RIVIèRE-DU-LOUP, QUEBEC

'Rivière-du-Loup' (2006 population 18,586) is a small city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The city is the seat for the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality.
It is a traditional stopping point between Quebec City, the Maritimes and the Gaspé Peninsula. The Trans-Canada Highway turns south here and continues to Edmundston, New Brunswick. There is a ferry which crosses the river to Saint-Siméon, Quebec on the north shore. There is also an airport (IATA airport code YRI).

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History

Media

Television

Radio

People

External links

History

The city was named after the nearby river, whose name means ''Wolf's River'' in French. This name may have come from a native tribe known as "Les Loups" or from the many seals, known in French as ''loup-marin'' (sea wolves), once found at the river's mouth.
Rivière-du-Loup was originally established in 1673 as the seigneurie of Sieur Charles-Aubert de la Chesnaye. The community was incorporated as the village of 'Fraserville', in honour of early settler Alexandre Fraser, in 1850, and became a city in 1910. The city reverted to its original name, Rivière-du-Loup, in 1919.
The city is known for its spectacular sunsets.

Media

Television

Rivière-du-Loup is an unusual television market, as each of its stations has ''two'' transmitters in the city. As a result of the region's hilly geography, it is virtually impossible for a television station to serve the entire area with a single transmitter, as parts of the broadcast area experience signal dropout. Accordingly, each station in the city has both a primary transmitter and a low-power rebroadcaster to serve viewers who cannot receive the primary signal.
Additionally, the city is served by Canada's only triple-stick operation, in which all three of its licensed stations are owned by the same company, Télé Inter-Rives.

★ Channel 7 (13) - CKRT (SRC)

★ Channel 9 (6) - CIMT (TVA)

★ Channel 29 (11) - CFTF (TQS)

Radio

★ FM 89.5 - CJBR-1, La Première Chaîne

★ FM 90.7 - CBRX-3, Espace musique

★ FM 103.7 - CIEL, AC

★ FM 107.1 - CIBM, CHR

★ FM 107.9 - CIBM-1

People

Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister, had a summer home in Rivière-du-Loup.
People born there include:

★ Dr. John McLoughlin, known as "the father of Oregon"

★ Allan Sirois, professional hockey player

External links

★ Official city site