Matchi-Manitou

Matchi-Manitou is an unorganized territory in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec, Canada. It is one of five unorganized territories in La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality.

Matchi-Manitou
Unorganized territory
Location within La Vallée-de-l'Or RCM
Matchi-Manitou Location in western Quebec
Coordinates: 48°01′N 77°03′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Abitibi-Témiscamingue
RCM	La Vallée-de-l'Or
Constituted	January 1, 1986
Government [2]
• Federal riding	Abitibi—Baie-James— Nunavik—Eeyou
• Prov. riding	Abitibi-Est
Area [2][3]
• Total	164.58 km2 (63.54 sq mi)
• Land	164.77 km2 (63.62 sq mi)
	There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources
Population  (2021)[3]
• Total	0
• Density	0.0/km2 (0/sq mi)
• Pop (2006-21)	0.0%
• Dwellings	0
Time zone	UTC−05:00 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−04:00 (EDT)
Highways	No major routes

Until July 6, 1996, Matchi-Manitou was a vast unorganized territory encompassing a land area of 16,760 km² (6,470 sq mi). On that day, most of it was added to the City of Senneterre and a smaller portion to the City of Val-d'Or. It retained only two small non-contiguous areas, of which its eastern part is a section of land straddling both banks of the Chochocouane River and mostly part of the La Vérendrye Wildlife Reserve.

It is named after Matchi-Manitou Lake (48°00′45″N 77°02′56″W),^[4] which used to be within its limits, but since 1996 is part of Senneterre and Val-d'Or. Its name is taken from both the Cree and Innu languages and means "evil spirit".^[5]

Demographics

Population:

Historical census populations – Matchi-Manitou

Year Pop. ±% 1986 251 —     1991 240 −4.4% 1996 241 +0.4% 2001 0 −100.0%	Year Pop. ±% 2006 0 0.00% 2011 0 0.00% 2016 0 0.00% 2021 0 0.00%
Population counts are not adjusted for boundary changes. Source: Statistics Canada[3][6]