Maps, Proposed Boundaries and Names of Electoral Districts

There shall be in the Province of Quebec seventy-five (75) electoral districts, named and described as follows, each of which shall return one member.

In the following descriptions:

(a) for the purposes of descriptions of electoral districts, "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 "boulevards", "streets", "rivers", "highways", "places", "roads", "creeks", "drives", "avenues", "railways", "transmission lines", "channels", "trails", "bridges", "montées", "squares", "exchanges", "canals", "crescents", "basins", "ways" or "tributaries" signifies their centre line unless otherwise described;

(c) all villages, cities, towns and Indian reserves lying within the perimeter of the 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 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 Pointe-du-Lac, Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures and Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon; the former Village Municipality of Senneville; the former cities of Beaconsfield, Beauport, Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Cap-Rouge, Charlesbourg, Côte-Saint-Luc, Fleurimont, Hampstead, Kirkland, L'Ancienne-Lorette, Lac-Saint-Charles, LaSalle, Lennoxville, Loretteville, Montréal, Montréal-Est, Montréal-Ouest, Pierrefonds, Québec, Roxboro, Sainte-Foy, Sainte-Marthe-du-Cap, Saint-Émile, Saint-Léonard, Saint-Louis-de-France, Saint-Nicolas, Sherbrooke, Sillery, Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières-Ouest, Val-Bélair and Westmount;

(iii) February 17, 2002 for the fomer Municipality of Lac-Kénogami; the former cities of Chicoutimi, Jonquière, La Baie and Laterrière;

(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.

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