Urban agglomerations in Quebec

An agglomeration, or urban agglomeration, is an administrative subdivision of Quebec at the local level that may group together a number of municipalities which were abolished as independent entities on 1 January 2002 but reconstituted on 1 January 2006.

Urban agglomerations have certain powers that would ordinarily be exercised by individual municipalities.

The Act respecting the exercise of certain municipal powers in certain urban agglomerations defines the expression urban agglomeration as follows.

One municipality in each agglomeration is known as the central municipality and has special status under the Act. The others are called related municipalities.

The Act defines the powers exercised by the agglomeration and those exercised by the reconstituted municipalities, known as agglomeration powers (compétences d'agglomération) and local powers (compétences de proximité).

Agglomeration powers are exercised by agglomeration councils (conseils d'agglomération).

A list of these can be found on the website [1] of the Ministère des Affaires municipales et régionales.

A list of these can be found on the website [2] of the Ministère des Affaires municipales et régionales.

In each list, the legally designated central municipality appears first.

The Montreal urban agglomeration is administered by the Montreal Agglomeration Council, a replacement of the old Montreal Urban Community

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