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The following is a list of the types of local and supralocal territorial units in Quebec, Canada, including those used solely for statistical purposes, as defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy and compiled by the Institut de la statistique du Québec

Not included are the urban agglomerations in Quebec, which, although they group together multiple municipalities, exercise only what are ordinarily local municipal powers.

A list of local municipal units in Quebec by regional county municipality can be found at List of municipalities in Quebec.

Local municipalities

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All municipalities (except cities), whether township, village, parish, or unspecified ones, are functionally and legally identical. The only difference is that the designation might serve to disambiguate between otherwise identically named municipalities, often neighbouring ones. Many such cases have had their names changed, or merged with the identically named nearby municipality since the 1950s, such as the former Township of Granby and City of Granby merging and becoming the Town of Granby in 2007.

Municipalities are governed primarily by the Code municipal du Québec (Municipal Code of Québec, R.S.Q. c. C-27.1), whereas cities and towns are governed by the Loi sur les cités et villes (Cities and Towns Act, R.S.Q. c. C-19) as well as (in the case of the older ones) various individual charters.

The very largest communities in Quebec are colloquially called cities; however there are currently no municipalities under the province's current legal system classified as cities. Quebec's government uses the English term town as the translation for the French term ville, and township for canton. The least-populated towns in Quebec (Barkmere, with a population of about 60, or L'Île-Dorval, with less than 10) are much smaller than the most populous municipalities of other types (Saint-Charles-Borromée and Sainte-Sophie, each with populations of over 13,300).

The title city (French: cité code=C) still legally exists, with a few minor differences from that of ville. However it is moot since there are no longer any cities in existence. Dorval and Côte Saint-Luc had the status of city when they were amalgamated into Montreal on January 1, 2002 as part of the municipal reorganization in Quebec; however, when re-constituted as independent municipalities on January 1, 2006, it was with the status of town (French: ville) (although the municipal government of Dorval still uses the name Cité de Dorval).

Prior to January 1, 1995, the code for municipalité was not M but rather SD (sans désignation; that is, unqualified municipality).

Aboriginal local municipal units

Prior to 2004, there was a single code, TR, to cover the modern-day TC and TK. When the distinction between TC and TK was introduced, it was made retroactive to 1984, date of the federal Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act (S.C. 1984, c. 18).

Territories equivalent to local municipalities

Submunicipal units

There is also a different kind of submunicipal unit, unconstituted localities, which is defined and tracked not by the Quebec Ministry of Municipal Affairs but by Statistics Canada.

Supralocal units

See also

• Administrative divisions of Quebec

References

1. "A tract of federally owned land with specific boundaries that is set apart for the use and benefit of an Indian band and that is governed by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)."
2. ^ "Parcels of land in Quebec set aside for the permanent residence of Cree First Nations of Quebec. Terres réservées aux Cris are adjacent to villages cris. The area of a village cri is set aside for the use of Cree bands, but members of Cree bands are not permanently residing there. Note that a village cri and its adjacent terre réservée aux Cris can have the same name, e.g., the village cri of Waswanipi and the terre reservée aux Cris of Waswanipi."
3. ^ "Parcels of land in Quebec set aside for the permanent residence of Naskapi First Nations of Quebec. Terres réservées aux Naskapis are adjacent to village Naskapi. The lone area of village Naskapi is set aside for the use of the Naskapi band, although its members do not reside there permanently."
4. A place where a self-contained group of at least 10 Indian (Aboriginal) persons resides more or less permanently. It is usually located on Crown lands under federal or provincial/territorial jurisdiction. Indian settlements have no official limits and have not been set apart for the use and benefit of an Indian band as is the case with Indian reserves.

Notes

1. Municipal Code of Quebec (also in French)
2. Cities and Towns Act (also in French)
3. ^ "Stats Quebec". Quebec government. Archived from the original on 5 February 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
4. In most laws, the term "municipalité de ville" is employed, but it is rarely used otherwise.
5. Quebec, Institut de la Statistique du. "Collection les documents de référence" (PDF). gouv.qc.ca. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 June 2004. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
6. Quebec, Institut de la Statistique du. "Page est introuvable?" (PDF). gouv.qc.ca. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
7. ^ "Census subdivision (CSD)". Statistics Canada. January 3, 2019. Census subdivision types associated with 'on reserve' population. Archived from the original on June 25, 2021. Retrieved August 24, 2021.

External links

Quebec provincial legislation

• An Act respecting municipal territorial organization (also in French)
• An Act respecting Northern villages and the Kativik Regional Government (also in French)
• The Cree Villages and the Naskapi Village Act (also in French)
• An Act respecting the Cree Regional Authority (also in French)
• An Act respecting Cree, Inuit and Naskapi native persons (also in French)
• An Act respecting the land regime in the James Bay and New Québec territories (also in French)

Federal legislation

• Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act (S.C. 1984, c. 18) (also in French)

Other

• Répertoire des municipalités (look up the entry for any municipality)
• Liste complète des types d'entités et leurs définitions (Commission de toponymie)

• Local government in Quebec
• Types of populated places