Montebello, Quebec
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 Location within Papineau RCM. |
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| Coordinates: 45°39′N 74°56′W / 45.650°N 74.933°WCoordinates: 45°39′N 74°56′W / 45.650°N 74.933°W | ||
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 Canada
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 Quebec
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| Region | Outaouais | |
| RCM | Papineau | |
| Constituted | August 29, 1878 | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Luc Ménard | |
| • Federal riding | Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel | |
| • Prov. riding | Papineau | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 10.50 km2 (4.05 sq mi) | |
| • Land | 8.36 km2 (3.23 sq mi) | |
| Population (2011) | ||
| • Total | 978 | |
| • Density | 117.0/km2 (303/sq mi) | |
| • Pop 2006-2011 |
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| • Dwellings | 527 | |
| Time zone | EST (UTC−5) | |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) | |
| Postal code(s) | J0V 1L0 | |
| Area code(s) | 819 | |
| Highways |
 Route 148 Route 323
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| Website | www montebello |
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Montebello is a municipality located in the Papineau Regional County Municipality of Western Quebec (Canada). At the 2001 census, there were 1,039 permanent residents. The village has a total area of 7.95 square kilometres (3.07 sq mi), and is located at the eastern edge of Canada's National Capital Region. It is located on the border with Ontario.
The village is world-famous for the Château Montebello resort, the largest log structure ever built. The resort was the host for the 1983 NATO Nuclear Planning Group, and the 1981 G7 Economic Summit.
Parc Omega, a large drive-through wildlife park, is just to the north in Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours.
Since 2005, it also hosts the Amnesia Rockfest, which has become Canada's largest rock festival. Past performers include Alice Cooper, The Offspring, Korn, Marilyn Manson, Rise Against and Dream Theater.
Non-native settlement of the area began when the land of the Petite Nation Seigneury was purchased by Joseph Papineau in 1801. Later in 1817, Louis-Joseph Papineau inherited the property and starting in 1846, built the Manor of Montebello, which is now a National Historic Site of Canada maintained by Parks Canada. The Family Museum, (c. 1880) which is on the Canadian Register of Historic Places, is next to the Manoir Papineau on the grounds of the Manoir Papineau National Historic Site of Canada.
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