Shawinigan
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| Eik-name(s): The Ceety o Electricity | |||||
| Motto: Age Quod Agis (Dae whit ye are daein) | |||||
  Shawinigan
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| Coordinates (550, avenue de l'Hôtel-de-Ville[1]): 46°34′N 72°45′W / 46.567°N 72.75°W[2] | |||||
| Kintra |  Canadae |
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| Province |  Quebec |
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| Region | Mauricie | ||||
| RCM | Nane | ||||
| Settled | 1851 | ||||
| Constitutit | 1 Januar 2002 | ||||
| Govrenment | |||||
| - Mayor | Michel Angers | ||||
| - Federal riding | Saint-Maurice—Champlain | ||||
| - Prov. riding | Laviolette an Saint-Maurice | ||||
| Aurie[1][3] | |||||
| - Ceety | 798.80 km2 (308.4 sq mi) | ||||
| - Laund | 733.48 km2 (283.2 sq mi) | ||||
| - Urban[4] | 109.93 km2 (42.4 sq mi) | ||||
| - Metro[5] | 987.14 km2 (381.1 sq mi) | ||||
| Indwallers (2011)[3] | |||||
| - Ceety | 50,060 | ||||
| - Densitie | 68.2/km2 (176.6/sq mi) | ||||
| - Urban[4] | 47,735 | ||||
| - Urban densitie |
434.3/km2 (1,124.8/sq mi) | ||||
| - Metro[5] | 55,009 | ||||
| - Metro densitie |
55.7/km2 (144.3/sq mi) | ||||
| - Chynge (2006–11) |  3.6% |
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| - Dwallins | 26,302 | ||||
| Time zone | EST (UTC−5) | ||||
| - Simmer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) | ||||
| Postal code(s) | G9N tae G9T | ||||
| Aurie code(s) | 819 | ||||
| Wabsteid | shawinigan.ca | ||||
Shawinigan is a ceety locatit on the Saint-Maurice River in the Mauricie aurie in Quebec, Canadae. It haed a population o 50,060 as o the Canada 2011 Census.
Shawinigan is an aw a territory equivalent tae a regional coonty municipality (TE) an census diveesion (CD) o Quebec, coextensive wi the ceety o Shawinigan. Its geographical code is 36. Shawinigan is the seat o the judicial destrict o Saint-Maurice.[6]
The name Shawinigan haes haed numerous spellins ower time: Chaouinigane, Oshaouinigane, Assaouinigane, Achawénégan, Chawinigame, Shawenigane, Chaouénigane. It mey mean "sooth portage", "portage o beeches", "angular portage", or "summit" or "crest".[2] Afore 1958, the city wis kent as Shawinigan Faws.
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Famous fowk [edit]
The ceety is hame til:
- Jean Chrétien, Prime Meenister o Canadae frae 1993 tae 2003
- Carole Laure, actress
- Jacques Plante, NHL goaltender
Sister ceeties [edit]
Footnotes [edit]
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedmamrot - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Shawinigan (Ville) (French). Commission de toponymie du Québec. Retrieved on 11 Februar 2010. .
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedcp2011 - ↑ 4.0 4.1 Shawinigan (Population centre), Quebec 2011 Census profile
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Shawinigan (Census agglomeration), Quebec 2011 Census profile. The census agglomeration consists of Shawinigan, Saint-Boniface, Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac. In the 2006 census, the census agglomeration had included Grandes-Piles, but had not included Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac.
- ↑ Territorial Division Act. Revised Statutes of Quebec D-11.
Freemit airtins [edit]
- (French) Shawinigan offeecial steid
- Tourisme Mauricie Regional tourist office
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