Grosses-Roches
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Grosses-Roches
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
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- Grosses-Roches, Quebec, Canada.jpg
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- Skyline of Grosses-Roches in 2025
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- 120x80px
- Settlement.shield_size
- 100x80px
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- Location within La Matanie RCM
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- Canada Eastern Quebec
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- Location in eastern Quebec
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- Country
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- Canada
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Quebec
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- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Bas-Saint-Laurent
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- RCM
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- La Matanie
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- Rocheloise
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- La Matanie
- Population
- 403
- Area
- 63.30
- Shares border with
- Les Méchins
- Official website
- municipalite.grossesroches.ca
- Image
- Eglise Les-Saints-Sept-Freres.jpg
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- Commons category
- Grosses-Roches
- inception
- 1939-08-19
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Demographics
- Government
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- References
- External links
Grosses-Roches () is a municipality in Quebec, Canada.
==History== Settlement began in the mid-19th century and the place was called Grosses-Roches (French for "big rocks"), referring to a large number of small, rounded, brownish rocks. In 1870, the parish of Saints-Sept-Frères was founded. In 1881, the post office opened.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grosses-Roches” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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