Saint-Lambert () is a city (french: ville) in southwestern

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, Canada, located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, opposite

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. It is part of the Urban agglomeration of Longueuil of the

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administrative region. It was home to 21,861 people according to the

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. Saint-Lambert is divided into two main sections: the original city of Saint-Lambert and the Préville neighbourhood. The original city of Saint-Lambert (as it existed prior to 1969) is located from the

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golf course to the border of the

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borough. It includes the city's downtown, known as "The Village". On the other side of the Country Club of Montreal is the former city of Préville, which merged with Saint-Lambert in 1969. It extends to the borders of the city of

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and the Longueuil borough of Greenfield Park. Saint-Lambert was named for the early

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History

In 1636,

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was dividing up seigneuries in the new colony of

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. One of these was known as La Prairie, comprising La Prairie de la Magdeleine and La Prairie de Saint-Lambert. The lower part of the latter, was known as Mouillepied, due to the swampy conditions of the area. Saint-Lambert's first two permanent residents were André Marsil and André Achim in the 18th century. Today André Marsil's house can be found on the corner of Riverside Drive and Notre-Dame Avenue, was converted into a

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museum called the Marsil Museum (french: Musée Marsil), although the museum has since moved to the Bonsecours Market. In 1722, Mouillepied was transferred from La Prairie seigneurie to Saint-Antoine-de-Longueuil parish. Following the establishment of the

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in 1852 and the completion of the Victoria Bridge in 1859, the village received a permanent link to the

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. The Victoria Bridge is the oldest bridge linking Montreal to the South Shore, and carried the first rail line linking Quebec's largest city to

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. Because of this, Saint-Lambert became an important passenger and freight stop for a long period of time. This is evident in the city's architecture, in which many old industrial buildings are found near the railway tracks. Many of these have since been converted into

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s such as the former

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factory, originally built in 1908. RailTram 19091030 MSC PremierTramArriveASt-Lambert

With the bridge and railway came a quick growth in Saint-Lambert's population and the construction of new housing. Saint-Lambert detached itself from Saint-Antoine-de-Longueuil and achieved municipality status in 1857, under its first mayor, Louis Bétournay. At the time, Saint-Lambert did not include Mouillepied, which instead had remained in Saint-Antoine-de-Longueuil. In 1892, Saint-Lambert reached village status, attained town status in 1898 and city status in 1921. During

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and

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, Saint-Lambert had one of the highest military enlistment rates in Canada. The small city lost a total of 132 soldiers in both wars. This number was a significant portion of the young people at the time. Saint-Lambert Cenotaph 2014

In the 1950s, the development of Saint-Lambert was enhanced with the building of the St. Lambert Locks in the St. Lawrence Seaway, to bypass the smaller Lachine Canal, and this became the most easterly lock in the Seaway. Suburban growth from Montreal in this period also affected Saint-Lambert, as well as many of the older communities on the South Shore. Since its establishment, the city's limits have barely changed. In 1948, the old Mouillepied area of the town of

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was split off and erected into the town of Préville. It merged with Saint-Lambert in 1969. Saint-Lambert had an

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majority population starting in 1881, and throughout most of the 20th century. Saint-Lambert had 12,460 anglophones and was 61% anglophone as recently as the 1981 census. This started to change, as it increasingly become the home to upper class francophone families, in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. The late 1990s saw the construction of a new residential neighbourhood in Saint-Lambert, known as "Le Haut Saint-Lambert". It was built on the remaining vacant land in city limits near LeMoyne. In 2007, the city of Saint-Lambert celebrated its 150th anniversary. ;Amalgamation and de-amalgamation On January 1, 2002, municipal reorganization merged Saint-Lambert with LeMoyne to form a borough in the new

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mega-city. There was a strong "de-merger" movement and a referendum was won on June 20, 2004, to re-establish the former city. The city was officially reborn on January 1, 2006, while on January 7, 2006, the Saint-Lambert flag was hoisted in front of city hall and the mayor, councillors and city manager took their oath of office.

Geography

Saint-Lambert is underlain by

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period

black shale Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especiall ...

. This bedrock is covered by deep clay drift over most of the town. Soils were poorly drained in their natural state; as such, they were classified as

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s—strongly acidic (Longueuil series) under most of the town and neutral to mildly alkaline (Boucherville series) in part of the western section (Préville). Drainage and excavation have been used to adapt the soil for housing construction. The most common trees in Saint-Lambert are those species which tolerate poor drainage. These include poplars,

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s, red maple,

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and green ash. The American elm was formerly abundant but its population has been severely reduced by

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. Non-native species are commonly represented by Norway maple,

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English oak ''Quercus robur'', commonly known as common oak, pedunculate oak, European oak or English oak, is a species of flowering plant in the beech and oak family, Fagaceae. It is a large tree, native plant, native to most of Europe west of the Caucasus ...

, blue spruce,

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and honey locust. Rare exotics which benefit from St-Lambert's favorable microclimate include

Japanese maple ''Acer palmatum'', commonly known as Japanese maple, palmate maple, or smooth Japanese maple (Japanese: ''irohamomiji'', , or ''momiji'', (栴), is a species of woody plant native to Japan, Korea, China, eastern Mongolia, and southeast Rus ...

and tulip tree. Most trees in Saint-Lambert show some evidence of damage from an ice storm in January 1998 and a severe thunderstorm in June 2008.

Climate

The climate of Saint-Lambert is characterized by abundant precipitation and one of the longest, warmest growing seasons in Quebec. As in other parts of Greater Montreal, lengthy spells of hot humid weather are common in summer.

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s are frequent and occasionally cause widespread damage. Heavy snow is usual in winter and several damaging

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s have occurred over the town's history.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Saint-Lambert had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Linguistically, as of the

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of 2016, 73.34% of the population were native speakers of

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, 12.64%

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, 2.82%

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, 1.52%

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, 0.85%

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, 0.69% Persian, 0.66%

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, 0.57%

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, 1.59% both English and French, 0.36% French and a non-official language, 0.36% English and a non-official language, and 0.19% English, French and a non-official language. In the city the population was spread out, with 15.1% under the age of 15, 9.8% from 15 to 24, 19.6% from 25 to 44, 29.2% from 45 to 64, and 26.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 48.5 years. 45% of the population is male, and 55% is female. As of the 2006 Census, the median income for a household in the city was $61,583, and the median income for a family was $89,786. The

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for the city was $36,293. About 11.9% of the population were low income, including 9.0% of those under age 18. The average value of an owned dwelling was $311,329.2006 Statistics Canada Community Profile: Saint-Lambert, Quebec
/ref> In terms of ethnic origin, 50.6% identified as

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, 39.6%

, 9.7% Irish, 7.8%

, 6.4% Scottish, 4.1%

, 3.7%

, 2.4% First Nations, 1.7%

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, 1.7%

, and 1.6% Chinese. According to the

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census, there were 15,690

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s in Saint-Lambert, who accounted for seventy-six percent of the population.Statistics Canada - Saint-Lambert 2001 Community Profile
Additionally, there were 1,970

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s in Saint-Lambert in 2001, accounting for 9.5% of all residents. The number of non-Christians in Saint-Lambert amounts to less than five percent of the population, and 9.6% of the population observe no religion whatsoever.

Economy

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Most of Saint-Lambert's commercial activity is based on Victoria Avenue, particularly on the part of the strip in the city's downtown (between Riverside Drive and the CN tracks), known as "the Village". This part of Victoria is most notably the location to the flagship of Taylor's department store. On this part of Victoria alone, there are around 44 businesses that sell durable and semi-durable goods; 22 cafés, bistros and restaurants and 960 street parking spaces. Around 50% of customers in the area come by automobile and 40% come by foot. Saint-Lambert is also home to Groupe Serdy, the owner of cable television specialty channels Évasion and

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. Roctest, a firm that specializes in making instrumentation for civil engineering projects also has its head office and factory in Saint-Lambert. Other notable Saint-Lambert businesses include Les Éditions Héritage book publisher and a

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(formerly Lido Biscuit) cookie factory.

Arts and culture

There are a handful of notable cultural institutions based in Saint-Lambert, such as Le Balcon d'Art and La Foire d'Art Contemporain de Saint-Lambert. Saint-Lambert is also home to the Saint Lambert Municipal Memorial Library. It has two branches, the main branch is located on Mercille Avenue, and the other branch located in Préville. Various large events take place annually in Saint-Lambert. One of these is Saint-Lambert Days, which takes place over a four-day period in late August and features live concerts and performances, games, and sidewalk sales. More than 80,000 people attend St. Lambert Days each year. There are three

churches in Saint-Lambert: ''Église catholique de St-Lambert'' and ''Église catholique Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin'' serve Francophone Catholics, and ''St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church'' serves Anglophone Catholics. There are also five

churches in Saint-Lambert which also serve neighbouring municipalities: ''St. Barnabas Anglican Church'', ''St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church'', ''St. Lambert United Church'', the ''South Shore Seventh-day Adventist Church'' and ''Good Shepherd Lutheran Church''.

Government

Municipal

The mayor of the City of Saint-Lambert is Pascale Mongrain, who became the city's first female mayor in the 2021 election. There are eight city councillors.

Federal and provincial

Traditionally, the city of Saint-Lambert is predominantly

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, specifically Liberal both federally and provincially. Despite this, in federal politics the riding tends to usually go in favour of the

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, because it includes a considerable portion of the more sovereigntist borough of

in Longueuil. The city of Saint-Lambert is located in the federal riding of Brossard-Saint-Lambert, and its

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of the

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. In provincial politics, Saint-Lambert forms part of the Laporte riding and its

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is Nicole Ménard of the

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. The provincial riding is named after

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, a Quebec government cabinet minister who was kidnapped from outside his Saint-Lambert home and murdered by the

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in the

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of 1970.

Transport

;Roads

Saint-Lambert is served by the most important autoroute in Quebec province: Autoroute 20 . Saint-Lambert is also served by one of the most important provincial highway: Route 132. The Route 112 is also serving Saint-Lambert. Important streets in Saint-Lambert include Victoria Avenue, Notre-Dame Street, Green Street, Desaulniers Boulevard, Riverside Drive, Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier Boulevard, Simard Boulevard and Tiffin Road. In Saint-Lambert, two bridges link with Montreal (one to the Old Port and the other one, a bridge meant for bicycles, that connects to Île Notre-Dame). The Victoria Bridge links Saint-Lambert to

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. The Jacques Cartier Bridge in

is half a kilometre from Saint-Lambert and the Champlain Bridge in

is a kilometre away from Saint-Lambert. ;Passenger rail

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serves

Saint-Lambert railway station Saint-Lambert station in Saint-Lambert, Quebec, Canada, serves Exo commuter rail, Via Rail and Amtrak intercity rail, and RTL buses. It is located at 329 Saint-Denis Ave. at the corner of Victoria Ave. The station is served by two Via Rail lin ...

with its daily Montreal-Quebec City, Montreal-Gaspé and Montreal-Halifax trains.

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, the U.S. national passenger rail system, also provides daily service to Saint-Lambert railway station, operating its Adirondack in both directions between

and

, using the Victoria Bridge.

is also served by

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on the

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. ;Transit Bus service in Saint-Lambert is provided by the

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. It is served by routes 1, 2, 6, 13, 14, 15, 37. 54. 55, 106 and 115. Bus service was originally provided by Chambly Transport as well as the Commission de Transport de la Communauté Urbaine de Montréal.

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service was operated until 1956 by the

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Education

The highest level of the educational facilities in Saint-Lambert is the public anglophone

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with 2,500 students,

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which also houses an office for

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. The

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has jurisdiction over three

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primary schools in Saint-Lambert, École Des Saints-Anges, École Rabeau and Préville Elementary. Collège Durocher Saint-Lambert is a large French language

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school and is therefore not affiliated with any school board. It consists of two campuses, the Saint-Lambert Campus on the corner of Riverside and Notre-Dame Avenue as well as the Durocher Campus on the corner of Riverside and Tiffin Road, opposite Champlain Regional College. The

English language English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the ...

Riverside School Board The Riverside School Board (RSB, french: Commission scolaire Riverside) is an English-language school board in the province of Quebec and provides educational services and programs to all students who have a certificate of eligibility for English ...

operates five schools on Saint-Lambert's territory. The most notable of these is the IB-accredited

Saint-Lambert International High School Saint-Lambert International High School (previously known as Chambly Academy or Chambly County High School) is a public secondary school, in Saint-Lambert, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 675 Green Street and borders the Club De Golf St-Lambert ...

which is home to over five-hundred students from Grade 7-Grade 11. The other secondary school that the board operates in the city is The Alternate School which is meant to reintegrate at-risk youth into mainstream society.

St. Lambert Elementary School St. Lambert Elementary School is an elementary school belonging to the Riverside School Board. The School is located in Saint-Lambert, Quebec, Canada and is the only English-language elementary school that serves the city of Saint-Lambert. Th ...

serves Kindergarten to Grade 6, and also houses around five-hundred students. Intellectually disabled students are served by REACH School as well as a program at Saint-Lambert International High School geared toward their academic success. ACCESS Continuing Education and Career Training Centre is an

adult education Adult education, distinct from child education, is a practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained self-educating activities in order to gain new forms of knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values. Merriam, Sharan B. & Brockett, Ral ...

institution, helping adults and immigrants get high school diplomas. The

South Shore Protestant Regional School Board The South Shore Protestant Regional School Board (SSPRSB) was a Protestant Christian school district in Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It served the South Shore region and it was headquartered in St. Lambert. The district operated elementary a ...

previously served the municipality.

Sports

Saint-Lambert is home to the St. Lambert Locks RFC men's and women's

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...

teams, which belong to

Rugby Quebec Rugby may refer to: Sport * Rugby football in many forms: ** Rugby league: 13 players per side *** Masters Rugby League *** Mod league *** Rugby league nines *** Rugby league sevens *** Touch (sport) *** Wheelchair rugby league ** Rugby unio ...

. It is also represented by the Blue Machine swimming team. At the intercollegiate level, St. Lambert is represented by the

Cavaliers, which field both men's and women's teams in

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players p ...

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

cross country running Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open cou ...

Canadian football Canadian football () is a sport played in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed oval-shaped ball into the opposing team's scoring area ( ...

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

and

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

. Both of Saint-Lambert's secondary schools also field teams. Saint-Lambert is also home to several sports venues including the Eric Sharp Arena, an indoor

swimming pool A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool, or simply pool, is a structure designed to hold water to enable Human swimming, swimming or other leisure activities. Pools can be built into the ground (in-ground pools) or built ...

and a recreation centre. It also has several outdoor athletics facilities situated in parks.

Media

The city of Saint-Lambert is home to one weekly newspaper, the bilingual ''St-Lambert Journal''. It is also served by a regional

French-language French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in No ...

weekly newspaper, ''

Le Courrier du Sud ''Le Courrier du Sud'' is a free French-language weekly tabloid newspaper based in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. The newspaper is distributed to 143,992 homes in the cities of Longueuil (boroughs of Le Vieux-Longueuil, Saint-Hubert and Greenfiel ...

'', which is based out of neighbouring

Notable natives and residents

* Douglas Bennett (1918-2008), won silver medal in canoeing (Men's Canadian Singles, 1000 metres) at

1948 Summer Olympics in London The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca ...

* Louis Bétournay (1825-1879), first French-Canadian judge in Manitoba (appointed 1872) * Ian A. Bourne, Chief Financial Officer, GE Canada, Inc. (1985-1989); Senior Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer,

Canada Post Canada Post Corporation (french: Société canadienne des postes), trading as Canada Post (french: Postes Canada), is a Crown corporation that functions as the primary postal operator in Canada. Originally known as Royal Mail Canada (the operat ...

Corporation (1992-1997); Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, TransAlta Corporation (1998-2005); Vice-Chairman/Interim CEO, SNC-Lavalin Group, Inc. (2012); Chairman of the Board, SNC-Lavalin Group, Inc. (2012-2015); Chairman of the Board,

Ballard Power Systems Ballard Power Systems Inc. is a developer and manufacturer of proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell products for markets such as heavy-duty motive (consisting of bus and tram applications), portable power, material handling as well as engine ...

, Inc. (2006-2018); grew up on Edison Avenue (played for Victoria Park teams in the CSA) during the '50s and '60s. * Miriam Burland (1902-1996), first woman astronomer/astrophysicist on staff at the Dominion Observatory (1927) *

Régine Chassagne Régine Alexandra Chassagne (; born 19 August 1976) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist, and is a member of the band Arcade Fire. She is married to co-founder Win Butler. Early life and career Régine Alexand ...

,co-founder of

Arcade Fire Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band, consisting of husband and wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, alongside Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara. The band's current touring line-up also includes former core mem ...

, a Canadian indie alternative rock band *

Arlette Cousture Arlette Cousture, (born April 3, 1948) is a Canadian writer. She writes historical fiction, often depicting the lives of women in Quebec.Mary Jean Matthews Green. Women and Narrative Identity: Rewriting the Quebec National Text'. McGill-Queen's P ...

, French-Canadian novelist * Steve Kasper, NHL hockey player (1980-1993); head coach of the

Boston Bruins The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston. The Bruins compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference. The team has been in existence since 1924, making ...

(1995-1997); grew up on L'Esperance St. in the '60s and '70s *

, Quebec politician; resident of Robitaille St. at the time of his kidnapping and murder in 1970 * Don MacIver, played six games for the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League (NHL) in the winter of 1979-80 but did not register a point. Grew up on Upper Edison Avenue from the mid-50s to mid-70s * W. Allen McLaren, recipient of the Polar Medal; grew up on Hickson Avenue during the 40s and 50s * Thornton "Tee" McLaren, captain of the 1977 Queensland team which won the Australian (ice) hockey championship; brother of W. Allen McLaren (above) *

Jim Munson Jim Munson (born July 14, 1946) is a former Canadian Senator and retired journalist. Early life and education Jim Munson was born in Woodstock, New Brunswick, although spent most of his childhood in Campbellton. His father was a minister in ...

, Canadian senator; resided in St-Lambert during his high school years (1960-1964) * Jean-Marc Pelletier, played seven games as goalie in the National Hockey League (NHL) for

Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since ...

and Phoenix, winning one (1998-2004) *

Harold William Hounsfield Riley Harold William Hounsfield Riley Sr. (December 15, 1877 – January 1, 1946) was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was born in St. Lambert, Quebec and his family moved to Calgary in 1888. On October 31, 1911 after the death ...

(1877-1946), moved to Calgary when he was eleven years old; appointed Deputy Provincial Secretary of Alberta on the formation of the Province in 1905 *

Todd Swift Stanley Todd Swift (born April 8, 1966), is a British-Canadian poet, screenwriter, university teacher, editor, critic, and publisher based in the United Kingdom. Background Swift was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and raised in Saint-La ...

, British-Canadian poet, university teacher, editor, critic, and publisher; grew up on Mortlake Avenue from the late '60s through the early '80s *

David Saint-Jacques David Saint-Jacques ( , ; born January 6, 1970) is a Canadian astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). He is also an astrophysicist, engineer, and a physician. In December 2018, he launched to the International Space Station, as Flig ...

, is a Canadian astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). He is also an astrophysicist, engineer, and a physician.

Partner cities

* Vernon,

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, Canada * Marblehead,

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La Flèche La Flèche () is a town and commune in the French department of Sarthe, in the Pays de la Loire region in the Loire Valley. It is the sub-prefecture of the South-Sarthe, the chief district and the chief city of a canton, and the second most popu ...

Pays de la Loire Pays de la Loire (; ; br, Broioù al Liger) is one of the 18 regions of France, in the west of the mainland. It was created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital, Nantes, one of a handful of "balancing metropolises" (). ...

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

References

External links

Official website

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