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La Tuque (lä tük), town (1991 pop. 10,003), S Que., Canada, on the St. Maurice River, NW of Quebec. La Tuque, in a lumbering and farming region, was established as a trading post in the French period; it grew after the coming of the railroad in 1908. It is a pulp and paper center with a hydroelectric power station.

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Ville de La Tuque

Coat of arms
Motto: Industriis et labore cresco
(Industry and work to grow)
Ville de La Tuque is located in Quebec
Ville de La Tuque
Ville de La Tuque
Location in Quebec, Canada
Coordinates: 47°27′N 72°47′W / 47.45°N 72.783°W / 47.45; -72.783
Country  Canada
Province  Quebec
Region Mauricie
Census division La Tuque
Government [1]
 - Type City
 - Mayor Réjean Gaudreault
Area [2]
 - Land 25,104.59 km2 (9,692.9 sq mi)
 - Urban 25.84 km2 (10 sq mi)
 - Metro 25,431.76 km2 (9,819.3 sq mi)
Population (2006)[2]
 - City 11,821
 - Density 0.5/km2 (1.3/sq mi)
 - Urban 9,716
 - Urban Density 376.0/km2 (973.8/sq mi)
 - Metro 15,293
 - Metro Density 0.6/km2 (1.6/sq mi)
Time zone EST (UTC-5)
 - Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
Area code(s) 819

La Tuque is a city in south central Quebec, Canada on the Saint-Maurice River, between Trois-Rivières and Chambord. In 1960 it had a population of just over 11,000 (Latuquois).

La Tuque became the largest municipality in land area in Quebec, and second largest in Canada (38,000 km²) after it was merged with the village of Parent, the municipalities of La Bostonnais, La Croche, and Lac-Édouard, and the unorganized territories of Kiskissink, Lac-Berlinguet, Lac-des-Moires, Lac-Pellerin, Lac-Tourlay, Obedjiwan, Petit-Lac-Wayagamac, and Rivière-Windigo on March 26, 2003. The former city of La Tuque had itself been formed from the merger of La Tuque and La Tuque Falls in 1911.

The name, which dates to the eighteenth century, originates from a nearby rock formation which resembles the well-known French-Canadian hat known as the tuque. In 1823-24, the explorer François Verreault described the location as

un Portage nommé Ushabatshuan (le courant trop fort pour le sauter). Les Voyageurs le nomment la Tuque, à cause d'une Montagne haute, dont le pic resemble à une Tuque. Ce portage est d'une lieue, avec des fortes côtes à monter.
("a portage named Ushabatshuan ('the rapids too strong to jump'). The voyageurs call it La Tuque, due to a tall mountain whose peak resembles a tuque. The portage is a league long, and climbs steep slopes.")

The local economy centres on pulp and paper; the city has a pulp-milling centre as well as a major hydroelectric station. The local scenery offers tourism opportunities as well; the city is known as the Queen of Haute-Mauricie and the Classique internationale de canots de la Mauricie canoeing race begins at La Tuque.

Contents

List of Mayors

The Mayor is the municipality's highest elected official. La Tuque has had fifteen mayors, since its incorporation as a city. [3]

# Mayor Taking Office Leaving
1 Wenceslas Plante 1911 1915
2 Alphondor Roy 1915 1920
3 Donat E. Hardy 1920 1921
4 Wellie Juneau 1921 1921
5 Réal Gravel 1921 1923
1 Wenceslas Plante 1923 1927
6 François-Xavier Lamontagne 1927 1935
7 Joseph-Omer Journeault [4] 1935 1944
8 Omer Veillette 1944 1947
7 Joseph-Omer Journeault 1947 1951
9 Léo-Joffre Pilon [5] 1951 1955
10 J.-Onésime Dallaire 1955 1961
11 Lucien Filion [6] 1961 1985 [7]
12 Clément Filion 1985 1985
13 André Duchesneau 1985 1991
14 Gaston Fortin [8] 1991 2003
15 Réjean Gaudreault [9] 2003 Current

Famous residents

  • Félix Leclerc, poet and singer
  • Thérèse Dion, mother of world renowned Canadian French singer Céline Dion, grew up in La Tuque.
  • Sylvie Roy, politician
  • Maude Guérin, actress
  • Steven Guilbault, environmentalist (See French Wikipedia)
  • Jean-Jacqui Boutet, actor (See French Wikipedia)
  • Dominique Trottier, TV reporter (See French Wikipedia)

See also

References

  1. ^ Municipalité: La Tuque - Répertoire des municipalités du Québec - MAMR, retrieved September 23, 2007
  2. ^ a b Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2006 and 2001 censuses - 100% data - Statistics Canada, retrieved September 23, 2007
  3. ^ Liste des maires, Ville de La Tuque, 1909 à 2009
  4. ^ Journeault ran as a Bloc Populaire candidate in the provincial election of 1944 in the district of Laviolette. He finished third.
  5. ^ Pilon ran as a Liberal candidate in the 1952 and the 1956 provincial elections in the district of Laviolette. He was each time defeated by incumbent Romulus Ducharme.
  6. ^ Lucien Filion ran as a Union Nationale candidate in the provincial election of 1970 in the district of Laviolette. He finished third.
  7. ^ Lucien Filion dies in office on September 22, 1985.
  8. ^ Fortin ran as a Union Nationale candidate in the provincial election of 1976 and as a Liberal candidate in the provincial election of 1994 in the district of Laviolette. Each time he lost to Jean-Pierre Jolivet.
  9. ^ Gaudreault admits that he generally supports the Parti Québécois in provincial elections, even though municipal elections in La Tuque are officially on a non-partisan basis. Patrick Vaillancourt, Le maire Gaudreault approché par le PQ, L'Hebdo Mékinac des Chenaux, November 13, 2008

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