Maskinong� RCM, Quebec (Canada) (original) (raw)

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[](../images/c/ca-qc-mk2.jpg) image located by Dave Fowler, 8 February 2022
based on photo

• The municipality
• The flag
• Previous flag See also:
• Quebec
• Mauricie Administrative Region

The Municipality

Maskinong� is one of the three regional county municipalities in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada. There are 36,000 inhabitants on 2,380 km�. There are currently 17 subdivisions within the RCM:

Municipalities

• Louiseville (town and seat of the RCM)
• Charette
• Maskinong�
• Saint-Boniface
• Saint-�douard-de-Maskinong�
• Saint-�lie-de-Caxton
• Saint-Justin
• Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc
• Saint-Paulin
• Sainte-Ang�le-de-Pr�mont
• Sainte-Ursule
• Yamachiche

Parishes

• Saint-Alexis-des-Monts
• Saint-Barnab�
• Saint-�tienne-des-Gr�s
• Saint-L�on-le-Grand
• Saint-S�v�re The RCM was formed on January 1, 1982.
  It consisted of Hunterstown Township (now part of Saint-Paulin); Belleau Municipality (now part of Saint-Alexis-des-Monts); the parish municipalities of Saint-Alexis-des-Monts, Sainte-Ang�le (since renamed to Sainte-Ang�le-de-Premont), Sainte-Anne-d'Yamachiche (now part of Yamachiche), Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivi�re-du-Loup (now part of Louiseville), Saint-Barnab�, Saint-�douard (since renamed Saint-�douard-de-Maskinong�), Saint-Joseph-de-Maskinong� (now part of Maskinong�), Saint-Justin, Saint-L�on-le-Grand, Saint-Paulin, Saint-S�v�re, and Sainte-Ursule; and the village municipalities of Louiseville, Maskinong�, Saint-Paulin, and Yamachiche.
  On January 1, 2002, the municipalities of Charette, Saint-Boniface-de-Shawinigan (since renamed to Saint-Boniface), Saint-�lie (since renamed to Saint-�lie-de-Caxton), Saint-�tienne-des-Gr�s, and Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc were transferred to the Maskinong� Regional County Municipality when the Centre-de-la-Mauricie and Francheville RMC were dissolved.
  Olivier Touzeau, 3 November 2019

Flag

The logo and flag for this county changed sometime post-2019. It consist of the name in a hand-drawn script in green, blue and orange.
Dave Fowler, 8 February 2022

Previous flag

[](../images/c/ca-qc-mk.gif) image by Olivier Touzeau, 3 November 2019

The flags of the RCM of Maskinong� and of its subdivisions are displayed on a roundabout in Yamachiche, on road 138 between Louiseville and Yamachiche: https://www.google.com/maps/@46.262547,-72.8778071,3a,58.5y,186.86h,96.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sojjy97pVDXU-FELgdozdYg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 and
https://www.google.com/maps/@46.2622183,-72.8776893,3a,75y,319.02h,83.94t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0j6qFnmA2s9ReUs3Vp9K-g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 (pictures taken in October 2018). There are 19 masts and flag of the province of Qu�bec is at the center of the roundabout.

On the pictures taken in 2018 on Google StreetView, the flag of Maskinong� municipality is at the foot of an empty mast:
https://www.google.com/maps/@46.2621733,-72.8777873,3a,33.4y,344.4h,92.94t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sD0cfLWJ8WKEIP1VyFjuJfQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
But you can see this flag in the pictures taken in 2014 on Google StreetView:
https://www.google.com/maps/@46.2622735,-72.8780341,3a,24.1y,75.59h,96.01t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sgyb3yHJ6qUvK0Ld4r51iiA!2e0!5s20140801T000000!7i13312!8i6656

The same flag can be seen in front of the seat of the RCM:
https://www.google.com/maps/@46.2575361,-72.9225964,3a,34.2y,313.79h,87.93t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sQzoXfGjaVk7lHC2iMkezWA!2e0!5s20180501T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=fr
http://www.mrc-maskinonge.qc.ca/contact

The flag is white with the logo centered.
Olivier Touzeau, 3 November 2019