Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality
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Beauce-Sartigan is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. The county seat is Saint-Georges.<ref name="mamrot">Template:Mamrot</ref>
The Chaudière River flows through it. It shares its eastern border with Maine, United States.
The name of the RCM is linked to the historical region of which it is part, Beauce. Sartigan is a distortion of Mechatigan (or Msakkikhan), the name given to the Chaudière River by the native Abenakis.
Subdivisions
There are 16 subdivisions within the RCM:<ref name="mamrot"/>
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- Cities & Towns (1)
- Municipalities (9)
- Courcelles-Saint-Évariste
- Saint-Benoît-Labre
- Saint-Côme–Linière
- Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce
- Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce
- Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley
- Saint-Philibert
- Saint-Simon-les-Mines
- Saint-Théophile
- Parishes (4)
- Villages (2)
Demographics
Ethnicity
Source: 2016 Census <ref name="census2016"/>
- 96.2% White
- 2.8% Aboriginal
- 1.0% Visible Minority
Transportation
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:<ref>Official Transport Quebec Road Map</ref>
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- Autoroutes
- Principal Highways
- Secondary Highways
- External Routes
Attractions
- Centre d'art de Saint-Georges (Saint-Georges)
- Centre Marie-Fitzbach (Saint-Georges)
- Magasin général Honoré Grégoire (Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley)
- Musée d'autos antiques Victor-Bélanger (Saint-Côme–Linière)
- Pont couvert Perreault (1928) (Notre-Dame-des-Pins)
- Saint-Georges Airport (Saint-Georges)
- Saint-Paul-de-Cumberland Church (1847) (Saint-Simon-les-Mines)
- Village miniature Baillargeon (Saint-Georges)
See also
References
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