Bonaventure Regional County Municipality, Quebec

Bonaventure Regional County Municipality is a regional county municipality in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of eastern Quebec, Canada, on the Gaspé Peninsula. The regional county municipality seat is New Carlisle.

Contents 1 Subdivisions 2 Attractions 3 Protected Areas 4 Highways 5 Demographics

Subdivisions

Cities

• Bonaventure
• New Richmond
• Paspébiac

Municipalities

• Caplan
• Cascapédia–Saint-Jules
• Hope Town
• New Carlisle
• Saint-Alphonse
• Saint-Elzéar
• Shigawake

Parish Municipality

• Saint-Siméon

Township Municipalities

• Hope
• Saint-Godefroi

Unorganized Territory

• Rivière-Bonaventure

Attractions

• Banc-de-Paspébiac Historical Site (Paspébiac)
• Bonaventure Airport (Bonaventure)
• Canomore Hydro (Saint-Elzéar)
• Gaspésie Biopark/Acadian Museum of Quebec (Bonaventure)
• Gaspésie British Heritage Centre (New Richmond)
• Hamilton House (1852) (New Carlisle)
• Pin-Rouge Ski Area (New Richmond)
• Saint-Elzéar Cave (Saint-Elzéar)
• St-Edgar Covered Bridge (1938) (New Richmond)

Protected Areas

• Petite-Cascapédia Wildlife Reserve
• Port-Daniel Wildlife Reserve
  • MLPC Campaign Post
• Rivière-Bonaventure ZEC
• Rivière-Cascapédia Wildlife Reserve
• Rivière-Port-Daniel Wildlife Reserve

Highways

Highways in Bonaventure include:

• Route 132
• Route 299

Demographics

(Statistics Canada, 2001)

• Population: 18,267
• Population change (1996-2001): -6.6
• Dwellings: 7,808
• Area (km²): 4,375.15
• Density (per km².): 4.2
• National rank in terms of population: 240
• Provincial rank in terms of population: 82

	La Matapédia RCM	La Haute-Gaspésie RCM	La Côte-de-Gaspé RCM
	Avignon RCM		Le Rocher-Percé RCM
		Bonaventure RCM
	Chaleur Bay / Restigouche County, New Brunswick	Chaleur Bay / Gloucester County, New Brunswick

Administrative divisions of Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine  (Region 11) Regional county municipalities and equivalent territories Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine · Le Rocher-Percé · La Côte-de-Gaspé · La Haute-Gaspésie · Bonaventure · Avignon Municipalities Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine · Percé · Grande-Rivière · Chandler · Gaspé · Murdochville · Sainte-Anne-des-Monts · Cap-Chat · Paspébiac · Bonaventure · New Richmond · Carleton-sur-Mer Administrative divisions of Quebec