Kamouraska Regional County Municipality
Kamouraska (Template:IPA) is a regional county municipality in eastern Quebec, Canada. The regional county municipality seat is Saint-Pascal, but the largest town is La Pocatière.
The area is an important research, development and education centre for agriculture. Factories in the region produce metal products and public transportation equipment. One of the people instrumental in settling and developing this area was Pascal Taché, an early seigneur.
The name "Kamouraska" comes from an Algonquin word meaning "where rushes grow at the water's edge". Template:Citation needed <ref name="#fn1">'Kamouraska' comes from the Abenaki, ska moraskua, which means "birch bark here", "there is some white birch bark". This sort of birch bark is used for making canoes and wigwams.</ref>
Geography
Adjacent counties and municipalities
- Aroostook County, Maine – southeast
- L'Islet Regional County Municipality, Quebec – southwest
Subdivisions
There are 19 subdivisions within the RCM:<ref name="mamrot"/>
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- Cities & Towns (2)
- Municipalities (11)
- Kamouraska
- Mont-Carmel
- Rivière-Ouelle
- Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska
- Saint-André-de-Kamouraska
- Saint-Bruno-de-Kamouraska
- Saint-Denis-De La Bouteillerie
- Sainte-Hélène-de-Kamouraska
- Saint-Gabriel-Lalemant
- Saint-Germain-de-Kamouraska
- Saint-Pacôme
- Parishes (2)
- Unorganized Territory (2)
Transportation
Access routes
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> Template:Col-begin Template:Col-4
- Autoroutes
- Principal Highways
- Secondary Highways
- External Routes
- None
See also
References
External links
- Kamouraska Regional County Municipality Official site
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