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Nantes (French pronunciation: [nɑ̃t] (listen)) is a municipality in Le Granit Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada. It is situated between Stornoway and Lac-Mégantic, where the Canadian Pacific Railway used to cross. Its population in the Canada 2011 Census was 1,374.

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Nantes
Municipality
Location within Le Granit RCM.
Nantes Location in southern Quebec.
Coordinates: 45°38′N 71°02′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Estrie
RCM	Le Granit
Constituted	January 1, 1874
Government [2]
• Mayor	Sylvain Gilbert
• Federal riding	Mégantic—L'Érable
• Prov. riding	Mégantic
Area [2][3]
• Total	120.50 km2 (46.53 sq mi)
• Land	120.39 km2 (46.48 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[3]
• Total	1,374
• Density	11.4/km2 (30/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	4.3%
• Dwellings	654
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0Y 1G0
Area code(s)	819
Highways	Route 161 Route 214 Route 263
Website	www.munantes.qc.ca

History

Nantes used to be called Spring Hill. In 1856, Scottish settlers established their camps. It was called Drum-A-Vack in Gaelic. French-Canadian families took over the camps in 1905. A train station and a postal office were added to the community in 1879 and in 1898, two sawmills, two telegraph offices, and two general stores were added as well.

Nantes has the distinction of having the last electro-mechanical telephone exchange in the public network of North America, finally converting to digital in 2002.

On July 6, 2013, a Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway train engine was left unmanned and parked on the line. The engine caught fire and was extinguished by the Nantes Fire Department. In the process of extinguishing the fire, the fire department turned off the engine.[4] As the engine had been turned off, the brake system began to lose pressure, eventually dropping to the point the brakes could no longer hold the train in place.[4] The train rolled away from Nantes, towards Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, and derailed there, causing an explosion that destroyed around half of the downtown area and killed forty-seven people.

Twin town

• Nantes, France

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References

External links

• Media related to Nantes, Quebec at Wikimedia Commons

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