Rivière-du-Loup
Rivière-du-Loup
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| Coordinates: 47°50′N 69°32′W / 47.833°N 69.533°W | |||
| Country |  Canada |
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| Province |  Quebec |
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| Region | Bas-Saint-Laurent | ||
| Settled | 1850 as Fraserville | ||
| Incorporated | 1919 as Rivière-du-Loup | ||
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| - Type | Ville | ||
| - Mayor | Michel Morin | ||
| Area | |||
| - Land | 84.23 km2 (32.5 sq mi) | ||
| - Metro | 409.56 km2 (158.1 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2010) | |||
| - City | 19,192 | ||
| - Density | 228/km2 (590.5/sq mi) | ||
| - Metro | 24,570 | ||
| - Metro density | 60.0/km2 (155.4/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | Eastern (UTC-5) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) | ||
| Area code(s) | 418 | ||
| Website | Official city site | ||
- For the electoral district, see Rivière-du-Loup (electoral district)
Rivière-du-Loup (2010 population 19,192) is a small city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The city is the seat for the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and the judicial district of Kamouraska.
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History
The city was named after the nearby river, whose name means Wolf's River in French. This name may have come from a native tribe known as "Les Loups" or from the many seals, known in French as loup-marin (sea wolves), once found at the river's mouth.
Rivière-du-Loup was originally established in 1673 as the seigneurie of Sieur Charles-Aubert de la Chesnaye. The community was incorporated as the village of Fraserville, in honour of early settler Alexandre Fraser, in 1850, and became a city in 1910. The city reverted to its original name, Rivière-du-Loup, in 1919.
The city is known for its spectacular sunsets.
Transportation
Rivière-du-Loup is a traditional stopping point between Quebec City, the Maritimes and the Gaspé Peninsula. The Trans-Canada Highway turns south here, transferring from Autoroute 20 to Autoroute 85 and continuing southerly to Edmundston, New Brunswick.
There is a ferry which crosses the river (fleuve St Laurent) to Saint-Siméon on the north shore.
The city is also served by the Rivière-du-Loup Airport (IATA airport code YRI). The town can also be reached by VIA Rail.
Media
Television
Rivière-du-Loup is an unusual television market, as each of its stations has two transmitters in the city. As a result of the region's hilly geography, it is virtually impossible for a television station to serve the entire area with a single transmitter, as parts of the broadcast area experience signal dropout. Accordingly, each station in the city has both a primary transmitter and a low-power rebroadcaster to serve viewers who cannot receive the primary signal.
Additionally, the city is served by Canada's only triple-stick operation, in which all three of its licensed stations are owned by the same company, Télé Inter-Rives.
- Channel 7 (13) - CKRT (Radio-Canada)
- Channel 9 (6) - CIMT (TVA)
- Channel 29 (11) - CFTF (V)
Rivière-du-Loup is a mandatory market for digital television conversion; Télé Inter-Rives have plans to convert all its transmitters to digital.
Unlike most cities in Quebec, Rivière-du-Loup has no local Télé-Québec outlet, nor a repeater of CBMT, Montreal's CBC Television station, though these channels are available on the Vidéotron system in Rivière-du-Loup.
Radio
- FM 89.5 - CJBR-FM-1, Première Chaîne
- FM 90.7 - CBRX-FM-3, Espace musique
- FM 103.1 - CFYX-FM-1, talk/classic rock (rebroadcasts CFYX Rimouski)
- FM 103.7 - CIEL-FM, AC
- FM 107.1 - CIBM-FM, CHR
- FM 107.9 - CIBM-FM-1 (local CIBM rebroadcaster)
People
Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister, had a summer home in Rivière-du-Loup.
People born there include:
- Nicolas Dickner, writer
- Dr. John McLoughlin, known as "the father of Oregon"
- Allan Sirois, professional hockey player
- Alexandre-Antonin Taché, first Archbishop of Saint Boniface
- ^ Statistics Canada (but Ministère des Affaires Municipales et Régions shows an area of 83.39 km2)
- ^ Territorial Division Act. Revised Statutes of Quebec D-11.
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Coordinates: 47°50′N 69°32′W / 47.833°N 69.533°W