Frontenac County was a county of Quebec, Canada. It existed between 1912 and the early 1980s.Acte des municipalités et des chemins de 1855 The territory it covered is today divided into the regional county municipalities of Le Granit in the administrative regions of the Estrie and Beauce-Sartigan in Chaudière-Appalaches. Its capital was the municipality of Lac-Mégantic.
The county was created in 1912 from parts of the counties of Compton and Beauce.Histoire politique de Frontenac. QuébecPolitique.com. Gazette officielle du Québec, 16 April 1912, p. 858
The county name comes from that of the governor of New France, Louis de Buade de Frontenac.
The county was formed in 19 townships. The townships in Compton County were Winslow, Whitton, Marston, Chesham and Clinton. The townships from Beauce County were Price, Lambton, Adstock, Aylmer, Forsyth, Woburn, Dorset, Gayhurst, Spalding, Ditchfield, Louise and Risborough as well as parts of Shenley and Marlow.
Municipalities located within the county
Municipalities in Compton County (prior to 1912) Frontenac (called the United Counties of Spaulding and Ditchfield until 1959)Banque de noms de lieux du Québec, entrée Frontenac Lac-Mégantic (called Mégantic until 1958)Banque de noms de lieux du Québec, entrée Lac-Mégantic Marston Milan Nantes (called Whitton until 1957)Banque de noms de lieux du Québec, entrée Nantes Notre-Dame-des-Bois (called Chesham until 1958)Banque de noms de lieux du Québec, entrée Notre-Dame-des-Bois Piopolis (called Marston-Partie-Sud until 1958)Banque de noms de lieux du Québec, entrée Piopolis Sainte-Cécile-de-Whitton Saint-Romain (called Winslow North until 1962)Banque de noms de lieux du Québec, entrée Saint-Romain Stornoway (called Winslow South until 1973)Banque de noms de lieux du Québec, entrée Stornoway Val-Racine (called Saint-Léon-de-Marston until 1957)Banque de noms de lieux du Québec, entrée Val-Racine
Municipalities in Beauce County (prior to 1912) Saint-Méthode-de-Frontenac (called Saint-Méthode d'Adstock until 1945, merged with Adstock in 2001)Banque de noms de lieux du Québec, entrée Saint-Méthode-de-Frontenac Lambton Lac-Mégantic Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce Courcelles-Saint-Évariste (Courcelles and Saint-Évariste-de-Forsyth merged in 2024) Saint-Sébastien Lac-Drolet (called Saint-Samuel-de-Gayhurst until 1968)Banque de noms de lieux du Québec, entrée Lac-Drolet Audet (called Saint-Hubert-de-Spaulding until 1959)Banque de noms de lieux du Québec, entrée Audet Saint-Ludger Saint-Robert-Bellarmin Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset
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