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Beaulac-Garthby

municipality in Chaudière-Appalaches, Quebec, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ2893193 ↗
Source-derived summary

Beaulac-Garthby is a municipality in Municipalité régionale de comté des Appalaches in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 931 as of 2021.

History

The municipality, located on Lake Aylmer, was created in 2000 following the amalgamation of the village of Beaulac and the township of Garthby.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Beaulac-Garthby” is municipality in Chaudière-Appalaches, Quebec, Canada. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Beaulac-Garthby, municipality and Chaudière-Appalaches, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000-03-15. For this dossier, Beaulac-Garthby, municipality and Chaudière-Appalaches is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2893193. VIAF identifies the subject as 159403789. The Library of Congress control number is n2006021053. Authority coordinates are 45.833, -71.383. 2 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Beaulac-Garthby” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.