Marmier township is located in the municipalities of Lac-aux-Sables and Notre-Dame-de-Montauban, in the Mekinac Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Mauricie, on the north shore of Saint Lawrence River, Quebec, Canada.
[1] In Quebec, a "canton" (township in English) is a historic cadastral division of the territory to facilitate the grant of public lands to individuals for colonization.
The lakes of the Marmier township are: Germain, "du Midi", Hackett, Fontaine, Price, Bégin, du Milieu, Boiteau, Buffon, Profond et Terrien.
Marmier township was formalized in the register of place names of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (Geographical Names Board of Québec), on December 5, 1968.
The name "Marmier township" originated in honor of a French prolific writer Xavier Marmier (1809-1892), originally from Pontarlier (east of France), in the Doubs.