There are in the Province of Quebec seventy-five (75) electoral districts,
named and described as follows, each of which shall return one member
of the House of Commons.
(a) for the purposes of descriptions of electoral districts,
the term "regional county municipality" means a corporation having jurisdiction
over a territory in respect of which letters patent have been issued
pursuant to the provisions of Division 1, Chapter 1, Title II of the
Land Use Planning and Development Act (Chapter A-19.1 of the
Revised Statutes of Quebec) following the coming into force
of section 12.1 (S.Q., (1979), c. 51, section 251) of the Territorial
Division Act (Chapter D-11) of the Revised Statutes of Quebec;
(b) reference to "boulevard", "road", "street", "river", "highway",
"avenue", "railway", "transmission line", "channel", "bridge", "canal",
"crescent" or "basin" signifies their centre line unless otherwise described;
(c) all villages, cities, towns and Indian reserves lying
within the perimeter of an electoral district are included unless otherwise
described;
(d) wherever a word or expression is used to designate a territorial
division, that word or expression designates the territorial division
as it existed or was delimited on March 1, 2002, EXCEPT where the term
"former" is used to designate a territorial division, e.g. cities, municipalities,
this word or expression designates the territorial division as it existed
or was delimited on:
(i) June 26, 2001, for the former cities of La Plaine, Lachenaie and
Terrebonne;
(ii) December 31, 2001, for the former municipalities of Pintendre,
Pointe-du-Lac, Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures and Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon;
the former parish municipalities of Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-de-Lévy
and Sainte-Hélène-de-Breakeyville; the former cities of
Anjou, Aylmer, Boucherville, Brossard, Buckingham, Cap-de-la-Madeleine,
Cap-Rouge, Charlesbourg, Charny, Côte-Saint-Luc, Dollard-des-Ormeaux,
Dorval, Fleurimont, Gatineau, Greenfield Park, Hampstead, Hull, Lachine,
Lac-Saint-Charles, L’Ancienne-Lorette, LaSalle, LeMoyne, Lennoxville,
Lévis, L’Île-Bizard, Longueuil, Masson-Angers, Montréal,
Montréal-Est, Montréal-Ouest, Mont-Royal, Pierrefonds,
Québec, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Sainte-Foy, Sainte-Marthe-du-Cap,
Saint-Émile, Saint-Hubert, Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Saint-Lambert,
Saint-Laurent, Saint-Léonard, Saint-Louis-de-France, Saint-Nicolas,
Saint-Rédempteur, Saint-Romuald, Sherbrooke, Sillery, Trois-Rivières,
Trois-Rivières-Ouest, Verdun and Westmount; and
(e) the translation of the terms "street", "avenue" and "boulevard"
follows Treasury Board standards. The translation of all other public
thoroughfare designations is based on commonly used terms but has no
official recognition.
The population figure of each electoral district is derived from the
2001 decennial census.
