Maria-Chapdelaine is a Regional County Municipality in northeastern Quebec

Quebec

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Canada

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. Its seat is in Dolbeau-Mistassini. The RCM runs from Lac Saint-Jean

Lac Saint-Jean

Lac Saint-Jean is a large, relatively shallow lake in south-central Quebec, Canada, in the Laurentian Highlands. It is situated 206 kilometres north of the Saint Lawrence River, into which it drains via the Saguenay River. It covers an area of 1003 km² Lac Saint-Jean is a large, relatively...

 in the south to the deep interior of northern Quebec in the north. Created in 1983, the RCM is in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region.

Communities

• Cities and Towns
  • Dolbeau-Mistassini
  • Normandin
    Normandin, Quebec
    Normandin is a city located on the west side of Lac Saint-Jean in the Canadian province of Quebec.Normandin is name after the surveyor Joseph-Laurent Normandin. Its history of European-Canadian settlement began in 1878 when the first pioneers arrived. Alphonse Laliberté was elected as Normandin's...
    
    

• Municipalities
  • Albanel
    Albanel, Quebec
    Albanel is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located within the regional county municipality of Maria-Chapdelaine. The municipality had a population of 2,326 in the Canada 2006 Census.-History:...
    
    
  • Girardville
    Girardville, Quebec
    Girardville is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located within the regional county municipality of Maria-Chapdelaine. The municipality had a population of 1,186 in the Canada 2006 Census.-Demographics:Population trend:...
    
    
  • Notre-Dame-de-Lorette
    Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Quebec
    Notre-Dame-de-Lorette is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located within the regional county municipality of Maria-Chapdelaine...
    
    
  • Péribonka
    Péribonka, Quebec
    Péribonka is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the Maria-Chapdelaine Regional County Municipality. It is situated at the mouth of the Peribonka River where it forms a bay on the north shore of Lac Saint-Jean....
    
    
  • Saint-Edmond-les-Plaines
  • Saint-Eugène-d'Argentenay
    Saint-Eugène-d'Argentenay, Quebec
    Saint-Eugène-d'Argentenay is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located within the regional county municipality of Maria-Chapdelaine...
    
    
  • Saint-Stanislas
  • Saint-Thomas-Didyme
    Saint-Thomas-Didyme, Quebec
    Saint-Thomas-Didyme is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located within the regional county municipality of Maria-Chapdelaine. The municipality had a population of 708 in the Canada 2006 Census.-Demographics:Population trend:...
    
    

• Parish municipalities
  • Saint-Augustin

• Village municipalities
  • Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc

• Unorganized territories
  • Passes-Dangereuses
    Passes-Dangereuses, Quebec
    Passes-Dangereuses is an unorganized territory in the Canadian province of Quebec, located between the Peribonka River on the east and the Mistassibi River on the west...
    
    
  • Rivière-Mistassini
    Rivière-Mistassini, Quebec
    Rivière-Mistassini is an unorganized territory in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the regional county municipality of Maria-Chapdelaine...
    
    

Highways

Highways in Maria-Chapdelaine include:

• Route 169
  Quebec Route 169
  Route 169 begins south of Lac Saint-Jean, Quebec, Canada, at Route 175. It proceeds north to Lac Saint-Jean at Alma and encircles the lake, returning to Alma and its terminus in Hebertville.-Municipalities along Route 169:* Lac-Pikauba* Lac-Jacques-Cartier...
  
  
• Route 373
  Quebec Route 373
  Route 373 is a provincial highway located in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region in central Quebec. The 23-kilometer highway stretchs from just northeast of Saint-Félicien to Dolbeau-Mistassini with both ends at junctions of Route 169...