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Grandes-Piles
Sign in to saveGrandes-Piles () is a village municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Grandes-Piles
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Grandespiles5rg.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Grandes-Piles as seen from Shawinigan
- Settlement.image_map
- Grands-Piles Quebec location diagram.png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location within Mékinac RCM
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Canada Central Quebec
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in central Quebec
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Mauricie
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- RCM
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Mékinac
- Settlement.established_title
- Settled
- Settlement.established_date
- c. 1850
- Settlement.established_title1
- Constituted
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Inception
- 10 August 1885
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Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- Granpiloise
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Mékinac
- Population
- +588
- Area
- +124.80
- Shares border with
- Saint-Tite
- Official website
- www.grandespiles.com
- Image
- Grandespiles5rg.jpg
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- Clamecy
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Grandes-Piles () is a village municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada.
The name of Grandes-Piles (literally "large piles") has uncertain origin. One of the best-known but false explanations is that it referred to a stack of logs entanglement on the rocks of the Saint-Maurice that inspired the early settlers. Another explanation claims that it referred to the large rocks used by the indigenous Americans to grind grain. It may also refer to the stack of stratums, horizontal sedimentary layers that are exposed in this part of the Mauricie.