The municipal history of Quebec started in 1796 with the creation of administrations for Montréal and Quebec City, but it really developed in a first time after 1841, when, on 1 July 1845, the Parliament of the Province of Canada adopted a law (8 Victoria, chapter 40) to create local authorities in Lower Canada.
Those localities were disbanded 1 September 1847 by the law 10-11 Victoria, chapter 7, to create county municipalities, but were reinstated 1 July 1855 by the law 18 Victoria, chapter 100. This same bill provided the right to settlements out of a parish populated with more than 300 inhabitants to become a municipality 1 January of the following year. Another act later provided new conditions for the creation of municipalities (23 Victoria chapter 61).
For more than a century localities changed little. The major modifications were from the colonization of new territories. Until 2002 and 2006, there were no major reorganizations in the municipal history of Quebec, with the notable exceptions of Laval, Mirabel and Bécancour.
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