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The following is a list of the types oflocal andsupralocal territorial units inQuebec, Canada, including those used solely for statistical purposes, as defined by theMinistry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy and compiled by theInstitut de la statistique du Québec
Not included are theurban agglomerations in Quebec, which, although they group together multiple municipalities, exercise only what are ordinarily local municipal powers.
A list of local municipal units in Quebec byregional county municipality can be found atList of municipalities in Quebec.
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All municipalities (except cities), whether township, village, parish, or unspecified ones, are functionally and legally identical.[citation needed] The only difference is that the designation might serve to disambiguate between otherwise identically named municipalities, often neighbouring ones.[citation needed] Many such cases have had their names changed, or merged with the identically named nearby municipality since the 1950s, such as the formerTownship of Granby and City of Granby merging and becoming theTown of Granby in 2007.[citation needed]
Municipalities are governed primarily by theCode municipal du Québec (Municipal Code of Québec, R.S.Q. c. C-27.1),[1] whereas cities and towns are governed by theLoi sur les cités et villes (Cities and Towns Act, R.S.Q. c. C-19)[2] as well as (in the case of the older ones) various individual charters.[citation needed]
The very largest communities in Quebec are colloquially called cities; however there are currently no municipalities under the province's current legal system classified as cities.[citation needed] Quebec's government uses the English termtown as the translation for the French termville, andtownship forcanton.[3] The least-populated towns in Quebec (Barkmere, with a population of about 60, orL'Île-Dorval, with less than 10) are much smaller than the most populous municipalities of other types (Saint-Charles-Borromée andSainte-Sophie, each with populations of over 13,300).[citation needed]
| Abbreviation | French term | English translation | Description | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CT | Municipalité de canton | Township municipality | All or part of the territory of atownship (townships were originally only a land surveying feature) set up as a municipality.[citation needed] | List of township municipalities in Quebec |
| CU | Municipalité de cantons unis | United township municipality | Municipality composed of several townships.[citation needed] | List of united township municipalities in Quebec |
| M | Municipalité | Municipality | Territory administered by an authority established under the laws governing municipalities.[citation needed] | List of municipalities (not otherwise specified) in Quebec |
| P | Municipalité de paroisse | Parish municipality | The territory of a religiousparish established as a municipality.[citation needed] | List of parish municipalities in Quebec |
| V | Ville[4] | Town[3] | Municipality legally established as a town.[citation needed] | List of towns in Quebec |
| VL | Municipalité de village | Village municipality | Territory of a village established as a municipality separate from a surrounding parish or township municipality.[citation needed] | List of village municipalities in Quebec |
The title city (French:cité code=C) still legally exists, with a few minor differences from that ofville.[citation needed] However it is moot since there are no longer any cities in existence.[citation needed]Dorval andCôte Saint-Luc had the status of city when they were amalgamated intoMontreal on January 1, 2002 as part of themunicipal reorganization in Quebec;[5] however, when re-constituted as independent municipalities on January 1, 2006, it was with the status of town (French:ville) (although the municipal government of Dorval still uses the name Cité de Dorval).[citation needed]
Prior to January 1, 1995, the code for municipalité was not M but rather SD (sans désignation; that is, unqualified municipality).[6]
| Abbreviation | French term | English translation | Description | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IRI (R) | Réserve indienne | Indian reserve | Territory reserved for Indians under theIndian Act.[citation needed][a] | List of Indian reserves in Quebec |
| TC | Terre réservée aux Cris (1-A) | Land reserved for the Cree | Territory reserved for the use and benefit of theCree population. Associated with a Cree village (VC) of the same name.[citation needed][b] | List of Cree and Naskapi territories in Quebec |
| TI | Terre de la catégorie I pour les Inuits | Category I land for the Inuit | Territory reserved for the use and benefit of theInuit population. Associated with a northern village (VN) of the same name.[citation needed] | List of northern villages and Inuit reserved lands in Quebec |
| TK | Terre réservée aux Naskapis (1-AN) | Land reserved for the Naskapi | Territory reserved for the use and benefit of theNaskapi (Innu) population. Associated with a Naskapi village (VK) of the same name.[citation needed][c] | List of Cree and Naskapi territories in Quebec |
| VC | Municipalité de village cri (Terre 1-B) | Cree village municipality | A primarilyCree village with a Cree local authority established by theCree Villages and the Naskapi Village Act.[citation needed][b] | List of Cree and Naskapi territories in Quebec |
| VK | Municipalité de village naskapi (Terre 1-BN) | Naskapi village municipality | A primarily Naskapi (Innu) village with a Naskapi local authority established by theCree Villages and the Naskapi Village Act.[citation needed][c] | List of Cree and Naskapi territories in Quebec |
| VN | Municipalité de village nordique | Northern village municipality | A village with anInuit local authority established by theAct respecting Northern villages and the Kativik Regional Government.[citation needed] | List of northern villages and Inuit reserved lands in Quebec |
Prior to 2004, there was a single code, TR, to cover the modern-day TC and TK.[citation needed] When the distinction between TC and TK was introduced, it was made retroactive to 1984, date of the federal Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act (S.C. 1984, c. 18).[citation needed]
| Abbreviation | French term | English translation | Description | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO | Territoire non organisé | Unorganized territory | A territory that has not been organized under a local municipality and is administered directly by a supralocal authority.[citation needed] | List of unorganized territories in Quebec |
| Abbreviation | French term | English translation | Description | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Arrondissement | Borough | Subdivision of some local municipalities.[citation needed] | List of boroughs in Quebec |
| S-É (EI) | Établissement amérindien | Indian settlement | Village or hamlet the majority of whose population is Amerindian and situated on lands without any particular legal status.[citation needed][d] | List of Indian settlements in Quebec |
There is also a different kind of submunicipal unit,unconstituted localities, which is defined and tracked not by the Quebec Ministry of Municipal Affairs but byStatistics Canada.[citation needed]
| Abbreviation | French term | English translation | Description | See also |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARg | Administration régionale | Regional government | Regional civil administration of a large, sparsely populated area representing Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal residents alike.[citation needed] | Kativik Regional Government |
| CM | Communauté métropolitaine | Metropolitan community | Administration bringing together the municipalities of a metropolitan area, larger than anurban agglomeration and not necessarily a multiple of RCMs and TEs.[citation needed] | Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal Communauté métropolitaine de Québec |
| MRC | Municipalité régionale de comté | Regional county municipality (RCM) | A territory comprising municipalities and sometimes unorganized territories, governed by an authority determined by law.[citation needed] | List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec |
| TÉ | Territoire équivalent à une MRC | Territory equivalent to an RCM | A statistical unit created to cover areas of Quebec not belonging to an RCM.[citation needed] | List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec |
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