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Amos
Town
Skyline of Amos and the Harricana River
Coat of arms
Location within Abitibi RCM.
Amos Location in western Quebec.
Coordinates: 48°34′N 78°07′W / 48.567°N 78.117°W / 48.567; -78.117Coordinates: 48°34′N 78°07′W / 48.567°N 78.117°W / 48.567; -78.117[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Abitibi-Témiscamingue
RCM	Abitibi
Settled	1910
Constituted	January 17, 1987
Government[2][3]
• Mayor	Sébastien D'Astous
• Federal riding	Abitibi—Témiscamingue
• Prov. riding	Abitibi-Ouest
• MNA:	François Gendron (PQ)
Area[2][4]
• Town	435.10 km2 (167.99 sq mi)
• Land	430.67 km2 (166.28 sq mi)
• Urban[5]	7.91 km2 (3.05 sq mi)
• Metro[6]	1,650.99 km2 (637.45 sq mi)
Elevation[7]	310.00 m (1,017.06 ft)
Population (2011)[4]
• Town	12,671
• Density	29.4/km2 (76/sq mi)
• Urban[5]	9,400
• Urban density	1,188.8/km2 (3,079/sq mi)
• Metro[6]	17,090
• Metro density	10.4/km2 (27/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	0.7%
• Dwellings	5,787
Time zone	EST (UTC−5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−4)
Postal code(s)	J9T
Area code(s)	819
Highways	Route 109 Route 111 Route 395
Website	www.ville.amos.qc.ca

Amos is a town in northwestern Quebec, Canada, on the Harricana River. It is the seat of Abitibi Regional County Municipality.

Amos is the main town on the Harricana River, and the smallest of the three primary towns — after Rouyn-Noranda and Val-d'Or — in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec. Its main resources are spring water, gold and wood products, including paper. In 2012, Quebec Lithium Corp. re-opened Canada's first lithium mine, which had operated as an underground mine from 1955–65. They are planning to carve an open pit mine over pegmatite dikes. (The pegmatite is about 1% lithium carbonate.) The mine is about 60 kilometres (37 mi) north of Val d'Or, 38 kilometres (24 mi) southeast of Amos, and 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) km west of Barraute. It is in the northeast corner of La Corne Township. Access to the mine is via paved road from Val d'Or.^[8]

The smaller communities of Lac-Gauvin and Saint-Maurice-de-Dalquier are also within the municipal boundaries of Amos.

History

The Amos Roman Catholic Cathedral

Rupert's Land, in which Abitibi was located, was owned by the Hudson's Bay Company and was bought by Canada in 1869. Abitibi itself was then annexed to the province in Quebec on June 13, 1898 by an act of the federal Parliament.

Amos was the first colonisation point for the region of Abitibi, with colonization beginning in 1910. The municipality was established in 1914 while the city itself was chartered in 1925. The name of the city came from the maiden name of the wife of Sir Lomer Gouin, then premier of Quebec.

A related municipality was created in 1917 under the name 'Municipalité de la partie ouest des cantons unis de Figuery et Dalquier' (Municipality of the western part of the united townships of Figuery and Dalquier) which changed its name to Amos-Ouest in 1949. In 1974 the municipality fused with the city of Amos proper. Another related municipality was created in 1918 under the name 'Municipalité de la partie est des cantons Figuery et Dalquier' (Municipality of the eastern part of the united townships of Figuery and Dalquier), which also changed its name later 1950 to Amos-Est. The municipality was finally integrated into the city of Amos itself in 1987.

Government

Former mayor Ulrick Chérubin during an event associated with Amos' centennial celebration.

The current mayor of the city is Sébastien D'Astous, who took office on February 20, 2015 after winning a by-election^[9] following the death in office of former mayor Ulrick Chérubin in September 2014. In the by-election D'Astous, formerly a city councillor, defeated Donald Blanchet, who had served as interim mayor between Chérubin's death and the by-election.

In the National Assembly of Quebec, Amos is within the electoral district of Abitibi-Ouest, represented by Parti Québécois MNA François Gendron. In the House of Commons of Canada, the city is in the Abitibi—Témiscamingue district, represented by NDP MP Christine Moore.

Amos is the seat of the judicial district of Abitibi.^[10]

Mayors

• 
  Hector Authier, 1914-1918


• 
  David Gourd, 1918-1921^[11]
  


• Joseph Grenier, 1921-1923


• J.O. Germain, 1923-1928


• T.A. Lalonde, 1928-1929


• J.É. Montambault, 1929-1931


• Julien Beaudry, 1931-1934


• G.A. Brunet, 1934-1939


• Fridolin Simard, 1939-1943


• G.A. Brunet, 1943-1947


• Fridolin Simard, 1947-1957


• G.A. Brunet, 1957-1965


• Gérard Magny, 1965-1971


• 
  Jean-Hugues Boutin, 1971-1974


• Laurier St-Laurent, 1974-1982


• Marcel Lesyk, 1982-1987


• Jean-Paul Veilleux, 1987-1990


• André Brunet, 1990-1998


• Murielle Angers-Turpin, 1998-2002


• 
  Ulrick Chérubin, 2002-2014^[12]
  


• Donald Blanchet, 2014-2015


• Sébastien D'Astous, 2015–present

Media

Demographics

Amos, postcard 1930-1948

The town's urban area had a population of 9,400 in the Canada 2011 Census. Its census agglomeration, which consists of Amos itself, the municipalities of Saint-Dominique-du-Rosaire, Saint-Félix-de-Dalquier, Saint-Mathieu-d'Harricana, Sainte-Gertrude-Manneville, the township municipality of Trécesson and the First Nations reserve of Pikogan, had a population of 17,090.

In the Canada 2006 Census, the census agglomeration had been defined differently: it did not include Saint-Félix-de-Dalquier but did include Landrienne and Saint-Marc-de-Figuery.^[13]

Population trend:^[14]

• Population in 2011: 12,671 (2006 to 2011 population change: 0.7%)


• Population in 2006: 12,584


• Population in 2001: 13,044


• Population in 1996: 13,632


• Population in 1991: 13,783

Climate

Amos has, as is typical for this part of Canada, a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfb), just above a subarctic climate, with warm summers, very cold winters and heavy precipitation for most of the year.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Amos, Quebec.

• Ville d'Amos