Franquelin
Municipality
Franquelin Location in Côte-Nord region of Quebec.
Coordinates: 49°22′N 67°50′W / 49.367°N 67.833°W / 49.367; -67.833[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Côte-Nord
RCM	Manicouagan
Settled	1910s
Constituted	January 1, 1978
Government [2]
• Mayor	Michel Levesque
• Federal riding	Manicouagan
• Prov. riding	René-Lévesque
Area [2][3]
• Total	516.50 km2 (199.42 sq mi)
• Land	436.55 km2 (168.55 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[3]
• Total	285
• Density	0.7/km2 (2/sq mi)
• Pop 2016-2021	8.9%
• Dwellings	194
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0H 1E0
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Highways	R-138

Franquelin is a municipality in Quebec, Canada, in the administrative region of Côte-Nord in RCM Manicouagan. Its population is 285 people over 430 square kilometres. Franquelin was founded at the foot of Massifs rocks of the Laurentians where impressive cliffs plunge to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

The name of the municipality was given in honour of Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin, the first official cartographer of New France. He drew the map of the Saint Lawrence River in 1685.

Franquelin came into existence in 1911 thanks to the forest industry. The lumber would be transported to the rivers by horses. From there, it was shipped to paper mills in Thorold, Ontario, and then to Baie-Comeau starting in 1937. The Ontario Paper Company, owned by Colonel Robert R. McCormick, which later became the Quebec North Shore Paper Co., needed paper to supply the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, which were also owned by McCormick.

Demographics

Population trend:^[4]

Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 157 (total dwellings: 194)

Mother tongue:

• English as first language: 0%
• French as first language: 100%
• English and French as first language: 0%
• Other as first language: 0%

See also

• Franquelin River
• Rivière Franquelin Branche Ouest, un cours d'eau, un cours d'eau
• Bouchard River
• Ma Tante River
• Thompson River

References