Rivière-Rouge, Quebec
| Rivière-Rouge | |
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| City | |
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 Location within Antoine-Labelle RCM |
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 Rivière-Rouge
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| Coordinates: 46°25′N 74°52′W / 46.417°N 74.867°WCoordinates: 46°25′N 74°52′W / 46.417°N 74.867°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 Quebec
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| Region | Laurentides |
| RCM | Antoine-Labelle |
| Constituted | December 18, 2002 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Déborah Bélanger |
| • Federal riding | Laurentides—Labelle |
| • Prov. riding | Labelle |
| Area | |
| • Total | 498.40 km2 (192.43 sq mi) |
| • Land | 455.35 km2 (175.81 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 4,645 |
| • Density | 10.2/km2 (26/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2006-2011 |
 11.9% |
| • Dwellings | 2,960 |
| Time zone | EST (UTC−5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) |
| Postal code(s) | J0T 1T0 |
| Area code(s) | 819 |
| Highways |
  Route 117 (TCH) Route 321
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| Website | www |
Rivière-Rouge (English translation: Red River) is a city located in Antoine-Labelle Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 4,645. The demonym for its inhabitants is Riverougeois.
As part of the 2000–2006 municipal reorganization in Quebec, the city was created on December 18, 2002 by the amalgamation of the villages of L'Annonciation, La Macaza, Sainte-Véronique, and Canton Marchand. After a referendum in 2004, La Macaza regained its independent status on January 1, 2006 but remains part of the Urban agglomeration of Rivière-Rouge. The urban agglomeration is responsible for managing aspects that are common to all municipalities that were once merged, examples are 911 service, public safety, recycling and many other city functions that were merged into the city. The original villages are now the sectors of L'Annonciation, Marchand, and Sainte-Veronique. Although the city is named Rivière-Rouge, most people still call each town by its historical name.
The city is named for Rouge River that runs through the area. It is a tributary of the Ottawa River (French: Rivière des Outaouais). The region was always known as La Vallee de la Rouge (English: The Valley of the Red), and the city name was probably chosen for this reason. The now defunct local Air cadet squadron number 883 was also called Rivière-Rouge.
The village of l'Annonciation was created in 1908 from the "Downtown" area of the municipality of Marchand, so in one sense it has been re-absorbed into the whole. The two municipalities had done many things in cooperation prior to the merger.
There are two public schools in Rivière-Rouge. La Meandre (known as Ecole Ste-Croix before the province of Quebec restructured their school systems) is located in the L'Annonciation sector. The school goes from kindergarten to secondary 3 (9th grade). It serves as the grade school for the L'Annonciation and Marchand sectors as well as the regional junior high school (secondary 1 through 3, or grades 7 through 9) for Rivière-Rouge, La Macaza, L’Ascension, Nominingue, Ste-Veronique, Lac Saguay and unincorporated areas in between. Students must complete their last two years of high school at Ecole Polyvalente St-Joseph in the nearby city of Mont-Laurier. École du Christ-Roi is a k-6 grade school located in the Ste-Veronique sector. All the public schools in Rivière-Rouge are part of the Pierre-Neveu School district. The main office is located in Mont-Laurier. As an unexplained oddity the school in L'Annonciation was the only school in the district renamed to have a non secular name.
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