Grand-Remous is a town and municipality in La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality, Quebec

La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality, Quebec

La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau is a Regional County Municipality in the Outaouais region of western Quebec, Canada. The seat is in Gracefield. It is named for its location straddling the Gatineau River north of Low. It was incorporated on January 1, 1983.It consists of two cities, fifteen...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. The municipality is south of the Baskatong Reservoir

Baskatong Reservoir

The Baskatong Reservoir is a man-made lake in western Quebec, Canada. It was formed following the construction of the Mercier Dam in 1927 and has an area of 413 km2. It has no generating station at its dam, but the reservoir is used to control the flow of the Gatineau River for several...

, spanning both sides of the Gatineau River

Gatineau River

The Gatineau River is a river in western Quebec, Canada, which rises in lakes north of the Baskatong Reservoir and flows south to join the Ottawa River at the city of Gatineau, Quebec...

. The town is situated at the intersection of Route 117

Quebec route 117

Route 117 is a provincial highway within the Canadian province of Quebec, running between Montreal and the Quebec/Ontario border where it continues as Highway 66 east of Kearns, Ontario...

 and Route 105

Quebec route 105

Route 105 is a north-south highway in Quebec, Canada. It runs from Hull , where it is known as Boulevard Saint-Joseph , to Grand-Remous where it ends at Route 117....

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"Grand-Remous" is French for "great eddy

Eddy (fluid dynamics)

In fluid dynamics, an eddy is the swirling of a fluid and the reverse current created when the fluid flows past an obstacle. The moving fluid creates a space devoid of downstream-flowing fluid on the downstream side of the object...

" and is a reference to a large whirlpool on the Gatineau River near the Grand Remous Chute. This name matches the Atikamekw

Atikamekw

The Atikamekw are the indigenous inhabitants of the area they refer to as Nitaskinan , in the upper Saint-Maurice River valley of Quebec , Canada. Their population currently stands at around 4500. One of the main communities is Manawan, about northeast of Montreal. They have a tradition of...

 name "Obémiticwang", also meaning "choppy waters" or "big stir."

Its territory consists of low hills which vary between 200 metres (656.2 ft) and 380 metres (1,246.7 ft) above sea level, and which are partly cleared, mostly around Grand-Remous and along highway 105.

History

The township municipality, formed in 1937, was first called Sicotte, named in honour of Louis-Victor Sicotte

Louis-Victor Sicotte

Louis-Victor Sicotte was a lawyer, judge and politician in Lower Canada.He was born Louis Cicot in Boucherville, Lower Canada in 1812. He studied law and was called to the bar in 1839...

(1812-1889), County Deputy of Saint-Hyacinthe from 1857 to 1863. The local post office was also named Sicotte in 1927, but renamed to Grand-Remous in 1933. In 1973, the municipality changed its name to conform to the name of the village where the majority of the population lived.

On October 11, 2003, the Township Municipality of Grand-Remous became the Municipality of Grand-Remous.

Demographics

Population:

• Population in 2006: 1249
• Population in 2001: 1261
  • 2001 to 2006 population change: -1 %
• Population in 1996: 1257
• Population in 1991: 1184

Total private dwellings (excluding seasonal cottages): 529

Languages:

• English as first language: 5.6 %
• French as first language: 90.7 %
• English and French as first language: 1.6 %
• Other as first language: 2.0 %