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Nord-du-Québec ( French pronunciation: [nɔʁ dy kebɛk]; English: Northern Quebec) is the largest, but the least populous, of the seventeen administrative regions of Quebec, Canada . Spread over nearly 14 degrees of latitude, north of the 49th parallel, the region covers 860,692 km 2 (332,315 sq mi), or just over half of the province's total ...
this was the first part of North America to have its code changed three times: from 213 to 714 1951: to 619 in 1982, and to 760 in 1997. was to have originally split off the portion of 760 serving San Diego County to a new 442 area code in late 2008/early 2009; that plan was cancelled. 2009: overlaid by 442. 761.
Regional county municipalities. A regional county municipality (French: Municipalité régionale de comté) in Quebec is a membership of numerous local municipalities, which in some cases can include unorganized territories, that was formed to administer certain services at the regional level such as waste management, public transit, land use planning and development, property assessment, etc ...
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Function. Administrative regions are used to organize the delivery of provincial government services. They were also the basis of organization for regional conferences of elected officers (French: conférences régionales des élus, CRÉ), with the exception of the Montérégie and Nord-du-Québec regions, which each had three CRÉs or equivalent bodies.
Coteau-du-Lac. / 45.3°N 74.18°W / 45.3; -74.18. Coteau-du-Lac is a small city in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality . The name of the town comes from the French word Coteau which meant "slope" and from its location on the north shore ...
There are currently thirteen hospitals in the Capitale-Nationale region: [10] CHU de Québec-Université Laval [11] Hôpital Saint-François d'Assise. Hôpital de l'Enfant-Jésus. Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement. Hôtel-Dieu de Québec. CHUL et Centre mère-enfant Soleil.
The Académie des lettres du Québec is a national academy for Quebec writers. It was founded as the Académie canadienne-française in 1944 by Victor Barbeau and a group of writers. In 1992 it changed its name to the Académie des lettres du Québec. It brings together writers and intellectuals of all disciplines. It can have up to 42 members.