Abitibi-Témiscamingue
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Abitibi-Témiscamingue () is an administrative region located in western Québec, Canada, along the border with Ontario. It became part of the province in 1898. It has a land area of and its population was 147,082 people as of the 2021 census. The region is divided into five regional county municipalities (French: municipalité régionale de comté, or MRC) and 79 municipalities. Its economy continues to be dominated by resource extraction industries. These include logging and mining all along the rich geologic Cadillac Fault between Val-d'Or and Rouyn-Noranda, as well as agriculture.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Administrative region
- Settlement.image_map
- Abitibi-Témiscamingue in Quebec.svg
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Canada
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Quebec
- Settlement.parts_type
- Regional County Municipalities (RCM) and Equivalent Territories (ET)
- Settlement.parts_style
- coll
- Settlement.parts
- 4 RCM, 1 ET
- Settlement.p1
- Abitibi
- Settlement.p2
- Abitibi-Ouest
- Settlement.p3
- La Vallée-de-l'Or
- Settlement.p4
- Témiscamingue
- Settlement.p5
- Rouyn-Noranda (ET)
- Settlement.area_land_km2
- 57,325.74
- Settlement.population_total
- 147,082
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2021
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21 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Administrative divisions
- Regional county municipalities
- Equivalent territory
- [[Algonquin Nation Programs and Services Secretariat|Algonquin Nation]]
- Major communities
- Demographics
- Languages
- National park
- Economy
- Colleges and universities
- University
- College
- Architecture and urban planning
- Rural and agricultural settlement
- Boomtowns and industrial cities
- Sports
- See also
- References
- External links
Abitibi-Témiscamingue () is an administrative region located in western Québec, Canada, along the border with Ontario. It became part of the province in 1898. It has a land area of and its population was 147,082 people as of the 2021 census. The region is divided into five regional county municipalities (French: municipalité régionale de comté, or MRC) and 79 municipalities. Its economy continues to be dominated by resource extraction industries. These include logging and mining all along the rich geologic Cadillac Fault between Val-d'Or and Rouyn-Noranda, as well as agriculture.
==History== thumb|left|Farm in Abitibi-Témiscamingue in 1962 The Algonquins are indigenous to the region. The first French expeditions were made in 1670 by Radisson as part of the development of the fur trade industry across the Hudson Bay region and through most of the New France colony. Fort Témiscamingue, located on the east banks of Lake Timiskaming and erected by a French merchant on Anishinaabe lands in 1720, was an important crossroads of the fur trade along the Hudson Bay trading route.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Abitibi-Témiscamingue” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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