Trois-Rivières
Trois-Rivières | |
|---|---|
| Ville de Trois-Rivières | |
From top, left to right: Downtown Trois-Rivières from the St. Lawrence River, monument to Sacré-Coeur, Trois-Rivières Cathedral, Laviolette Bridge, Pacifique Du Plessis gate, Ursulines monastery | |
| Motto(s): Deus nobiscum quis contra ("If God is with us, who can be against us") | |
Trois-Rivières metropolitan area | |
| Coordinates: 46°20′35″N 72°32′36″W / 46.34306°N 72.54333°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Mauricie |
| RCM | None |
| Founded | July 4, 1634 by Laviolette |
| Incorporated | June 10, 1857 |
| Constituted | January 1, 2002 |
| Boroughs | Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Trois-Rivières-Ouest, Saint-Louis-de-France, Pointe-du-Lac, Sainte-Marthe-du-Cap |
| Government | |
| • Type | Trois-Rivières City Council |
| • Mayor | Jean Lamarche |
| • Federal riding | Berthier—Maskinongé and Trois-Rivières |
| • Prov. riding | Champlain and Maskinongé and Trois-Rivières |
| Area (2021) | |
| • Land | 288.65 km2 (111.45 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 98.58 km2 (38.06 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 1,038.64 km2 (401.02 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 61 m (200 ft) |
| Population (2024) | |
| 144,472 | |
| • Density | 500.5/km2 (1,296/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 128,057 |
| • Urban density | 1,299.0/km2 (3,364/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 167,416 |
| • Metro density | 161.2/km2 (418/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2021-2024 | 3.7% |
| • Dwellings | 70,411 |
| Demonym | Trifluvians |
| Time zone | UTC−05:00 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−04:00 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area code | 819 |
| GDP (Trois-Rivières CMA) | CA$6.3 billion (2016) |
| GDP per capita (Trois-Rivières CMA) | CA$40,290 (2016) |
| Website | www |
Trois-Rivières (French: [tʁwɑ ʁivjɛʁ], Canadian French: [tʁwɔ ʁivjaɛ̯ʁ] ⓘ; lit. 'Three Rivers') is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River across from the city of Bécancour. It is part of the densely populated Quebec City–Windsor Corridor and is approximately halfway between Montreal and Quebec City. Trois-Rivières is the economic and cultural hub of the Mauricie region. The settlement was founded by French colonists on July 4, 1634, as the second permanent settlement in New France, after Quebec City in 1608.
The name of Trois-Rivières, which dates from the end of the 16th century, was used by French explorers in reference to the three channels in the Saint-Maurice River formed at its mouth with the Saint Lawrence, as it is divided by two islands, Potherie (Île Caron) and Île Saint-Quentin. The city occupies a location near where Jacques Cartier, in a 1535 trip along the St. Lawrence, stopped to plant a cross on Saint-Quentin island.
Trois-Rivières is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) of Quebec, coextensive with the city of Trois-Rivières. Its geographical code is 371. Together with the regional county municipality of Les Chenaux, it forms the census division (CD) of Francheville (37). The municipalities within Les Chenaux and the former municipalities that were amalgamated into Trois-Rivières formerly constituted the regional county municipality of Francheville. Trois-Rivières is the seat of the judicial district of the same name.