Francheville was a former regional county municipality in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada. Prior to its dissolution, it had an area of 1,124 square kilometres (434 sq mi).[3]

Francheville
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 46°30′N 72°25′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Mauricie
Effective	January 1982[1]
Dissolved	December 31, 2001
County seat	Trois-Rivières
Government
• Type	Prefecture
Area [1][2]
• Total	1,125 km2 (434 sq mi)
• Land	1,137.30 km2 (439.11 sq mi)
	There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources
Population  (2001)[2]
• Total	138,355
• Density	121.7/km2 (315/sq mi)
• Change (1996–2001)	1.6%
• Dwellings	65,022
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Area code(s)	819 or 418

The RCM was dissolved on December 31, 2001, when Saint-Étienne-des-Grès was transferred to the Maskinongé Regional County Municipality, the municipalities of Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Pointe-du-Lac, Saint-Louis-de-France, Sainte-Marthe-du-Cap, Trois-Rivières and Trois-Rivières-Ouest were merged into the new City of Trois-Rivières, and the remaining municipalities became part of the new Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality.[3]

Although the division no longer functions as a regional county municipality in the political sense, the amalgamated city of Trois-Rivières and the regional county municipality of Les Chenaux are still grouped together as the census division of Francheville by Statistics Canada for census purposes. The division had a population of 143,267 in the Canada 2006 Census.[4]

Subdivisions

Prior to its dissolution, the RCM consisted of:

Villes

• Cap-de-la-Madeleine
• Saint-Louis-de-France
• Sainte-Marthe-du-Cap
• Trois-Rivières
• Trois-Rivières-Ouest

Municipalities

• Batiscan
• Champlain
• Pointe-du-Lac
• Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes
• Saint-Stanislas
• Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade

Parish municipalities

• Saint-Étienne-des-Grès
• Saint-Maurice
• Saint-Narcisse
• Saint-Prosper
• Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan

See also

• Municipal history of Quebec

References