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Encyclopedia > Charny, Quebec

Charny is a small town in central Quebec, Canada, south of Quebec City. It is located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. The City of Charny was merged with Lévis on January 1, 2002. Motto: Je me souviens (French: I remember) Official languages French Capital Quebec City Largest city Montreal Lieutenant-Governor Lise Thibault Premier Jean Charest (PLQ) Parliamentary representation  - House seat  - Senate seats 75 24 Area Total  â€¢ Land  â€¢ Water    (% of total)  Ranked 2nd 1,542,056 km² 1,183,128 km² 176,928... Motto: « Don de Dieu feray valoir Â» (I shall put Gods gift to good use) Site in the province of Québec Official logo Provincial region Province Country Capitale-Nationale Québec Canada Gentilé Québécois, Québécoise Mayor Jean-Paul LAllier 1989-Dec. ... The Saint Lawrence River (French fleuve Saint-Laurent) is a large west-to-east flowing river in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. ... Lévis (officially Ville de Lévis) is a city in eastern Quebec, Canada. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ...


Over the last century, Charny has been tremendously influenced socially and economically by the Canadian National Railway which maintains a major national train yard in the town, Joffre Yard. This page is about centuries as units of time. ... Canadian National Railways logo or herald (used pre-1960) Network Map of Canadian National Railway The Canadian National Railway (CN; AAR reporting marks CN, CNA, CNIS), known as Canadian National Railways (CNR) between 1918 and 1960, and Canadian National/Canadien National (CN) from 1960 to present, is a Canadian Class...


Charny expanded in population during the late 1980s early 1990s when new neighbourhoods were surveyed and houses were built. The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ...


Charny has reached regional exposure many times over the last twenty years struggling with Alex Couture Inc., a plant who buys dead animal corpses in order to recycle them, producing salable by-products. The plant generated bad smell and odours throughout the city. The plant have install filter to screen out any odours. Region can be used to mean either: any more or less well-defined geographical area of a country or continent, defined by geography, culture or history in political geography, an administrative subdivision of a country or of the European Union. ...


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The impoverishment of the central areas of Quebec, the saturation of the municipal territory of Charny, the social and economical destabilisation of the town of Mayenne or else the "disorganization" of the urban areas of Nantes deeply impresses the spatial perceptions of the stake-holders of these towns.
The municipal stake-holders of Quebec and even Charny (where the level of diffusion and use of GIT is somehow quite low) own a more extended theoretical knowledge on the usefulness, potentials and limits of geomatic tools than their French homologues.
This difference might be related to the level of theoretical reflection, higher in Quebec than in France and the history of the development of geomatic in that country (Roche 1997).
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