Pierre-De Saurel

Municipalité régionale de comté Pierre-De Saurel
Country	Canada
province	Quebec
Administrative region	Montérégie
main place	Sorel-Tracy
Residents	49,969 (2011)
surface	594.3 km²
Population density	84.1 inhabitants / km²
founding	October 18, 2008

Pierre-De Saurel (before January 1, 2009 Le Bas-Richelieu ) is a regional county municipality ( French municipalité régionale de comté, MRC ) in the Canadian province of Québec .

It is located in the administrative region of Montérégie and consists of twelve subordinate administrative units (three cities, three municipalities, a village and five districts). The MRC was founded on January 1, 1982 as MRC Le Bas-Richelieu . The main town is Sorel-Tracy . On October 18, 2008, the regional parish was renamed to its current name. The population is 49,969 and the area 594.3 km², which corresponds to a population density of 84.1 inhabitants per km².

structure

City (ville)

• Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel
• Saint-Ours
• Sorel-Tracy

Municipality (municipalité)

• Saint-Roch-de-Richelieu
• Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel
• Yamaska

Village (municipalité de village)

• Massueville

Sprengel (municipalité de paroisse)

• Saint-Aimé
• Saint David
• Saint-Gérard-Majella
• Saint Robert
• Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel

Adjacent MRC and comparable areas

• D'Autray
• Nicolet-Yamaska
• Drummond
• Les Maskoutains
• Marguerite-D'Youville

Web links

Commons : Pierre-De Saurel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Statistical data ( Memento from February 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Pierre-De Saurel. Commission de toponymie du Quebec
2. ↑ Le CLD du Bas-Richelieu devient le CLD de Pierre-De Saurel . Le Sorel-Tracy Magazine