., a major Canadian pulp and paper manufacturer.
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 Tableau des GenWeb régionnaux
In Quebec the word "county" alone is an electoral unit which is today usualy different from the municipal county.
Quebec used to be divided in 71 municipal counties.
It is those former municipal counties that genealogists are refering to when they use the word "county".
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The capital of the county was Timişoara (in Hungarian: Temesvár).
Témiscamingue is a county regional municipality of Quebec in Canada.
Témiscouata is a county regional municipality of Quebec in Canada.
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 History and Heritage - Exploration - Ville de Québec
At the foot of Montmorency Falls, the Montmorency Cotton Mills (later Dominion Textile) contributed to economic prosperity in the region, as did the huge Anglo Canadian Pulp and Paper Mill, founded in 1928 in Limoilou.
These new, modern neighborhoods were praised for their cleanliness and their easy accessibility with the advent of electric tramways at the turn of the century.
In the southwest, the village of Loretteville acted as Québec's county seat, providing area residents with meat, vegetables, bread, tools, and a variety of services as well as employment in its leather and glove factories.
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 Edited Hansard * 2310 * Number 052 (Official Version)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
There is one fact that must not be kept unknown in Quebec: it is the agreement passed with the management of various companies.
According to the reports from the municipalities served by the RCM and from Domtar, that firewood was delivered to Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Venise-en-Québec, Hudson, Rougemont, Granby, Vaudreuil, Dorion, Saint-Polycarpe, Carignan, Beloeil, Chambly, Mont-Saint-Grégoire, Farnham, Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Athanase and Iberville.
Citizens, along with several organizations and businesses from the Abitibi regional county municipality, were actively involved and many donations were made.
www.parl.gc.ca /36/1/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/052_1998-02-04/han052_2310-e.htm   (568 words)

  
 Canadian Rural Partnership - Rural Dialogue - Abitibi-Ouest Dialogue Summary Report Internet Access to Government of ...
This exercise was part of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue Rural Team action plan and was aimed at identifying the connectivity needs of the region's citizens, determining their level of satisfaction to access Government of Canada programs through the Internet in their region, and enabling discussions on this subject.
This area is identified as a resource region because of its largely natural resources-based economy: agriculture, forestry, mines and water.
This project is bringing together federal, provincial and municipal government representatives and is being carried out in consultation with community organizations.
www.rural.gc.ca /dialogue/report/qc/lasarre_e.phtml   (1260 words)

  
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Papamoa (population 11,949 — 2001 census) is situated in the Tauranga District of the sub-tropical Bay of Plenty region on the eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand.
It is the county seat of Sarpy County6.
The Papuan Gulf is a region on the south shore of New Guinea.
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 Edited Hansard * Table of Contents * Number 044 (Official Version)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lieutenant Caroline Guay was recently appointed director for the regional county municipality of L'Érable.
In 2001, she was seconded to the École nationale de police du Québec, where she worked as an instructor, and, in 2002, she was placed in charge of the initial training program for patrol officers.
Lieutenant Caroline Guay is the second woman in Quebec to hold such a position within the Sûreté du Québec.
www.parl.gc.ca /38/1/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/044_2004-12-13/han044_1400-E.htm   (819 words)

  
 Mont-Laurier, Canada
Mont-Laurier is a town in the North West of Quebec, Canada located on the banks of the Rivière du Lièvre, a tributary of the Ottawa River.
Mont-Laurier the Regional County Municiaplity seat of Antoine-Labelle Regional County Municipality.
In 1940, a road from Mont-Laurier to Abitibi was built and jump-started the trucking industry.
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 Technological Intensity of Manufacturing Firms in Québec: A Regional Analysis
In order to obtain a numerator, we compared the overall number of firms located in the region in question with the total number of firms at the same technological level in all of Québec.
When the quotient is equal to 1, this means that the region is average by Québec standards in terms of technological intensity.
These regions as well as Québec as a whole, desperately need to boost technological efforts as much as possible while favouring the implantation of high-tech industries.
www.stat.gouv.qc.ca /bul/economie/eco3_01_an.htm   (1413 words)

  
 CBC - Canada Votes 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The riding is located in the southwest corner of Quebec, on the border with Ontario.
The riding includes the city of Rouyn-Noranda, the regional county municipalities of Abitibi-Ouest, Abitibi and Timiscaming and part of the Municipality of Baie-James.
He participated in various commercial and ministerial missions abroad, for the government of Quebec and the federal government.
www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/riding/033   (698 words)

  
 Washington State Links List
Washington State University: alphabetical index to a "gateway" page to lots of useful regional information; there is, of course a lot of info specific to WSU, but there's a lot of general info as well--look for topics or departments of interest.
Municipal Research And Services Center Of Washington: all kinds of information and links pertaining to local governments in Washington.
Municipal Codes: searchable database of all municipal codes for Washington State.
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 Rouyn-Noranda, Canada
Rouyn-Noranda (2001 population 39,621) is a city on Osisko Lake in northwestern Quebec, Canada.
Since 1966, Rouyn and Noranda constitute the capital of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region.
In 2002 Rouyn-Noranda amalgamated with the communities of the Regional County Municipality of Rouyn-Noranda.
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 Population Up or Down by 2026? New Population Projections for Québec's 103 RCMs
If the trend described in the ISQ's reference scenario continues, population growth in the 2001-2026 period will take place mostly in the major metropolitan centres and their outskirts, along their principal roads, and in their tourist zones.
The only other population growth corridor is in the Capitale-Nationale and Chaudière-Appalaches regions, but growth is weaker and fragile.
Centred in Québec City and stretching from the Jacques-Cartier RCM in the north to the Beauce-Sartigan RCM in the south, it comprises eight RCMs: six with under 7% growth and two with under 15% growth.
www.stat.gouv.qc.ca /salle-presse/communiq/2004/octobre/octobre0401a_an.htm   (580 words)

  
 Abitibi - CBC News: Nfld. government to meet Abitibi next week over mill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Source Ab·i·tib·i Lake (ab ' i-tib ' e) A lake of eastern Ontario and southwest Quebec, Canada.
It is the source of the Abitibi River, which flows.
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 Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality, Quebec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality is located in Northwestern Quebec.
The Regional County Municipality Seat is La Sarre.
Highways that run through Abitibi-Ouest are as follows:
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abitibi-Ouest_County,_Quebec   (61 words)

  
 Science Fresh : Article 'Abitibi Consolidated'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Abitibi may refer to one of the following: Abitibi-Týmiscamingue, one of the regions of Quebec, and is the name of a regional county municipality in Quebec see Abitibi Regional County Municipality, Quebec.
Abitibi (electoral district) - former federal electoral district Abitibi County, Quebec - former County in Quebec Template:Disambig
History Jonquiýre was founded in 1847 by Marguerite Belley who came from La Malbaie, Quebec to settle on the Riviýre-aux-Sables river.
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