Dixville, Quebec
Encyclopedia
Dixville is a municipality in Quebec
in the regional county municipality
of Coaticook
and the region of Estrie
. It is named after Dick Baldwin, a local pioneer who built a mill and whose first name is pronounced Dix.
The name Saint-Mathieu-de-Dixville was used in the past. It may be the name of the local Roman Catholic church.
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
in the regional county municipality
Regional county municipality
The term regional county municipality or RCM is used in Quebec to designate one of 86 county-like political and geographic units. In most cases, they are also census divisions. Regional County Municipalities are a supralocal type of "Regional Municipality" and are still commonly referred to as...
of Coaticook
Coaticook Regional County Municipality, Quebec
Coaticook is a regional county municipality in southeastern Quebec, Canada. The regional county municipality seat is Coaticook.-History:On September 3, 1783, as a result of the signing of the Treaty of Paris the American Revolutionary War ended with Great Britain...
and the region of Estrie
Estrie
The Estrie is an administrative region of Quebec that overlaps mostly the Eastern Townships. Estrie, a French neologism, was coined as a derivative of est, "east."...
. It is named after Dick Baldwin, a local pioneer who built a mill and whose first name is pronounced Dix.
The name Saint-Mathieu-de-Dixville was used in the past. It may be the name of the local Roman Catholic church.