Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière Regional County Municipality

Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière (French pronunciation: [le ʃyt də la ʃodjɛʁ]) was a regional county municipality and census division in Quebec. It and Desjardins Regional County Municipality were formed from the division of Lévis County in the 1980s. It ceased to exist when most of it, along with most of Desjardins RCM, amalgamated into the expanded city of Lévis on January 1, 2002.

Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 46°42′N 71°17′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
Effective	January 1982[1]
Dissolved	December 31, 2001
Government
• Type	Prefecture
Area [1][2]
• Total	419 km2 (162 sq mi)
• Land	422.26 km2 (163.04 sq mi)
	There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources
Population  (2001)[2]
• Total	78,808
• Density	186.6/km2 (483/sq mi)
• Change (1996–2001)	4.2%
• Dwellings	30,179
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Area code	418

Subdivisions

Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière RCM consisted of:

• Charny
• Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon
• Saint-Jean-Chrysostome
• Saint-Nicolas
• Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon
• Saint-Rédempteur
• Saint-Romuald
• Sainte-Hélène-de-Breakeyville

Dissolution

When Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière RCM was dissolved, nearly all of its components amalgamated into the newly expanded Lévis:

• Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon, Saint-Nicolas, Saint-Redempteur composed the borough of Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Ouest.
• Charny, Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Saint-Romuald, and Sainte-Hélène-de-Breakeyville composed the borough of Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Est.
• Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon remained independent and joined La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality.

See also

• 21st-century municipal history of Quebec