Rivière-du-Loup
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Rivière-du-Loup at sunset
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| 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 |
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| Province |  Quebec |
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| 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% |
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| • 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 |
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| Website | www |
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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]
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History[edit]
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.[citation needed]
Transportation[edit]
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[edit]
Television[edit]
Rivière-du-Loup is an unusual television market, as each of its stations has two transmitters in the city. The city's hilly terrain causes residents of the lower, western portions of the city to 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 prior to the deadline of August 30, 2011.
Unlike most larger 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[edit]
- 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)
Notable people[edit]
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[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Reference number 351673 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (French)
- ^ a b Geographic code 12072 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (French)
- ^ a b "(Code 2412072) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.
- ^ a b "(Code 0712) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.
- ^ a b "(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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| Notre-Dame-du-Portage | Saint-Antonin |
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