Lac-Pikauba

Lac-Pikauba
Unorganized territory
Grands-Jardins National Park
Grands-Jardins National Park
Location within Charlevoix RCM.
Location within Charlevoix RCM.
Lac-Pikauba is located in Central Quebec
Lac-Pikauba
Lac-Pikauba
Location in central Quebec.
Coordinates: 47°48′N 71°07′W / 47.800°N 71.117°W / 47.800; -71.117[1]
Country Canada
Province Quebec
RegionCapitale-Nationale
RCMCharlevoix
ConstitutedJanuary 1, 1986
Government
[2]
 • Federal ridingMontmorency—Charlevoix
—Haute-Côte-Nord
 • Prov. ridingCharlevoix–Côte-de-Beaupré
Area
[2][3]
 • Total
2,512.50 km2 (970.08 sq mi)
 • Land2,461.22 km2 (950.28 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[3]
 • Total
0
 • Density0.0/km2 (0/sq mi)
 • Pop 2006-2011
Steady N/A
 • Dwellings
208
Time zoneUTC−5 (EST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
Highways R-169
R-175
R-381

Lac-Pikauba is an unorganized territory in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. It is a large, unpopulated, undeveloped territory that makes up two-thirds of the Charlevoix Regional County Municipality.

The entire area west of Quebec Route 381, which bisects the territory, is part of the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve and the Grands-Jardins National Park. A portion of the Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie National Park is in the north-eastern part of the territory.

The territory's largest lake is the eponymous Lake Pikauba. This toponym comes from the Montagnais word Opikopau. Opi is a root to indicate that something is enclosed or confined. Kopau describes a lake with alders, reeds, or other. So Pikauba may be translated as "lake narrowed by Alders". The map of provincial surveyor Frederic William Blaiklock from 1852 referred to this lake by the name Chicoutimi Lake.[4]

Demographics

Population:[5]

  • Population in 2011: 0
  • Population in 2006: 0
  • Population in 2001: 0
  • Population in 1996: 0
  • Population in 1991: 5

References

  1. ^ "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 149564". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
  2. ^ a b Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire - Répertoire des municipalités: Lac-Pikauba
  3. ^ a b Statistics Canada 2011 Census - Lac-Pikauba census profile
  4. ^ "Lac Pikauba" (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
  5. ^ Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census

See also