Rivière-du-Loup
| Rivière-du-Loup | ||
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| City | ||
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Rivière-du-Loup at sunset | ||
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 Location within Rivière-du-Loup RCM. | ||
  Rivière-du-Loup Location in eastern Quebec. | ||
| Coordinates: 47°50′N 69°32′W / 47.833°N 69.533°WCoordinates: 47°50′N 69°32′W / 47.833°N 69.533°W[1] | ||
| Country |
 Canada | |
| Province |
 Quebec | |
| Region | Bas-Saint-Laurent | |
| RCM | Rivière-du-Loup | |
| Settled | 1850 as Fraserville | |
| Constituted | December 30, 1998 | |
| Government[2] | ||
| • Mayor | Gaétan Gamache | |
| • Federal riding | Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup | |
| • Prov. riding | Rivière-du-Loup–Témiscouata | |
| Area[2][3] | ||
| • City | 138.40 km2 (53.44 sq mi) | |
| • Land | 84.23 km2 (32.52 sq mi) | |
| • Urban[4] | 17.77 km2 (6.86 sq mi) | |
| • Metro[5] | 472.91 km2 (182.59 sq mi) | |
| Population (2011)[3] | ||
| • City | 19,447 | |
| • Density | 230.9/km2 (598/sq mi) | |
| • Urban[4] | 17,086 | |
| • Urban density | 961.3/km2 (2,490/sq mi) | |
| • Metro[5] | 27,734 | |
| • Metro density | 58.6/km2 (152/sq mi) | |
| • Pop 2006-2011 |
 4.6% | |
| • Dwellings | 9,537 | |
| Time zone | EST (UTC−5) | |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) | |
| Postal code(s) | G5R | |
| Area code(s) | 418 and 581 | |
Highways   A-20 (TCH)  A-85 (TCH) |
 Route 132  Route 191 Route 291 | |
| Website |
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Rivière-du-Loup (2011 population 19,447) is a small city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The city is the seat for the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and the judicial district of Kamouraska.[6]
History
The city was named after the nearby river, whose name means Wolf's River in French. This name may have come from a native tribe known as "Les Loups" or from the many seals, known in French as loup-marin (sea wolves), once found at the river's mouth.
Rivière-du-Loup was originally established in 1673 as the seigneurie of Sieur Charles-Aubert de la Chesnaye. The community was incorporated as the village of Fraserville, in honour of early English settler Alexandre Fraser, in 1850, and became a city in 1910. The city reverted to its original name, Rivière-du-Loup, in 1919.
Between 1850 and 1919, the city saw large increases in its anglophone population. Most of them left the region by the 1950s. 1% of the population still speaks English as its first language.
The city is known for its spectacular sunsets.
Transportation
Rivière-du-Loup is a traditional stopping point between Quebec City, the Maritimes and the Gaspé Peninsula. The Trans-Canada Highway turns south here, transferring from Autoroute 20 to Autoroute 85 and continuing southerly to Edmundston, New Brunswick.
There is a ferry which crosses the river (fleuve St Laurent) to Saint-Siméon on the north shore.
The city is also served by the Rivière-du-Loup Airport (IATA airport code YRI). The town can also be reached by Via Rail.
Media
Television
Rivière-du-Loup is an unusual television market, as each of its stations has two transmitters in the city. As a result of the region's hilly geography, viewers in the lower, western portions of the city frequently experience signal dropout. This makes it all but impossible for a television station to serve the entire area with a single transmitter. Accordingly, each station in the city has both a primary transmitter and a "nested" low-power rebroadcaster to serve viewers in the western part of the city who cannot receive the primary signal.
Additionally, the city is served by Canada's only triple-stick operation, in which all three of its licensed stations are owned by the same company, Télé Inter-Rives.
- Channel 7 (13) - CKRT-DT (Ici Radio-Canada)
- Channel 9 (6) - CIMT-DT (TVA)
- Channel 29 (11) - CFTF-DT (V)
Rivière-du-Loup is a mandatory market for digital television conversion; Télé Inter-Rives converted all of its transmitters to digital.
Unlike most cities in Quebec, Rivière-du-Loup has no local Télé-Québec outlet, though Rimouski's CIVB-DT is available on the Vidéotron system in Rivière-du-Loup.
Radio
- FM 89.5 - CJBR-FM-1, Ici Radio-Canada Première
- FM 90.7 - CBRX-FM-3, Ici Musique
- FM 103.7 - CIEL-FM, AC
- FM 107.1 - CIBM-FM, CHR
- FM 107.9 - CIBM-FM-1 (local CIBM rebroadcaster)
People
Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister, had a summer home in Rivière-du-Loup.
People born there include:
- Nicolas Dickner, writer
- Dr. John McLoughlin, known as "the father of Oregon"
- Maurice Arthur Pope, soldier and diplomat.
- Allan Sirois, professional hockey player
- Alexandre-Antonin Taché, first Archbishop of Saint Boniface
See also
- List of cities in Quebec
References
- ↑ Reference number 351673 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (French)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Geographic code 12072 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (French)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "(Code 2412072) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "(Code 0712) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "(Code 405) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.. The census agglomeration consists of Rivière-du-Loup, Cacouna, Notre-Dame-du-Portage, Saint-Antonin, Saint-Modeste. In the 2006 census, the census agglomeration had not included Cacouna.
- ↑ Territorial Division Act. Revised Statutes of Quebec D-11.
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Saint-Siméon Saint Lawrence River |
Baie-Sainte-Catherine Saint Lawrence River |
Cacouna Saint-Arsène |
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| Saint-André Saint Lawrence River |
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Saint-Modeste | ||
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| Notre-Dame-du-Portage | Saint-Antonin |
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