An agglomeration , or urban agglomeration , is an administrative division of Quebec at the local level that may group together a number of municipalities which were abolished as independent entities on 1 January 2002 but reconstituted on 1 January 2006.
17-601: Roxton Falls is a village municipality in Acton Regional County Municipality , in the Canadian province of Quebec . The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 1,265. It is surrounded entirely by the township municipality of Roxton . Roxton Falls and Roxton are legally distinct municipalities (with separate elected officials), but the administration of both is physically located in
34-481: A few minor differences from that of ville . However it is moot since there are no longer any cities in existence. Dorval and Côte Saint-Luc had the status of city when they were amalgamated into Montreal on January 1, 2002 as part of the municipal reorganization in Quebec ; however, when re-constituted as independent municipalities on January 1, 2006, it was with the status of town ( French : ville ) (although
51-580: A population of 1,322 living in 615 of its 641 total private dwellings, a change of 1.3% from its 2016 population of 1,305 . With a land area of 4.94 km (1.91 sq mi), it had a population density of 267.6/km (693.1/sq mi) in 2021. Population trend: Mother tongue language (2006) Village municipality (Quebec) The following is a list of the types of local and supralocal territorial units in Quebec , Canada, including those used solely for statistical purposes, as defined by
68-518: A sawmill. The sawmill was powered by the energy of the falls, and was built in the same location as the Shaw Tannery. This industry, operated by the Larivière family, ran from 1906 to 1986. Because of the water falls, hydro-electric powerplants where installed on the river under the supervision of "The Roxton Electric Light & Power Co." in the 1920s. The sawmill ran thanks to the power of
85-566: Is also a different kind of submunicipal unit, unconstituted localities , which is defined and tracked not by the Quebec Ministry of Municipal Affairs but by Statistics Canada . Urban agglomerations in Quebec Urban agglomerations have certain powers that would ordinarily be exercised by individual municipalities. The 2000–06 municipal reorganization in Quebec proved to be controversial in several municipalities, and in
102-580: Is known as the central municipality and has special status under the Act . The others are called related municipalities . The Act defines the powers exercised by the agglomeration and those exercised by the reconstituted municipalities, known as agglomeration powers ( compétences d'agglomération ) and local powers ( compétences de proximité ). Agglomeration powers are exercised by agglomeration councils ( conseils d'agglomération ). These are defined by statute . Many governmental functions are performed by
119-453: Is that the designation might serve to disambiguate between otherwise identically named municipalities, often neighbouring ones. Many such cases have had their names changed, or merged with the identically named nearby municipality since the 1950s, such as the former Township of Granby and City of Granby merging and becoming the Town of Granby in 2007. Municipalities are governed primarily by
136-572: The Code municipal du Québec (Municipal Code of Québec, R.S.Q. c. C-27.1), whereas cities and towns are governed by the Loi sur les cités et villes (Cities and Towns Act, R.S.Q. c. C-19) as well as (in the case of the older ones) various individual charters. 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. Quebec's government uses
153-693: The Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy and compiled by the Institut de la statistique du Québec Not included are the urban 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 by regional county municipality can be found at List of municipalities in Quebec . All municipalities (except cities), whether township, village, parish, or unspecified ones, are functionally and legally identical. The only difference
170-557: The English term town as the translation for the French term ville , and township for canton . The least-populated towns in Quebec ( Barkmere , with a population of about 60, or L'Île-Dorval , with less than 10) are much smaller than the most populous municipalities of other types ( Saint-Charles-Borromée and Sainte-Sophie , each with populations of over 13,300). The title city ( French : cité code=C) still legally exists, with
187-401: The aftermath, several municipalities voted in a 2004 referendum to reverse their amalgamation. However the supralocal urban agglomeration level of government was retained over each formerly merged region. The Act respecting the exercise of certain municipal powers in certain urban agglomerations defines the expression urban agglomeration as follows. One municipality in each agglomeration
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#1732780888278204-600: The area, it is rumoured that Abenaki Indians used to use the falls as a meeting point for trade, and possibly even had a camp at the foot of the falls. In 1792, after the government of Lower Canada started making districts from the lands south of the Saint Laurence and east of the Richelieu River , the area of Roxton was supposedly named after Roxton, Bedfordshire in England. The village at Roxton Falls
221-456: The municipal government of Dorval still uses the name Cité de Dorval). Prior to January 1, 1995, the code for municipalité was not M but rather SD ( sans désignation ; that is, unqualified municipality). Prior to 2004, there was a single code, TR, to cover the modern-day TC and TK. 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). There
238-590: The village in the 1860s was leather, specifically sole leather. Two tanneries existed in the village, the Shaw and the Wood Tanneries, but the industry was mostly dominated by the Shaw Brothers' enterprise. In1871, Roxton Falls was one of the few cities with any notable industrial output in Quebec, ranking with cities like Sherbrook , Levis , and St-John . As tanning began to die out, it was replaced by
255-494: The village of Roxton Falls. Roxton Falls has only a few hundred more people than Roxton, but is concentrated in a much smaller geographic area. Roxton falls is highlighted by a split on the Noire River which surrounds a small island, causing two nine meter falls. Even though the whole area used to by mostly marshy, it was slowly reclaimed by inhabitants of the village since the 1900s. Before European activity even began in
272-518: The water falls, which was enhanced in the 1920s by wood dams. These dams however, where soon replaced by concrete ones. The east dam was damaged by torrential rain in 1972, and was never repaired. The remains of the dam, as well as some of the equipment from the sawmill, can be seen from the Larivière Parc, which was constructed on the same site as the old mill. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Roxton Falls had
289-422: Was initially called Metcalfe, until the municipality of Roxton Falls pulled from Roxton. The area remained mostly uninhabited until the first mayor of Roxton Falls, from 1863 was John Wood, a leather tanner who had moved to that area in 1851. He was mayor until 1880, followed by Joseph Lafontaine. Because abundance of Eastern Hemlock whose bark is used for tanning in the area, one of the primary productions of
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