• Source: Arthabaska County, Quebec

Arthabaska County is an historical county founded in 1855 in central Quebec, Canada. Its county seat was Arthabaska and the main city was Victoriaville. It was bounded on the northeast by Mégantic County on the southeast Wolfe County, on the southwest by Drummond County and Richmond County and on the northwest by Nicolet County.
It was formed from the townships of Warwick, Standold, Arthabaska, Chester-Est, Chester-Ouest and Tingwick, as well as part of the townships of Maddington, Blandford, Horton, Bulstrode, Simpson, and Aston.
In the early 1980s Quebec's counties were abolished and most of Arthabaska County became the Arthabaska Regional County Municipality. The northeastern part of the county was transferred to L'Érable Regional County Municipality.
The name of the county comes from the name of the township of Arthabaska, itself originating from the Cree language, in which it means "where there are reeds".




Municipalities within the county



Arthabaska (fusioned with Victoriaville in 1994)
Chénier (fusioned with Tingwick in 1981)
Chester-Est (renamed Sainte-Hélène-de-Chester in 2008)
Chester-Nord (fusioned with Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska in 1994)
Chester-Ouest (fusioned with Chesterville in 1982)
Chesterville
Daveluyville
Maddington Falls
Princeville
Parish of Princeville, named Saint-Eusèbe-de-Stanfold until 1969, fusioned with Princeville in 2000
Saint-Albert
Saint-Christophe-d'Arthabaska
Sainte-Anne-du-Sault (merged with Daveluyville in 2016)
Sainte-Clotilde-de-Horton
Sainte-Élizabeth-de-Warwick
Sainte-Séraphine
Sainte-Victoire-d'Arthabaska (fusioned with Victoriaville in 1994)
Saint-Louis-de-Blandford
Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska
Saint-Rémi-de-Tingwick
Saint-Samuel
Saint-Valérien
Tingwick
Victoriaville
Warwick




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Arthabaska County, Quebec
• Arthabaska Regional County Municipality
• Arthabaska
• Warwick, Quebec
• Richmond—Arthabaska
• Victoriaville
• Municipal history of Quebec
• Hull County, Quebec
• List of former counties of Quebec
• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec