Bas-Saint-Laurent Administrative Region, Quebec (Canada)

Region: 01

Last modified: 2022-04-09 by rob raeside
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• Regional Overview
• Flag information about Municipalités régionales de comté (MRC/counties)
• Flag information about Municipalities

See also:

• Quebec subdivisions
• Quebec
• Société historique et généalogique de Trois-Pistoles

Regional Overview

Alternative name: Bas-du-Fleuve.

1966: Bas-Saint-Laurent/Gaspésie Administrative Region is created.
1987: Bas-Saint-Laurent/Gaspésie is split into Bas-Saint-Laurent and Gaspésie/Îles-de-la-Madeleine.

Counties (MRC):

• Kamouraska
• La Matanie*
• La Matapédia*
• La Mitis*
• Les Basques
• Rimouski-Neigette
• Rivière-du-Loup
• Témiscouata

*These three counties are not part of the Bas-Saint-Laurent tourism region; they are part of Gaspésie.

Municipalités régionales de comté flag information
(MRC/counties)

La Matapédia:
Jean-Guy Leblanc, from Maria Quebec, reported a white flag with the county logo in the Summer of 1997. The website shows a logo on a flag shape outline, though details are lacking at this point to reconstruct it more precisely.

Municipal flag information

• Amqui
• Baie-des-Sables
• Cabano
• Dégelis
• Grosses-Roches
• Kamouraska
• La Pocatière
• Matane
• Mont-Joli
• Price
• Rimouski
• Rivière-du-Loup
• Rivière-Ouelle
• Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska
• Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici
• Saint-Denis-De La Bouteillerie
• Saint-Eugène-de-Ladrière
• Sainte-Flavie
• Saint-Léandre
• Sainte-Luce
• Saint-René-de-Matane
• Saint-Simon-de-Rimouski (Les Basques)
• Saint-Tharcisius
• Saint-Ulric
• Trois-Pistoles

Incomplete Information

• Ville d'Amqui (La Matapédia):
  I have a photo, taken in the Fall of 1998, of a white flag with the full arms centered and the name of the city in black letters underneath. The flag belongs to James Croft.
• Village de Price (La Mitis):
  A photo on the village's website in the Spring of 2005 shows a white flag in front of city hall.