Bécancour Regional County Municipality

Bécancour
Regional county municipality
Location in province of Quebec.
Coordinates: 46°19′N 72°11′W
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Centre-du-Québec
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Bécancour
Government
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Poste vacant
Area
• Total	1,231.30 km2 (475.41 sq mi)
• Land	1,144.67 km2 (441.96 sq mi)
Population  (2016)
• Total	20,404
• Density	17.8/km2 (46/sq mi)
• Change 2011-2016	1.6%
• Dwellings	9,947
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Area code	819

Bécancour is a regional county municipality in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is Bécancour.

Subdivisions

There are 12 subdivisions and one native reserve within the RCM:

Cities & Towns (1)

• Bécancour

Municipalities (8)

• Deschaillons-sur-Saint-Laurent
• Fortierville
• Lemieux
• Manseau
• Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets
• Saint-Sylvère
• Sainte-Françoise
• Sainte-Marie-de-Blandford

Parishes (3)

• Parisville
• Sainte-Cécile-de-Lévrard
• Sainte-Sophie-de-Lévrard

Native Reserves (1)
(not associated with RCM)

• Wôlinak

Demographics

Mother tongue from 2016 Canadian Census

Language	Population	Pct (%)
French only	19,550	97.9%
English only	155	0.8%
Both English and French	65	0.3%
Other languages	205	1.0%

Transportation

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:

• Autoroutes
  • A-20 (TCH)
  • A-30
  • A-55

• Principal Highways
  • R-132

• Secondary Highways
  • R-218
  • R-226
  • R-261
  • R-263
  • R-265

• External Routes
  • None

See also

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec

External links

• Official Bécancour Web Site