Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality

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Beauce-Sartigan
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 45°58′N 70°39′W / 45.967°N 70.650°W / 45.967; -70.650
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Saint-Georges
Communities	List City Saint-Georges   Municipalities 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 Notre-Dame-des-Pins Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset Saint-Martin Saint-René   Villages Lac-Poulin La Guadeloupe
Government
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Luc Lemieux
Area
• Total	1,977.00 km2 (763.32 sq mi)
• Land	1,954.50 km2 (754.64 sq mi)
Population  (2016)
• Total	52,406
• Density	26.8/km2 (69/sq mi)
• Change 2011-2016	2.7%
• Dwellings	24,195
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Area codes	418 and 581
Website	www.mrc beaucesartigan.com

Beauce-Sartigan is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. The county seat is Saint-Georges.

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:

Demographics

Ethnicity

Source: 2016 Census

• 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:

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

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec
• Beauce, Quebec

References

• Commission de toponymie du Québec