Amqui

Amqui is a city of the MRC of Matapédia with the Quebec. It is established with the crossroads of the rivers Humqui and Matapédia, on the river banks Matapédia, between Valley-Brilliance and Lake-with-Salmon, with the intersection of the provincial roads 132 and 195.

The town of Amqui was created in January 1991 following fusion between the old municipality of the village of Amqui which had obtained its statute of city in 1961 and the municipality of the parish of Saint-Benoit-Joseph-Labre, created officially in 1890. The municipality of the village of Amqui had been created in 1907, under the original name of municipality of the village of Saint-Benoit-Joseph-Labre in consequence of his detachment of the homonymous municipality of parish.

The valley of Matapédia was worked during the primary era, there is that of the million years, of glacial origin, fact part of the chain of the the Appalachian Mountains and more specifically of the Monts Notre-Dame. Amqui is characterized by a large valley with soft slopes, where curves the Rivière Matapédia north-western directed, south-eastern.

The climate has influenced for more than one hundred years the practices of life of Amquiens and Amquiennes. This climate is of continental type wet. Daily variations of temperature are present: high temperatures in summer and colder in winter. An annual total of precipitations weaker than elsewhere in area.

Toponymy

The word Intrigue amqui, also raised under the C-Ws communication humqui, ankwi, unkoui, has as significances: where one has fun, where one plays; place of recreation and pleasure. The play of which it is question could refer to the vorticity water, but it seems that only one source accredits this explanation. It is necessary to see rather there the concrete sign of merry gatherings of Amerindians formerly. The Amerindian presence was maintained besides in this territory until the beginning of the 20th century. The father Joseph-Etienne Guinard finds however whimsical the place translation of recreation and pleasure and prefers the direction of comrade or brother-in-law. The Peaceful father, specialist in the micmaque language, proposes as for him the explanation, half ripe, drawn from the bringing together with the word intrigue amgoig, assumption which however collected only very little of supports up to now.

Inheritance

Park of the National Canadian

The Gare of Amqui is a station out of wooden of two floors, built in 1904. It is protected by the federal government under the terms of the Law on protection from the patrimonial railway stations since 1993.

The station of the Canadian National is representative of the boom of the turning of the century, and the related expansion of the railway companies in general and the Railroad Intercolonial (CFI) in particular. Amqui depended on the railroad to transport its agricultural produce and its parts finished out of wood. Thereafter, Amqui became an important stopover on the driving route of Montreal to Halifax.

The design of the station of Amqui is unusual for a station of the CFI. It is characterized by its design on two floors, sheltering the housing of its family and station master.

Municipalities bordering

Sources

Repertory of the municipalities of Quebec
Commission of toponymy of Quebec
municipal Businesses and areas - regional charts

External bonds

Official site Amqui
tourist Page on Amqui

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