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Laforce

Laforce () is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality.

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Settlement.name: Laforce
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.image_skyline: Laforce.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: The Expanse, a timber tugboat, worked for C.I.P. (Canadian International Paper). It entered service on Lake Simard in 1950.
Settlement.flag_size: 120x100px
Settlement.shield_size: 100x80px
Settlement.image_map: Laforce Quebec location diagram.png
Settlement.map_caption: Location within Témiscamingue RCM
Settlement.pushpin_map: Canada Western Quebec
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in western Quebec
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Canada
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Quebec
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Settlement.subdivision_type3: RCM
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Témiscamingue

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Laforce () is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality.

==History== The place saw its first settlers in 1937, and was originally called Devlin, after the geographic township of Devlin, in turn named in honour of Charles Ramsay Devlin. In 1938, the Parish of Saint-Charles-Borromée-de-Devlin was founded. In June of that same year, the place received the name Laforce, named after Ernest Laforce (1879–1977), deputy minister of Colonization of Quebec at that time. In 1940, the Laforce Post Office opened.