Municipality of Val-Des-Monts

Overview

The Municipality of Val-Des-Monts is one of seven constituent Municipalities of the regional Municipality of the county Collines-de-l’Outaouais.

The territory of the Municipality is limited in the north by the MRC of the Vallée-de-la-Gatineau and of Papineau, to the east by the Municipalities of Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette and Ange-Gardien, to the west by the Municipality of La Pêche, and at last to the south by the Municipality of Cantley and the territory of the community of the Outaouais. The territory which makes up the Municipality of Val-Des-Monts is composed mainly of more than 125 lakes, farmland and virgin forests, which grouped together, carry a large commercial value.

Val-Des-Monts gets it’s name from its many valleys and mountains. The residents of the Municipality are known as "Montvalois". Val-des-Monts’ population is currenly estimated to be 9,200. In the summer, the population increases to more than 10,000 boosting the total population to more than 19,000.

The permanent municipal population is concentrated in three sectors: Perkins, Saint-Pierre-de-Wakefield and Poltimore, the former towns which carried these names. They were ammalgamated in 1975 and 1976 to form the Municipality of Val-Des-Monts.

(Source: Val-Des-Monts website, other information)

Population and Dwellings, Val-des-Monts, 1986-2001

(Source: City of Ottawa website; Statistics Canada Census data, 1986-2001)

Lakes of Val-des-Monts

A-B

Lac Achigan, Lac Armida, Lac des Atacas, Lac Barnes, Lac à Barnet, Lac du Barrage, Lac Bastien, Lac Battaile, Lac Benoit, Lac aux Billots, Lac Blair, Lac Blueberry, Lac du Bois Franc, Lac Bois Franc, Lac Bonin, Lac Bonsall, Lac de la Boue, Lac Bout a Bout, Lac bran de Scie, Lac Brassard, Petit Lac du Brochet, Lac Buckes, Lac à Butor,

C-D

Lac de la Campe d'Ours, Lac Campeau, Lac aux Castor, Lac aux Cèdres, Lac Central, Lac Chamberlain, Lac du Chantier Brule, Lac Charbonneau, Lac Chevreuil, Lac du Chevreuil, Lac Clair, Lac Claude, Lac Coco, Lac Colbert, Lac Corrigan, Lac Corriveau, Lac Croche, Lac Dam, Petit Lac de la Dame, Lac Davis, Lac Dodds, Lac Donavan,

E-H

Lac Edges, Lac Edwards, Lac Ellsworth, Lac des Epinettes, Lac Farley, Petit Lac Farley, Lac à Foins, Lac Forked, Lac à Freeburg, Lac Galipeau, Lac Gardiner, Lac Gauvin, Lac Gilmour, Lac Girard, Lac du Gouvernement, Lac Grand, Lac Green, Lac Grondin, Lac Heronniere, Lac Houston, Lac Huot, Petit Lac Huot, Lac à Hynes, Lac Indian, Petit Lac Joe,

K-M

Lac Lachaine, Lac de l'Aigle, Lac à Laurin, Lac à l'Eau Clair, Lac à l'Eau Rouge, Lac de l'Ecluse, Lac l'Etourneau, Lac de la Loutre, Lac de l'Union, Lac Manuel, Lac du Marber, Lac Maria-Goretti, Petit Lac a Martin, Lac Maskinonge, Lac des Mauves, Lac McArthur, Lac McArthur, Lac McCarthy, Lac McFee, Petit Lac McFee, Lac McGarry, Lac McGlashan, Lac McGregor, Lac McLaren, Lac McLeod, Lac McMullin, Lac McNab, Lac de la Montagne, Lac Morel, Lac Murray,

N-R

Lac Nadeau, Lac Newcombe, Lac Newton, Lac Noir, Lac Orange, Lac Paquette, Lac Paquin, Petit Lac Pelissier, Lac Pennock, Lac à la Perdrix, Lac Perdu, Lac Petit Joe, Lac Pip, Lac du Ravage, Lac Rencurel, Lac Rhéaume, Lac Robinson,

S-Z

Lac Saint-Antoine, Lac Sainte-Hélène, Lac Saint-Germain, Lac Saint-Pierre, Lac Sanscartiers, Lac Scattergood, Petit Lac Serpent, Lac Sheridan, Lac Star, Lac Sucker, Lac Tenpenny, Lac Terreur, Lac à Thom, Lac à la Truite, Petit Lac de la Truite, Lac Twin, Lac Vert, Lac Wallingford, Lac Waters, Lac Wright

(Source: local maps.)

Val-des-Monts Lake Surface Area and Depth

(Sources: "Superficie et profondeur des principaux lacs du Québec / Surface area and water depth of Québec lakes", FAPEL.)