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Notre-Dame-du-Nord is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality. Its population in 2006 was 1,116. Notre-Dame-du-Nord is best known as the home of an annual truck rodeo held over the August Civic Holiday of each year, which brings over 650 trucks and 60,000 spectators to the town each year. Local attractions also include the Lake Timiskaming Fossil Centre, a museum and research institution dedicated to the fossils of the Témiscamingue region.
The municipality is located along Route 101. A town street, rue Ontario, extends westward from Route 101 to the Quebec-Ontario border, where it becomes Ontario's Highway 65.
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Coordinates: 47°35′43.3″N 79°29′8.9″W / 47.595361, -79.485806 (Notre-Dame-du-Nord, Quebec)
