Laurentides Administrative Region (Quebec) (Canada)

Region: 15

Last modified: 2013-04-13 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

Regional Overview

1966: Montréal Administrative Region created.
1987: The Administrative Regions of Laval, Laurentides, Lanaudière and Montérégie are created out of Montréal.

Counties (1 city*, 7 MRC):

• Antoine-Labelle
• Argenteuil
• Deux-Montagnes
• La Rivière-du-Nord
• Les Laurentides
• Les Pays-d'en-Haut
• Thérèse-De Blainville
• Ville de Mirabel*

Municipalités régionales de comté flag information
(MRC/counties)

• Deux-Montagnes:
  I saw the MRC flag in March 2002. A narrow white stripe at the hoist with the county arms, the fly was blue with M.R.C. Deux-Montagnes in black-outlined yellow letters on at least two lines (unsure of details). The proportions of the hoist vs. fly were about 1:3 or 2:3

Municipal flag information

• Ville de Boisbriand (Thérèse-De Blainville)
• Municipalité Des Ruisseaux 
• Municipalité de Labelle (Laurentides)
• Ville de Mont-Laurier (Antoine-Labelle)
• Oka (Deux-Montagnes)
• Sainte-Thérèse (Thérèse-De Blainville)
• Ville de Saint-Eustache (Deux-Montagnes)
• Ville de Saint-Jérôme (Rivière-du-Nord)
• Saint-Placide (Deux-Montagnes)

Incomplete Information

• Ville de Bellefeuille (1966-2002, Rivière-du-Nord):
  This city has been a part of Saint-Jérôme since 2002. I saw a white flag (possibly with the logo) on the website in December 2000.
• Ville de Deux-Montagnes (Deux-Montagnes):
  There is a white flag with the logo (March 2001).
• Municipalité du canton de Gore (Argenteuil):
  I saw a white flag (possibly with the logo) on the website (December 2000).
• Municipalité du canton de Grenville (Argenteuil):
  This municipality was merged to its neighbor in 2002 to form the new municipality of Grenville-sur-la-Rouge. I saw a white flag with coat of arms in December 2000.
• Village de L'Annonciation (Antoine-Labelle):
  This village is now part of Rivière-Rouge. In the Summer of 1999, I saw a white 1:2 flag with a coat of arms and lettering.
• Ville de Mirabel:
  On May 13 2005 on Radio-Canada Television, I saw a white flag with the name of the city in blue letters behind the mayor. The logo was probably also on the flag, though it was not visible because the flag was wrapped around a pole.
• Municipalité de Morin-Heights (Pays-d'en-Haut):
  In the Summer of 2003, I saw a white flag with the shield.
• Municipalité de Pointe-Calumet (Deux-Montagnes):
  On the city website, there were two flags flying in front of city hall: one white with perhaps the coat of arms; the other flying below on the same staff is vertically white and blue with a symbol on each half (December 2000).
• Ville de Rosemère (Thérèse-De Blainville):
  According to Marc Pasquin, this municipality has a flag with a white or very light blue background.