Communauté métropolitaine de Québec


The Communauté métropolitaine de Québec, or Quebec Metropolitan Community, is an administrative division of the province of Quebec, comprising the metropolitan area of Quebec City. The CMQ is one of the two metropolitan communities of Quebec.

Predecessor

Effective January 1, 1970, the Québec Urban Community was established, which governed the area surrounding Quebec City on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. Together with the CUQ, the Québec Urban Community Transit Commission and the Greater Québec Water Purification Board were also established. Each of the three covered different groups of municipalities:
Historical countyMunicipalityCUQCTCUQBAEQM
Quebec CountyTown of L'Ancienne-Lorette
Quebec CountyBeauport
Quebec CountyBélair
Quebec CountyCharlesbourg
Quebec CountyCharlesbourg-Est
Quebec CountyCharlesbourg-Ouest
Quebec CountyCourville
Quebec CountyDuberger
Quebec CountyGiffard
Quebec CountyLac-Saint-Charles
Quebec CountyParish of L'Ancienne-Lorette
Quebec CountyLoretteville
Quebec CountyMontmorency
Quebec CountyNeufchâtel
Quebec CountyNotre-Dame-des-Laurentides
Quebec CountyOrsainville
Quebec CountyQuebec
Quebec CountySaint-Dunstan-du-Lac-Beauport
Quebec CountySainte-Foy
Quebec CountySaint-Émile
Quebec CountySainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux
Quebec CountySaint-Félix-du-Cap-Rouge
Quebec CountySillery
Quebec CountyVal-St-Michel
Quebec CountyVanier
Quebec CountyVilleneuve
Portneuf CountySaint-Augustin-de-Desmaures
Montmorency No 1 CountySaint-Jean-de-Boischatel

Formation

The CUQ was replaced by the CMQ on January 1, 2002. The CMQ exercised jurisdiction over a wider geographical area.
Quebec was amalgamated with the cities of Beauport, Cap-Rouge, Charlesbourg, L'Ancienne-Lorette, Lac-Saint-Charles, Loretteville, Saint-Émile, Sainte-Foy, Sillery, Val-Bélair, Vanier and Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures. In the 2006 demerger, L'Ancienne-Lorette and Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures regained separate status.
Lévis was amalgamated with Charny, Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Saint-Nicolas, Saint-Rédempteur, Saint-Romuald, Pintendre, Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon, Sainte-Hélène-de-Breakeyville and Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-de-Lévy.

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