Communauté métropolitaine de Québec

Communauté métropolitaine de Québec
Communauté métropolitaine de Québec; Québec Metropolitan Community
	Metropolitan area
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	Communauté métropolitaine de Québec Location in central Quebec
	Coordinates: 46°49′N 71°13′W / 46.817°N 71.217°WCoordinates: 46°49′N 71°13′W / 46.817°N 71.217°W
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Area
• Total	3,349.12 km2 (1,293.10 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	765,706
• Density	228.6/km2 (592/sq mi)
Time zone	EST (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
Postal code prefixes	G
Area code(s)	819, 873

The Communauté métropolitaine de Québec (CMQ), or Quebec Metropolitan Community, is an administrative division of the province of Quebec, comprising the metropolitan area of Quebec City. The CMQ is one of the two metropolitan communities of Quebec.

Predecessor[edit]

From 1970 to 2001,^[2] the Communauté urbaine de Québec governed the area surrounding Quebec City on the north shore:

Formation of the *Communauté urbaine de Québec* in 1969^[3]
Sector	Municipalities
1	Quebec
2	Saint-Félix-du-Cap-Rouge Sainte-Foy Sillery
3	Parish of L'Ancienne-Lorette Bélair Lac-Saint-Charles Loretteville Neufchâtel Town of L'Ancienne-Lorette Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides Saint-Émile Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures Val-St-Michel
4	Charlesbourg Charlesbourg-Est Charlesbourg-Ouest Duberger Les Saules Orsainville Vanier
5	Beauport Courville Giffard Montmorency Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux Villeneuve

In the years following the establishing of the CUQ, various changes occurred among the constituent municipalities:

in 1970, Duberger and Les Saules amalgamated with Quebec
in 1971, Neufchâtel amalgamated with Quebec, and the Parish of L'Ancienne-Lorette amalgamated with Sainte-Foy
in 1973, Charlesbourg-Ouest amalgamated with Quebec
in 1974, Bélair and Val-St-Michel amalgamated to form Val-Bélair
in 1976, Charlesbourg-Est, Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides and Orsainville amalgamated with Charlesbourg
in 1976, Courville, Giffard, Montmorency, Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux and Villeneuve, together with Saint-Michel-Archange, amalgamated with Beauport
in 1983, Saint-Félix-du-Cap-Rouge changed its name to Cap-Rouge

The CUQ was replaced by the CMQ on January 1, 2002.

Quebec was amalgamated with the cities of Beauport, Cap-Rouge, Charlesbourg, L'Ancienne-Lorette, Lac-Saint-Charles, Loretteville, Saint-Émile, Sainte-Foy, Sillery, Val-Bélair, Vanier and Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures. In the 2006 demerger, L'Ancienne-Lorette and Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures regained separate status.

Municipalities in the Quebec Metropolitan Community and Quebec Census Metropolitan Area (CMA)^[4]^[5]
Regional county municipality or urban agglomeration(where applicable)	In Metropolitan Community	In CMA only
Urban agglomeration of Quebec City	Quebec City^{[a 1]} L'Ancienne-Lorette Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures	Notre-Dame-des-Anges^{[a 2]} Wendake^{[a 3]}
Lévis (Equivalent territory)^{[a 4]}
Bellechasse Regional County Municipality		Beaumont Saint-Henri
La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality	Beaupré^{[a 5]} Boischatel Château-Richer L'Ange-Gardien Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré^{[a 5]} Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges^{[a 5]} Saint-Joachim^{[a 5]} Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague-du-Cap-Tourmente^{[a 5]} Saint-Tite-des-Caps^{[a 5]}
L'Île-d'Orléans Regional County Municipality	Sainte-Famille Saint-François-de-l'Île-d'Orléans Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans Sainte-Pétronille Saint-Pierre-de-l'Île-d'Orléans
La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality	Fossambault-sur-le-Lac Lac-Beauport Lac-Delage Lac-Saint-Joseph Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier Shannon Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury
La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality		Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon
Portneuf Regional County Municipality		Neuville

^ subdivided into the boroughs of Beauport, Charlesbourg, La Cité-Limoilou, La Haute-Saint-Charles, Les Rivières and Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge
^ enclave within the borough of La Cité-Limoilou, not part of the urban agglomeration
^ Huron-Wendat reserve, an enclave within the borough of La Haute-Saint-Charles, not part of the urban agglomeration
^ subdivided into the boroughs of Desjardins, Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Ouest and Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Est
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f not part of the CMA

^ ^a ^b "Census Profile - Quebec Census Metropolitan Area". Canada 2011 Census. Statistics Canada. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
^ "Communauté urbaine de Québec". Public Works and Government Services Canada.
^ Bureau de la statistique du Québec, ed. (1971). Annuaire du Québec 1971 (in French) (51st ed.). Éditeur officiel du Québec. p. 27.
^ "Territoire de la CMQ et de la RMR de Québec" (in French). Communauté métropolitaine de Québec. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
^ "Geographic hierarchy: Québec (Census metropolitan area)". Statistics Canada. Retrieved March 8, 2014.