Lac-Supérieur
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Lac-Supérieur () is a municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Les Laurentides Regional County Municipality. It is named after Lake Superior (Lac Supérieur) which is located in the Laurentian Mountains, due east of Mont Tremblant Resort. The community of Lac-Supérieur is just south of the lake, which itself is ringed with cottages. The entire northern portion of the municipality is mostly undeveloped and part of the Mont-Tremblant National Park.
Key facts
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- Lac-Supérieur
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- Municipality
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- Lac-Supérieur in winter
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- Location within Les Laurentides RCM
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- Canada Central Quebec
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- Location in central Quebec
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- Region
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- Laurentides
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- RCM
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- Les Laurentides
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- Settled
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Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- Supéroise
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Les Laurentides
- Population
- 2024
- Area
- 385.50
- Shares border with
- Baie-des-Chaloupes
- Official website
- www.muni.lacsuperieur.qc.ca
- Image
- Lac-Superieur QC 1.JPG
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- Commons category
- Lac-Supérieur, Quebec
- inception
- 1881-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
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Lac-Supérieur () is a municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Les Laurentides Regional County Municipality. It is named after Lake Superior (Lac Supérieur) which is located in the Laurentian Mountains, due east of Mont Tremblant Resort. The community of Lac-Supérieur is just south of the lake, which itself is ringed with cottages. The entire northern portion of the municipality is mostly undeveloped and part of the Mont-Tremblant National Park.
==History== The municipality was formed in 1881 and initially named Wolfe, in tribute to British General James Wolfe. Its first settlers were Canadians repatriated from California and the western United States.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lac-Supérieur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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