Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality

Le Haut-Saint-François
Regional county municipality
Location of Le Haut-Saint-François
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Estrie
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Cookshire-Eaton
Government
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Robert G. Roy
Area
• Total	2,307.50 km2 (890.93 sq mi)
• Land	2,273.39 km2 (877.76 sq mi)
Population (2016)
• Total	22,335
• Density	9.8/km2 (25/sq mi)
• Change 2011-2016	1.2%
Time zone	EST (UTC−5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−4)
Area code(s)	819
Website	www.mrchsf.com

Le Haut-Saint-François (French pronunciation: ​[lə o sɛ̃ fʁɑ̃swa]; The Upper Saint-François [St. Francis]) is a regional county municipality in southeastern Quebec, Canada in the Estrie region. Its seat is in Cookshire-Eaton, and it is named for the Saint-François River which runs through the RCM.

Subdivisions

There are 14 subdivisions within the RCM:

Cities & towns (3)

• Cookshire-Eaton
• East Angus
• Scotstown

Municipalities (8)

• Ascot Corner
• Bury
• Chartierville
• Dudswell
• La Patrie
• Newport
• Saint-Isidore-de-Clifton
• Weedon

Townships (3)

• Hampden
• Lingwick
• Westbury

Demographics

Mother tongue data, from Canada 2016 Census:

Language	Population	Pct (%)
French only	19,580	88.3%
English only	2,195	9.9%
Both English and French	205	0.9%
Other languages	200	0.9%

Transportation

Access routes

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

• Autoroutes
  • None

• Principal highways
  • Route 108
  • Route 112
  • Route 161

• Secondary highways
  • Route 210
  • Route 212
  • Route 214
  • Route 251
  • Route 253
  • Route 255
  • Route 257

• External routes
  • US 3

See also

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec