Kiamika, Quebec
Kiamika | |
|---|---|
| Motto: Quel coup de cœur! | |
Location within Antoine-Labelle RCM | |
| Coordinates: 46°25′N 75°23′W / 46.417°N 75.383°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Laurentides |
| RCM | Antoine-Labelle |
| Settled | 1860s |
| Constituted | January 3, 1898 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Michel Dion |
| • Federal riding | Laurentides—Labelle |
| • Prov. riding | Labelle |
| Area | |
• Total | 362.94 km2 (140.13 sq mi) |
| • Land | 337.53 km2 (130.32 sq mi) |
| Population (2021) | |
• Total | 790 |
| • Density | 2.3/km2 (6/sq mi) |
| • Pop. (2016-21) | 4.4% |
| • Dwellings | 508 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area code | 819 |
| Highways | R-311 |
| Website | www |
Kiamika is a municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Antoine-Labelle Regional County Municipality.
Joseph Montferrand (1802–1864), a logger of imposing stature and extraordinary physical strength, was from Kiamika.
The municipality is named after the Kiamika River, which flows through its territory and is a tributary of the Lièvre River. This name, mentioned by Stanislas Drapeau as Kiamica and appearing on a map of Quebec by Eugène Taché from 1870, comes from the Algonquin word kickiamika meaning 'steep cut below the water', from kicki ('steep cut') and amick ('below the water').
However, an alternate meaning may be 'deep and quiet river', from the roots kiam ('deep') and ka ('quiet').