Francheville | |
Settlement Type: | Regional county municipality |
Coordinates: | 46.5°N -97°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Mauricie |
Established Title: | Effective |
Established Date: | January 1982 |
Extinct Title: | Dissolved |
Extinct Date: | December 31, 2001 |
Seat Type: | County seat |
Seat: | Trois-Rivières |
Government Type: | Prefecture |
Area Total Km2: | 1125 |
Area Land Km2: | 1137.30 |
Area Note: | There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 138355 |
Population As Of: | 2001 |
Population Density Km2: | 121.7 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Change (1996–2001) |
Population Blank1: | 1.6% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 65022 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Area Code: | 819 or 418 |
Francheville was a former regional county municipality in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada. Prior to its dissolution, it had an area of 1124km2.[2]
The RCM was dissolved on December 31, 2001, when Saint-Étienne-des-Grès was transferred to the Maskinongé Regional County Municipality, the municipalities of Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Pointe-du-Lac, Saint-Louis-de-France, Sainte-Marthe-du-Cap, Trois-Rivières and Trois-Rivières-Ouest were merged into the new City of Trois-Rivières, and the remaining municipalities became part of the new Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality.[2]
Although the division no longer functions as a regional county municipality in the political sense, the amalgamated city of Trois-Rivières and the regional county municipality of Les Chenaux are still grouped together as the census division of Francheville by Statistics Canada for census purposes. The division had a population of 143,267 in the Canada 2006 Census.[3]
Prior to its dissolution, the RCM consisted of: