Kiamika | |
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Motto: Quel coup de cœur! | |
![]() Location within Antoine-Labelle RCM | |
Coordinates: 46°25′N 75°23′W / 46.417°N 75.383°W[1] | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Laurentides |
RCM | Antoine-Labelle |
Settled | 1860s |
Constituted | January 3, 1898 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Michel Dion |
• Federal riding | Laurentides—Labelle |
• Prov. riding | Labelle |
Area | |
• Total | 362.94 km2 (140.13 sq mi) |
• Land | 337.53 km2 (130.32 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[3] | |
• Total | 790 |
• Density | 2.3/km2 (6/sq mi) |
• Pop. (2016-21) | ![]() |
• Dwellings | 508 |
Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
Postal code(s) | |
Area code | 819 |
Highways | ![]() |
Website | www |
Kiamika is a municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Antoine-Labelle Regional County Municipality.
Joseph Montferrand (1802-1864), a logger of imposing stature and extraordinary physical strength, was from Kiamika.[1]
The municipality is named after the Kiamika River, which flows through its territory and is a tributary of the Lièvre River. This name, mentioned by Stanislas Drapeau as Kiamica and appearing on a map of Quebec by Eugène Taché from 1870, comes from the Algonquin word kickiamika meaning "steep cut below the water", from kicki (steep cut) and amick (below the water).[1]
However, an alternate meaning may be "deep and quiet river", from the roots kiam (deep) and ka (quiet).[1][4]
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