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Also known as Degelis, Quebec, Degelis, QC, Degelis

Dégelis () is a city in Témiscouata Regional County Municipality within the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec. Its population in the Canada 2021 Census was 2,884. The Madawaska River flows from Lake Témiscouata, through Degelis, to join the Saint John River at to the east at Edmundston, New Brunswick.

Key facts

Settlement.name
Dégelis
Settlement.settlement_type
City
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Dégelis and Madawaska River
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Armoiries Dégelis.png
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Par labeur grandirai("By work I will grow")
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Dégelis Quebec location diagram.png
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Location within Témiscouata RCM
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Canada Eastern Quebec
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Location in eastern Quebec
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Country
Settlement.subdivision_name
Canada
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Province
Settlement.subdivision_type2
Region
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Bas-Saint-Laurent
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RCM
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Témiscouata
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Settled

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Wikidata facts

Demonym
Dégelisienne
Country
Canada
Located in
Témiscouata
Population
2913
Area
568.00
Shares border with
Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac
Official website
ville.degelis.qc.ca
Image
Dégelis 08-2025 (01).jpg
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Commons category
Dégelis
inception
1880-00-00
external georeferencing URL
www.mrctemiscouata.com/sigim/#Degelis
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Encyclopedic overview

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Dégelis () is a city in Témiscouata Regional County Municipality within the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec. Its population in the Canada 2021 Census was 2,884. The Madawaska River flows from Lake Témiscouata, through Degelis, to join the Saint John River at to the east at Edmundston, New Brunswick.

Located on the banks of the Madawaska River (Saint John River), the city owes its name to a physical phenomenon: a zone of the river located in front the city, that never freezes. A Dégelis, in Old French, means a zone on the water free of ice (which is the phenomenon observed in Dégelis), a local winter thaw (no apparent reason), meaning an opening in the ice during the seasonal thawing.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dégelis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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