Quebec City metropolitan community
Metropolitan area in Quebec, Canada
Québec Metropolitan Community
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Satellite image of the Communauté métropolitaine de Québec
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Coordinates: 46°49′N 71°13′W / 46.817°N 71.217°W / 46.817; -71.217 | |
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• Total | 3,349.12 km 2 (1,293.10 sq mi) |
Population
(2016)
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• Total | 800,296 |
• Density | 234.8/km 2 (608/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC-5 ( EST ) |
• Summer ( DST ) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
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Area code(s) | 418, 581 |
The Communauté métropolitaine de Québec ( CMQ ), or Quebec Metropolitan Community , is an administrative division of the province of Quebec , comprising the metropolitan area of Quebec City and Lévis . The CMQ is one of the two metropolitan communities of Quebec .
Predecessor
Effective January 1, 1970, the Québec Urban Community ( French : Communauté urbaine de Québec ) ("CUQ") was established, [3] which governed the area surrounding Quebec City on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River . Together with the CUQ, the Québec Urban Community Transit Commission ( French : Commission de transport de la Communauté urbaine de Québec ) ("CTCUQ") and the Greater Québec Water Purification Board ( French : Bureau d'assainissement des eaux du Québec Métropolitain ) ("BAEQM") were also established. Each of the three covered different groups of municipalities:
Historical county | Municipality | CUQ [4] | CTCUQ [5] | BAEQM [6] |
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Quebec County | Town of L'Ancienne-Lorette |
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Beauport |
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Bélair |
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Charlesbourg |
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Charlesbourg-Est |
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Charlesbourg-Ouest |
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Courville |
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Duberger |
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Giffard |
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Lac-Saint-Charles |
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Parish of L'Ancienne-Lorette |
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Loretteville |
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Montmorency |
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Neufchâtel |
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Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides |
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Orsainville |
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Quebec |
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Saint-Dunstan-du-Lac-Beauport |
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Sainte-Foy |
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Saint-Émile |
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Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux |
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Saint-Félix-du-Cap-Rouge |
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Sillery |
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Val-St-Michel |
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Vanier |
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Villeneuve |
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Portneuf County | Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures |
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Montmorency No 1 County | Saint-Jean-de-Boischatel |
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Formation
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The CUQ was replaced by the CMQ on January 1, 2002. [7] The CMQ exercised jurisdiction over a wider geographical area.
Quebec was amalgamated with the cities of Beauport , Cap-Rouge , Charlesbourg , L'Ancienne-Lorette , Lac-Saint-Charles , Loretteville , Saint-Émile , Sainte-Foy , Sillery , Val-Bélair , Vanier and Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures . In the 2006 demerger, L'Ancienne-Lorette and Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures regained separate status.
Lévis was amalgamated with Charny , Saint-Jean-Chrysostome , Saint-Nicolas , Saint-Rédempteur , Saint-Romuald , Pintendre , Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon , Sainte-Hélène-de-Breakeyville and Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-de-Lévy .
Regional county municipality or urban agglomeration (where applicable) | In Metropolitan Community | In CMA only |
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Urban agglomeration of Quebec City | ||
Lévis ( Equivalent territory ) [a 4] | ||
Bellechasse Regional County Municipality | ||
La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality | ||
L'Île-d'Orléans Regional County Municipality | ||
La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality | ||
La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality | ||
Lotbinière Regional County Municipality | ||
Portneuf Regional County Municipality |
- ↑ subdivided into the boroughs of Beauport , Charlesbourg , La Cité-Limoilou , La Haute-Saint-Charles , Les Rivières and Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge
- ↑ enclave within the borough of La Cité-Limoilou , not part of the urban agglomeration
- ↑ Huron-Wendat reserve , an enclave within the borough of La Haute-Saint-Charles , not part of the urban agglomeration
- ↑ subdivided into the boroughs of Desjardins , Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Ouest and Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Est
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 not part of the CMA
Gallery
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Québec
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Lévis
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Boroughs of Quebec City prior to October 31, 2009.
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Boroughs of Quebec City, effective November 1, 2009.
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Census | Total |
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Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | |||||
2016
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800,296
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741,010 |
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92.62% | 10,965 |
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1.41% | 3,775 |
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0.49% | 29,900 |
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2011
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765,706
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717,770 |
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93,74% | 10,850 |
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1.42% | 3,295 |
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0.43% | 22,080 |
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2006
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704,185
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671,145 |
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95.31% | 10,250 |
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1.46% | 2,125 |
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0.3% | 20,660 |
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2001
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673,100
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647,920 |
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96,14% | 9,750 |
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1.44% | 2,715 |
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0.40% | 11,665 |
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1.73% | |||||
1996
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671,889
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637,150 | n/a | 94,83% | 11,935 | n/a | 1.77% | 2,545 | n/a | 0.37% | 11,080 | n/a | 1.64% |
References
- ↑ "Census Profile - Quebec Census Metropolitan Area" . Canada 2011 Census . Statistics Canada . Retrieved 5 April 2014 .
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↑
"Census Profile, 2016 Census, Québec
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Census metropolitan area
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Statistics Canada
. 2016
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2021-02-22
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{{ cite web }}
: CS1 maint: url-status ( link ) - ↑ Québec Urban Community Act , S.Q. 1969, c. 83
- ↑ S.Q. 1969, c. 83, Sch. A
- ↑ S.Q. 1969, c. 83, Sch. B
- ↑ S.Q. 1969, c. 83, Sch. D
- ↑ An Act to reform the municipal territorial organization of the metropolitan regions of Montréal, Québec and the Outaouais , L.Q. 2000, c. 56, Sch. VI
- ↑ "Territoire de la CMQ et de la RMR de Québec" (in French). Communauté métropolitaine de Québec. Archived from the original on March 8, 2014 . Retrieved March 8, 2014 .
- ↑ "Geographic hierarchy: Québec (Census metropolitan area)" . Statistics Canada . Retrieved March 8, 2014 .
- ↑ Statistics Canada: 1996 , 2001 , 2006 , 2011 , 2016 census.
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Bellechasse RCM | |
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L'Île-d'Orléans RCM | |
La Côte-de-Beaupré RCM | |
La Jacques-Cartier RCM | |
Québec TE | |
Lévis TE | |
La Nouvelle-Beauce RCM | |
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Does not belong to the CMQ
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Does not belong to the Quebec City CMA
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Includes all metropolitan areas that have a population of 150,000 or greater according to the most recent national census.
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