Lac-Etchemin
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Lac-Etchemin () is a municipality in and the seat of the Municipalité régionale de comté des Etchemins in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 4,028 as of 2021. It takes its name from Etchemin Lake, at the centre of the municipality. "Etchemin" means "men, human beings" in Abenaki language.
Key facts
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- Lac-Etchemin
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- Municipality
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- Lac-Etchemin seen from the lake
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- Location within Les Etchemins RCM.
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- Canada Southern Quebec
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- Location in southern Quebec.
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- Country
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- Province
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- Region
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- Chaudière-Appalaches
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- RCM
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- Les Etchemins
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- Constituted
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- October 10, 2001
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- Mayor
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- Harold Gagnon
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Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- Lacetcheminoise
- Country
- Canada
- Population
- 4076
- Area
- 161.60
- Capital of
- Les Etchemins
- Shares border with
- Sainte-Rose-de-Watford
- Official website
- lac-etchemin.ca
- Image
- LacEtchemin.jpg
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- Commons category
- Lac-Etchemin
- inception
- 2001-10-10
- external georeferencing URL
- www.goazimut.com/GOnet6/index.html?m=28053
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Encyclopedic overview
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Lac-Etchemin () is a municipality in and the seat of the Municipalité régionale de comté des Etchemins in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 4,028 as of 2021. It takes its name from Etchemin Lake, at the centre of the municipality. "Etchemin" means "men, human beings" in Abenaki language.
Lac-Etchemin is home to winter resort Mont Orignal and the birthplace of controversial religious Community of the Lady of All Nations.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lac-Etchemin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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