Lac-Saguay
Lac-Saguay is a village municipality in Antoine-Labelle Regional County Municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada.
Lac-Saguay | |
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Location within Antoine-Labelle RCM | |
Lac-Saguay Location in central Quebec | |
| Coordinates: 46°30′N 75°09′W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Laurentides |
| RCM | Antoine-Labelle |
| Constituted | July 1, 1951 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Michel Chouinard |
| • Federal riding | Laurentides—Labelle |
| • Prov. riding | Labelle |
| Area | |
| • Total | 185.18 km2 (71.50 sq mi) |
| • Land | 171.88 km2 (66.36 sq mi) |
| Population (2021) | |
| • Total | 526 |
| • Density | 3.1/km2 (8/sq mi) |
| • Pop. 2016-2021 | 14.6% |
| • Dwellings | 447 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | J0W 1L0 |
| Area code | 819 |
| Highways | R-117 (TCH) |
| Website | www |
Its economy is centred on tourism, outdoor recreation, hunting, and fishing.
The municipality is named after the adjacent Lake Saguay, which in turn comes from the Algonquin sagwa, meaning "unblock" or "pour". An alternate explanation is that it comes from saki, meaning "river mouth."
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