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Shawinigan is a city located on the Saint - Maurice River in the Mauricie area in ___MASK70___ , ___MASK25___ . It had a population of 50 , 060 as of the ___MASK25___ 2011 Census . Mauricie is a traditional and current administrative region of ___MASK70___ . La Mauricie National Park is contained within the region , making it a prime tourist location . The region has a land area of 35 , 855 . 22 km² ( 13 , 843 . 78 sq mi ) and a 2006 census population of 258 , 928 residents . Its largest cities are Trois - Rivières and Shawinigan . Louis - Philippe Fiset ( 11 January 1854 -- 4 September 1934 ) was a local physician and politician in the Mauricie area . He served as Member of the Legislative Assembly . He was born in 1854 in Saint - Cuthbert , ___MASK70___ . ___MASK70___ ( pronounced or ) is the second - most populous province of ___MASK25___ and the only one to have a predominantly French - speaking population , with French as the sole provincial official language . Trois - Rivières is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of ___MASK70___ , ___MASK25___ , located at the confluence of the Saint - Maurice and Saint Lawrence Rivers , on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River across from the city of Bécancour . It is part of the densely populated ___MASK70___ City  Windsor Corridor and is approximately halfway between Montreal and ___MASK70___ City . Trois - Rivières is the economic and cultural hub of the Mauricie region . The settlement was founded on July 4 , 1634 , the second permanent in New France , after ___MASK70___ City in 1608 . La Mauricie National Park is located near Shawinigan in the Laurentian mountains , in the Mauricie region of ___MASK70___ , ___MASK25___ . It covers in the southern Canadian Shield region bordering the Saint Lawrence lowlands . The park contains 150 lakes and many ponds .