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Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality

regional county municipality in Montérégie, Quebec, Canada

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ1517861 ↗
Source-derived summary

Les Maskoutains (French pronunciation: [le maskutɛ̃]) is a regional county municipality in the Montérégie region in southwestern Quebec, Canada. Its seat is in Saint-Hyacinthe.

The name comes from Algonquin word maskutew meaning "bear plain" in plular.

Editorial summary

“Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality” enters the record as regional county municipality in Montérégie, Quebec, Canada. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Maskoutains, Regional and County can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 36-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1982-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Maskoutains, Regional and County.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Maskoutains, Regional and County provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1517861. Authority coordinates are 45.617, -72.950. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality primary sources, Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality archive and Maskoutains research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality” 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.