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Quebec MRCG High Points

Showing Nick Alexander's first ascent dates for climbed peaks

Rank	MRCG	Peak	Elev-M (Avg)	Range (Level 4)
1.	Kativik	Mont D'Iberville	1652	Torngat Mountains
2.	La Haute-Gaspésie	Mont Jacques-Cartier	1268	Notre Dame Mountains
3.	Le Granit	West Monument 443 Peak	1187	Longfellow Mountains
4.	La Côte-de-Beaupré	Mont Raoul-Blanchard	1175	Laurentian Mountains
5.	Matane	Mont Logan	1155	Notre Dame Mountains
6.	Le Fjord-du-Saguenay	Mont Yapeitso	1135	Northern Quebec
6.	Jamésie	Mont Yapeitso	1135	Northern Quebec
8.	Charlevoix	Mont de l'Enfer	1105	Laurentian Mountains
9.	Caniapiscau	Sommet UA 2	1104	Northern Quebec
10.	Manicouagan	Mont Veyrier	1104	Northern Quebec
11.	Le Haut-Saint-François	Mont Mégantic	1102	Longfellow Mountains
12.	Sept-Rivières	Mont Lucie	1089	Northern Quebec
13.	Charlevoix-Est	Mont Jérémie	1055	Laurentian Mountains
14.	Minganie	Minganie High Point	1028	Central and South Labrador
15.	Brome-Missisquoi	Sommet Rond	962	Green Mountains
16.	La Jacques-Cartier	Mont du lac Bonneville	935	Laurentian Mountains
17.	Les Laurentides	Mont Tremblant	932	Laurentian Mountains
18.	Bellechasse	Montagne du Midi	916	Notre Dame Mountains
	Bellechasse	or Mont Saint-Magloire	915	Notre Dame Mountains
19.	Les Etchemins	Montagne du Midi-Sommet Sud	912	Notre Dame Mountains
20.	La Matapédia	Mont Saint-Pierre	906	Notre Dame Mountains
21.	La Côte-de-Gaspé	La Côte-de-Gaspé High Point	891	Notre Dame Mountains
22.	Lac-Saint-Jean-Est	Mont Apica	891	Laurentian Mountains
23.	Matawinie	Montagne Noire	891	Laurentian Mountains
24.	Maria-Chapdelaine	Maria-Chapdelaine High Point	885	Northern Quebec
25.	Portneuf	Mont du lac Chézine	870	Laurentian Mountains
26.	Coaticook	Hereford Mountain	869	New England Upland
27.	Memphrémagog	Mont Orford	855	Green Mountains
28.	Montmagny	Montagne Grande Coulée--East Slope	854	Notre Dame Mountains
29.	La Mitis	Mont Saint-Pierre-Northwest Slope	795	Notre Dame Mountains
30.	Antoine-Labelle	Mont Sir-Wilfrid	784	Laurentian Mountains
31.	Beauce-Sartigan	Liniere Benchmark	773	Longfellow Mountains
32.	La Haute-Côte-Nord	La Haute-Côte-Nord High Point	769	Northern Quebec
33.	Le Rocher-Percé	Mont Alexandre	750	Notre Dame Mountains
34.	Les Appalaches	Mont Adstock	712	Notre Dame Mountains
35.	Kamouraska	Kamouraska High Point	710	Notre Dame Mountains
36.	Les Sources	Mont Ham	708	Notre Dame Mountains
37.	Lotbiniére	Mont Sainte Margaurite	686	Notre Dame Mountains
38.	Robert-Cliche	Mont du Lac du Cinq	675	Notre Dame Mountains
39.	La Vallée-de-l'Or	La Vallée-de-l'Or High Point	662	Laurentian Mountains
40.	La Tuque	Le Tuque High Point	662	Laurentian Mountains
41.	Témiscouata	Montagne Bleue-Northeast Slopes	662	Notre Dame Mountains
42.	Le Val-Saint-François	Mont Chapman	658	Notre Dame Mountains
43.	L'Islet	Mont Fournier	656	Notre Dame Mountains
44.	La Nouvelle-Beauce	Mont Frampton	655	Notre Dame Mountains
45.	Bonaventure	Bonaventure High Point	650	Notre Dame Mountains
46.	Avignon	Avignon High Point	647	Notre Dame Mountains
47.	Rimouski-Neigette	Mont Long-Vue	632	Notre Dame Mountains
48.	Arthabaska	Montagne à Simoneau	627	Notre Dame Mountains
49.	La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau	Lac Bleak Peaks	615	Laurentian Mountains
50.	Mékinac	Mékinac High Point	601	Laurentian Mountains
51.	L'Érable	Mont Vianney	591	Notre Dame Mountains
52.	Les Pays-d'en-Haut	Les Pays-d'En-Haut High Point	590	Laurentian Mountains
	Pyrénées-Orientales	or Les Pays-d'En-Haut High Point # 2	590	Laurentian Mountains
53.	Le Domaine-du-Roy	Le Domaine-du-Roy High Point	586	Northern Quebec
54.	Québec	Montagne des Trois Sommets	572	Laurentian Mountains
55.	Rouyn-Noranda	Mont Dominant	565	Northern Ontario
56.	Eeyou Istchee	Eeyou Istchee High Point	556	Northern Quebec
57.	La Haute-Yamaska	Mont Brome	554	Notre Dame Mountains
58.	Maskinongé	Maskinongé High Point	550	Laurentian Mountains
59.	D'Autray	D'Autray High Point	547	Laurentian Mountains
60.	Témiscamingue	Témiscamingue High Point	495	Laurentian Mountains
	Témiscamingue	or Témiscamingue High Point #2	495	Laurentian Mountains
61.	Abitibi	Abitibi High Point	479	Northern Quebec
62.	Rivière-du-Loup	Mont Citadelle-North Ridge	479	Notre Dame Mountains
63.	Shawinigan	Shawinigan High Point	470	Laurentian Mountains
64.	Argenteuil	Argenteuil High Point	464	Laurentian Mountains
65.	Abitibi-Ouest	Collines Nissing-South Peak	464	Northern Ontario
	Abitibi-Ouest	or Colline Oditan	464	Northern Ontario
66.	Papineau	Mont Grand Pic	440	Laurentian Mountains
67.	Les Basques	Les Basques High Point	434	Notre Dame Mountains
68.	Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais	Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais High Point	430	Laurentian Mountains
69.	La Rivière-du-Nord	La Rivière-du-Nord High Point	429	Laurentian Mountains
70.	Pontiac	Montagne du Lac Sand	418	Laurentian Mountains
71.	Rouville	Mont Yamaska	418	Notre Dame Mountains
72.	Montcalm	Montcalm High Point	414	Laurentian Mountains
73.	La Vallée-du-Richelieu	Mont Saint-Hilaire	408	Notre Dame Mountains
74.	Sherbrooke	Sherbrooke High Point	401	New England Upland
75.	Basse-Côte-Nord	Collines de Brador	388	Central and South Labrador
76.	Les Maskoutains	Mont Rougemont-Point 370	375	Notre Dame Mountains
77.	Le Haut-Saint-Laurent	Covey Hill	345	Adirondack Mountains
78.	Joliette	Joliette High Point	330	Laurentian Mountains
79.	Saguenay	Saguenay High Point	315	Laurentian Mountains
80.	Acton	Acton High Point	275	Notre Dame Mountains
81.	Le Haut-Richelieu	Mont Saint-Grégoire	252	Notre Dame Mountains
82.	Deux-Montagnes	Mont Bleu	249	Laurentian Mountains
83.	Montréal	Mont Royal	234	Laurentian Mountains
84.	Vaudreuil-Soulanges	Mont Rigaud	228	Southern Ontario
85.	Les Chenaux	Cap de Roche	226	Laurentian Mountains
86.	Drummond	Mont Saint-Felix	215	Notre Dame Mountains
87.	Longueuil	Mont Saint-Bruno	213	Notre Dame Mountains
88.	Lajemmerais	Mont Saint-Bruno - Sommet Central	195	Notre Dame Mountains
89.	Gatineau	Gatineau High Point	190	Laurentian Mountains
90.	Mirabel	Mont Bleu-Northwest Slope	168	Laurentian Mountains
91.	Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine	Cap aux Meules High Point	166	Gulf of Saint Lawrence Appalachians
92.	L'Île-d'Orléans	L'Île-d'Orléans High Point	151	Laurentian Mountains
93.	Bécancour	Bécancour High Point	125	Notre Dame Mountains
94.	Lévis	Lévis High Point	124	Notre Dame Mountains
95.	Les Jardins-de-Napierville	Les Jardins-de-Napierville High Point	123	Adirondack Mountains
96.	Nicolet-Yamaska	Nicolet-Yamaska High Point	107	Notre Dame Mountains
97.	Les Moulins	Les Moulins High Point	78	Laurentian Mountains
98.	Thérèse-de Blainville	Thérèse-de-Blainville High Point	76	Laurentian Mountains
99.	Trois-Rivières	Trois-Rivières High Point	76	Laurentian Mountains
100.	Beauharnois-Salaberry	Beauharnois-Salaberry High Point	71	Adirondack Mountains
101.	Roussillon	Rousillon High Point	58	Adirondack Mountains
102.	Laval	Île Jésus High Point	57	Laurentian Mountains
103.	L'Assomption	L'Assomption High Point	48	Laurentian Mountains
104.	Pierre-de-Saurel	Pierre-de-Saurel High Point	45	Notre Dame Mountains

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List Description

Quebec is currently divided into 104 “municipalités régionales de comté géographiques” or “geographic regional county municipalities”, and they are they are the closest equivalent to U.S. Counties in the province. They cover the entire area of Quebec and do not overlap, and are of roughly the same size and population as U.S. counties.

These 104 “counties” are of two types: 86 MRCs (regional county municipalities) and 18 TEs (equivalent territories). The TEs include large city areas like Montreal and Quebec City, plus large northern territories like Kativik. See the Wikipedia link below for more explanation of this topic.

Statistics Canada, the agency that runs the Canadian Census, generally uses the MRCGs as Census Divisions (CDs) in their tabulations, so they are statistically equivalent to the counties in the Maritime Provinces and Ontario, and the Regional Districts in British Columbia. However, the Statistics Canada numbering scheme for CDs only allows for codes from 00 to 99 within a single province, so they are forced to combine several groups of the MRCGs into bogus CDs. Therefore, this list is not a Quebec CD high point list—it shows all 104 MRCGs, the real administrative authorities.

Enough bureaucratic talk—this is quite a large and varied list of peaks. It includes a high and rugged summit in the Torngat Mountains in the far north, above-timberline expanses of the Chic-Chocs in the south, gentle hills in the area east of Montreal, huge flat expanses in the St. Lawrence valley, and many remote knobs in the vast watery maze of the Laurentians and the Canadian Shield. By area, Quebec is the largest state or province in North America (bigger than Alaska) and there is a lot of terrain here to cover.

Acknowledgments:

Thanks must be offered to Don Desrosiers, who kindly shared a well-researched Quebec MGRC list he had been working on, and to Gabriel Couët, who provided a wealth of information about various summits. Also, thanks to Ben Lostracco, who has contributed lots of data about Quebec mountains to this site.

Primary sources for this list were the CanVec web mapping service data, the NTS 1:50,000 maps from MyTopo.com, and old SoftMap CD-ROM set for the southeastern areas of the province, and the generous help of the individuals noted above. I tried to synthesize all these sources and cross-check across them all, in many cases trying to track down high points in the mind-numbing lake-studded terrain of the Canadian Shield. I am sure that there are still some errors on this list, and any corrections are welcome.

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Quebec MRCGs (Counties)

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