Le Haut-Saint-Laurent
| Municipalité régionale de comté Le Haut-Saint-Laurent
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| Country | Canada |
| province | Quebec |
| Administrative region | Montérégie |
| main place | Huntingdon |
| Residents | 24,634 (2011) |
| surface | 1167.5 km² |
| Population density | 21.1 inhabitants / km² |
| founding | January 1, 1982 |
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Le Haut-Saint-Laurent 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 13 subordinate administrative units (one city, five municipalities, four cantonal municipalities and three districts). The MRC was founded on January 1, 1982. The main town is Huntingdon . The population is 24,634 and the area is 1167.5 km², which corresponds to a population density of 21.1 inhabitants per km².
structure
City (ville)
Municipality (municipalité)
Canton municipality (municipalité de canton)
Sprengel (municipalité de paroisse)
The Akwesasne Indian reservation is also located on the territory of the MRC Le Haut-Saint-Laurent , but it is managed autonomously and forms an enclave.
Adjacent MRC and comparable areas
- Vaudreuil-Soulanges
- Beauharnois-Salaberry
- Les Jardins-de-Napierville
- Clinton County , New York , USA
- Franklin County , New York, USA
- Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry United Counties , Ontario
Web links
- Official website
- Statistical data ( Memento from February 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Siegmund Humberg , also Sigmund (1887–1954), and his wife Selma, German Jewish refugees from Westmünsterland , have been farmers in Le Haut-Saint-Laurent since 1940. Successful escape to Canada, as well as two other sibling families, while three such families were murdered in the Holocaust .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Le Haut-Saint-Laurent. Commission de toponymie du Quebec