Beauce-Sartigan is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. The county seat is Saint-Georges.
The Chaudière River flows through it. It shares its eastern border with Maine, United States.
The name of the RCM is linked to the historical region of which it is part, Beauce. Sartigan is a distortion of Mechatigan (or Msakkikhan), the name given to the Chaudière River by the native Abenakis.
Subdivisions There are 16 subdivisions within the RCM:
Cities & Towns (1) Saint-Georges
Municipalities (9) Courcelles-Saint-Évariste Saint-Benoît-Labre Saint-Côme–Linière Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley Saint-Philibert Saint-Simon-les-Mines Saint-Théophile
Parishes (4) Notre-Dame-des-Pins Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset Saint-Martin Saint-René
Villages (2) Lac-Poulin La Guadeloupe
Demographics Ethnicity Source: 2016 Census 96.2% White 2.8% Aboriginal 1.0% Visible Minority
Transportation Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:Official Transport Quebec Road Map
Autoroutes
Principal Highways
Secondary Highways
External Routes
Attractions Centre d'art de Saint-Georges (Saint-Georges) Centre Marie-Fitzbach (Saint-Georges) Magasin général Honoré Grégoire (Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley) Musée d'autos antiques Victor-Bélanger (Saint-Côme–Linière) Pont couvert Perreault (1928) (Notre-Dame-des-Pins) Saint-Georges Airport (Saint-Georges) Saint-Paul-de-Cumberland Church (1847) (Saint-Simon-les-Mines) Village miniature Baillargeon (Saint-Georges)
See also List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec Beauce, Quebec
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