Portneuf County (French: comté de Portneuf, pronounced [kɔ̃te də pɔʁnœf]) is a historic county in Quebec, Canada west of Quebec City on the Saint Lawrence River in Canada.
The county seat was Cap-Santé. Previously named Hampshire County (after Hampshire, England) formed in 1792 at the end of the French Regime from the former Montreal District and as a constituent riding for the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada before being renamed Portneuf County by a law of the province of Lower Canada (9 George IV ch. LXXII) in 1829. It was bounded on the west by Champlain County on the northeast by Quebec County, and on the south by Lotbiniere County. Portneuf County consisted of six former seigneuries.
In the early 1980s, Quebec abolished its counties and most of Portneuf County became the Portneuf Regional County Municipality. The southeastern part of the county was transferred to La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality and the Quebec Urban Community (now Quebec City) while parts of western Portneuf County were transferred to Mékinac Regional County Municipality.
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Constituent towns, municipalities and parishes
Neuville
Pointe-aux-Trembles
Cap-Santé
Pointe-aux-Écureuils, Quebec
Donnacona
Sainte-Catherine-de-Portneuf
Sainte-Jeanne-de-Pont-Rouge
Notre-Dame-des-Anges
Montauban-les-Mines
Lac-au-Sables
Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures
Grondines
Deschambault
Saint-Raymond
Lac-Sergent
Notre-Dame-de-Portneuf
Saint-Basile-Sud
Saint-Basile
Notre-Dame-de-Portneuf
Portneuf
Fossambault-sur-le-Lac
Duchesnay
Jacques-Cartier
Saint-Casimir
Saint-Léonard-du-Port-Maurice
Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne
Perthuis
Saint-Gilbert
Saint-Marc-des-Carrières
Saint-Alban
Saint-Thuribe
Saint-Ubalde
Val-Bélair
Creation of the county
Initially, Portneuf County included the parishes of Saint-Casimir, Grondines, Deschambault, Cap-Santé, St-Basile, Saint-Raymond-Nonnat, Sainte-Catherine, Les Écureuils, Pointe-aux-Trembles, Saint-Augustin, Saint-Alban and the townships of Gosford, Alton, Roquemont of Montauban and Colbert.