Macamic

Macamic is a ville in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality. It covers 202.34 km² and had a populace of 2,734. Notwithstanding Macamic itself, the town's region likewise incorporates the network of Colombourg. Colonization started when the National Transcontinental Railway going through the Abitibi district was finished. The primary pioneers, arriving around 1913, were initially from Saint-Ignace-du-Lac, Pierreville, Stanfold, Nicolet, and Shawinigan.

They settled south of Lake Macamic and the new settlement took the lake's name, frequently composed likewise as Makamik. In the Algonquin dialect, the name Makamik signifies "limping beaver", from makis and amik. In 1914, Makamik had 100 occupants. In 1915, the year the mail station opened, it had developed to 300, and the next year, when the Parish of Saint-Jean-l'Evangeliste-de-Macamic was shaped, there were 500 people.

By 1918, the populace had bounced to 1750 and the region was joined as the United Township Municipality of Royal-Roussillon-et-Poularies, named after the Royal-Roussillon Regiment of Montcalm's armed force and after lieutenant-colonel Francois-Medard de Poularies, officer of this regiment. In 1919, the town itself isolated from the unified township and was consolidated as Village Municipality of Macamic, having a populace of 2300 people by 1920. In 1924, Poularies Township additionally isolated from Royal-Roussillon-et-Poularies, which turned into the Parish Municipality of Royal-Roussillon-de-Macamic in 1952, and formally abbreviated to only Macamic in 1961.