Caniapiscau
Caniapiscau is a vast but sparsely-populated regional county municipality, with 4,260 people in a remote 70,390-km² area of northeastern Quebec. The main attractions of the MRC of Caniapiscau are:…| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Schefferville and Fermont.
Schefferville
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Schefferville is a community in Caniapiscau regional county municipality. It is not accessible by road. Schefferville was established by the Iron Ore Company of Canada in 1954 to support the mining of rich iron ore deposits in the area.
Fermont
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Fermont is a mining town located in the regional county municipality of Caniapiscau in the northern part of the Côte-Nord region of Quebec. This municipality includes Mont-Wright, an iron ore extraction sector, as well as Monts Severson.
Caniapiscau
- Type: Locality with 3,880 residents
- Description: regional county municipality
- Also known as: “Caniapiscau Regional County Municipality”
- Category: regional county municipality of Quebec
- Location: North Shore, Quebec, Canada, North America
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In Other Languages
From Atikamekw to Welsh—“Caniapiscau” goes by many names.
- Atikamekw: “Caniapiscau”
- Basque: “Caniapiscau”
- French: “Caniapiscau”
- German: “Caniapiscau”
- Irish: “Caniapiscau”
- Italian: “Caniapiscau”
- Persian: “شهرستان کانیاپیسکو”
- Polish: “Caniapiscau (regionalna gmina hrabstwa)”
- Polish: “Caniapiscau”
- Portuguese: “Caniapiscau”
- Spanish: “Caniapiscau”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Sir Rhanbarthol Caniapiscau”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Caniapiscau”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.