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Saint-Omer, Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec

administrative sector in Carleton-sur-Mer, Quebec, Canada, former municipality

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ7400760 ↗
Source-derived summary

Saint-Omer was a former parish municipality in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of Quebec, Canada, until October 3, 2000.

On October 4, 2000, it merged with the town of Carleton to create the new city of Carleton–Saint-Omer, which was renamed to Carleton-sur-Mer on May 7, 2005.

It is the site of the Saint-Omer Bird Sanctuary.

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The public source identifies “Saint-Omer, Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec” as administrative sector in Carleton-sur-Mer, Quebec, Canada, former municipality. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Saint-Omer, Gaspésie and Îles-de-la-Madeleine.

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This entry incorporates text from “Saint-Omer, Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec” 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.