Kamouraska Regional County Municipality

Kamouraska
Kamouraska
Regional county municipality
	Inselbergs in Saint-André-de-Kamouraska.
	Coordinates: 47°32′N 69°49′W / 47.533°N 69.817°W
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Bas-Saint-Laurent
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Saint-Pascal
Government
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Sylvain Roy
Area
• Total	2,603.70 km2 (1,005.29 sq mi)
• Land	2,244.73 km2 (866.70 sq mi)
Population (2016)
• Total	21,073
• Density	9.4/km2 (24/sq mi)
• Change; 2011-2016	1.9%
• Dwellings	10,645
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Website	mrckamouraska.com

Kamouraska is a regional county municipality in eastern Quebec, Canada. The regional county municipality seat is Saint-Pascal, but the largest town is La Pocatière.

The area is an important research, development and education centre for agriculture. Factories in the region produce metal products and public transportation equipment. One of the people instrumental in settling and developing this area was Pascal Taché, an early seigneur.

The name "Kamouraska" comes from an Algonquin word meaning "where rushes grow at the water's edge". ^{[citation needed]} ^[5]

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^ ^a ^b "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Kamouraska, Municipalité régionale de comté [Census division], Quebec". Statistics Canada. 8 February 2017. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
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^ 'Kamouraska' comes from the Abenaki, ska moraskua, which means "birch bark here", "there is some white birch bark". This sort of birch bark is used for making canoes and wigwams.

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[#fn1-5] 'Kamouraska' comes from the Abenaki, ska moraskua, which means "birch bark here", "there is some white birch bark". This sort of birch bark is used for making canoes and wigwams.

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