Rivière-Bleue | |
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 Location within Témiscouata RCM | |
  Rivière-Bleue Location in eastern Quebec | |
| Coordinates:47°26′N69°03′W / 47.433°N 69.050°W /47.433; -69.050[1] | |
| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  Quebec |
| Region | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
| RCM | Témiscouata |
| Constituted | June 14, 1975 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Claude H. Pelletier |
| • Federal riding | Rimouski-Neigette— Témiscouata—Les Basques |
| • Prov. riding | Rivière-du-Loup-Témiscouata |
| Area | |
• Total | 180.30 km2 (69.61 sq mi) |
| • Land | 174.07 km2 (67.21 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 1,299 |
| • Density | 7.5/km2 (19/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2006-2011 |  7.7% |
| • Dwellings | 766 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area code(s) | 418 and 581 |
| Highways |  R-289 |
| Website | www |
Rivière-Bleue (French pronunciation:[ʁivjɛʁblø]) is amunicipality inQuebec with more or less 1500 inhabitants. The municipality is located in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region on the border of the province ofNew-Brunswick andCanada–United States border withMaine.
The first settlers arrived in 1860. They were in fact pioneers from Scottish descents coming from the United States and others fromSaint-François-de-Madawaska, New Brunswick. The Catholic mission was founded in 1874 under the name of Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rivière-Bleue, and the postal office opened in 1910. The Catholic parish was erected and the parish municipality created officially in 1914 under the name of the mission. In 1920, the village municipality is created under the same name. The parish municipality and the village municipality are merged in 1975 under the name of Rivière-Bleue.
TheNational Transcontinental Railway and the station were crucial to the village’s development: travellers, goods, and forestry and agricultural products came and went by rail. In 1913, the first station was built in Tarte, along a sidetrack named in honour of Israël Tarte, journalist, politician and Minister of Transportation under Wilfrid Laurier. The name Tarte Siding is still in use. On January 4, 1914, the first train stopped at the station, on its way fromEdmundston,New Brunswick. In 1915, the building was carried a mile down the tracks, to Rivière-Bleue. There, the station was expanded to house the family of Arthur Aubut, the first station master to live in Rivière-Bleue. Until the end ofWorld War II, the railway was the only way to travel outside the village in the winter, and the telegraph, which was then a railway monopoly, was the fastest means of communication.
| Climate data for Rivière-Bleue | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 13.0 (55.4) | 14.0 (57.2) | 25.0 (77.0) | 27.0 (80.6) | 34.5 (94.1) | 35.0 (95.0) | 36.0 (96.8) | 34.5 (94.1) | 33.6 (92.5) | 29.0 (84.2) | 23.3 (73.9) | 14.4 (57.9) | 36.0 (96.8) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −6.9 (19.6) | −4.8 (23.4) | 1.2 (34.2) | 8.5 (47.3) | 17.2 (63.0) | 22.1 (71.8) | 25.0 (77.0) | 24.1 (75.4) | 19.2 (66.6) | 11.5 (52.7) | 4.0 (39.2) | −2.8 (27.0) | 9.9 (49.8) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −13 (9) | −11.8 (10.8) | −5.5 (22.1) | 2.4 (36.3) | 10.1 (50.2) | 15.0 (59.0) | 18.1 (64.6) | 17.0 (62.6) | 12.3 (54.1) | 5.8 (42.4) | −0.5 (31.1) | −7.7 (18.1) | 3.5 (38.3) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −19.1 (−2.4) | −18.7 (−1.7) | −11.9 (10.6) | −3.6 (25.5) | 2.9 (37.2) | 7.8 (46.0) | 11.0 (51.8) | 9.8 (49.6) | 5.3 (41.5) | 0.2 (32.4) | −4.9 (23.2) | −12.5 (9.5) | −2.8 (27.0) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −43.6 (−46.5) | −38.8 (−37.8) | −36.2 (−33.2) | −28.5 (−19.3) | −6.6 (20.1) | −3.6 (25.5) | 1.3 (34.3) | −1.2 (29.8) | −6.6 (20.1) | −12.4 (9.7) | −26.0 (−14.8) | −38.2 (−36.8) | −43.6 (−46.5) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 71.1 (2.80) | 63.2 (2.49) | 64.1 (2.52) | 67.0 (2.64) | 84.6 (3.33) | 101.1 (3.98) | 106.6 (4.20) | 86.4 (3.40) | 89.4 (3.52) | 102.7 (4.04) | 86.9 (3.42) | 88.6 (3.49) | 1,011.8 (39.83) |
| Source:Environment Canada (based on Edmundston weather station)[4] | |||||||||||||
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