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Laval, Quebec
Laval is a city in Quebec, Canada. It is in the southwest of the province, north of Montreal. It is the largest suburb of Montreal, the third-largest city in the province after Montreal and Quebec City, and the thirteenth largest city in Canada, with a population of 443,192 in 2021. Laval is geographically separated from the mainland to the north by the Rivière des Mille Îles, and from the Island of Montreal to the south by the Rivière des Prairies. Laval occupies all of Île Jésus as well as the Îles Laval. Laval constitutes one of the 17 administrative regions of Quebec, with a region code of 13, as well as a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and census division (CD) with geographical code 65. It also constitutes the judicial district of Laval. It is the smallest administrative region in the province by area. History The first European Settlers in Laval were Jesuits, who were granted a seigneury there in 1636. Agriculture first appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities In Quebec
This is the list of municipalities that have the Classification of municipalities in Quebec, Quebec municipality type of city (Quebec), city (''ville'', code=V), an Administrative divisions of Quebec, administrative division defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy (Quebec), Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy. Although the terms "city" and "town" are both used in the category name because of common English usage, Quebec does not contain any City (Quebec), cities under the current law; this list thus includes all ''villes'', regardless of whether they are referred to as cities or towns in English. List File:Montreal skyline 2011.jpg, Montreal is Quebec's largest city and Canada's second largest city. File:Québec-City-Skyline.jpg, Quebec City is Quebec's capital and second largest city. File:Laval City Hall (edited).jpg, Laval, Quebec, Laval townhall File:Gatineau (view from the Peace Tower of Parliament Centre Block).JPG, Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabre (provincial Electoral District)
Fabre or Fabré is a surname of Occitan French origin, and a given name. Notable people with the name include: * André Fabre (born 1945), French horse racing trainer * Cándido Fabré, Cuban musician, songwriter and singer * Catherine Fabre, French politician * Cindy Fabre (born 1985), Miss France for 2005 * Dominique Fabre (novelist) (1929–2010), Swiss detective novelist and screenwriter * Dominique Fabre (b. 1960), French novelist * Édouard Fabre (1885–1939), Canadian runner * Édouard-Charles Fabre (1827–1896), archbishop of Montreal * Fabre d'Églantine (1750–1794), French dramatist and revolutionary * Fabre d'Olivet (1767–1825), French author, poet, and composer * François-Xavier Fabre (1766–1837), French painter of historical subjects * Georges Fabre (1844–1911), French forestry engineer * Giuseppe Fabre (1910–2007), Italian lieutenant general and skier * Hector Fabre (1834–1910), Canadian politician and diplomat * Henri Fabre (1882–1984), F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Towns In Quebec
This is the list of municipalities that have the Classification of municipalities in Quebec, Quebec municipality type of city (Quebec), city (''ville'', code=V), an Administrative divisions of Quebec, administrative division defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy (Quebec), Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy. Although the terms "city" and "town" are both used in the category name because of common English usage, Quebec does not contain any City (Quebec), cities under the current law; this list thus includes all ''villes'', regardless of whether they are referred to as cities or towns in English. List File:Montreal skyline 2011.jpg, Montreal is Quebec's largest city and Canada's second largest city. File:Québec-City-Skyline.jpg, Quebec City is Quebec's capital and second largest city. File:Laval City Hall (edited).jpg, Laval, Quebec, Laval townhall File:Gatineau (view from the Peace Tower of Parliament Centre Block).JPG, Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Montreal
Greater Montreal (, ) is the most populous metropolitan area in Quebec and the second most populous in Canada after Greater Toronto. In 2015, Statistics Canada identified Montreal's Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) as with a population of 4,027,100, almost half that of the province. A smaller area of is governed by the Montreal Metropolitan Community (MMC; , CMM). This level of government is headed by a president (currently Montreal mayor Valérie Plante). The inner ring is composed of densely populated municipalities located in close proximity to Downtown Montreal. It includes the entire Island of Montreal, Laval, and the Urban Agglomeration of Longueuil. Due to their proximity to Montreal's downtown core, some additional suburbs on the South Shore ( Brossard, Saint-Lambert, and Boucherville) are usually included in the inner ring, despite their location on the mainland. The outer ring is composed of low-density municipalities located on the fringe of Metropolitan Mont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cities by population, ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital, Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census geographic units of Canada#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Area Codes 450 And 579
Area codes 450, 579, and 354 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan in the Canadian province of Quebec, encompassing the off-island suburbs of Montreal, as well as the rest of the Montérégie region southward to the border with New York (state), New York state. Among the cities in the numbering plan area are Laval, Quebec, Laval, Longueuil, Terrebonne, Quebec, Terrebonne, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Brossard, Repentigny, Quebec, Repentigny, Saint-Jérôme, Granby, Quebec, Granby, Blainville, Quebec, Blainville and Saint-Hyacinthe. Area code 450 is also shared by several small communities in an adjacent part of Ontario: some landline customers in Chute-à-Blondeau, Ontario, Chute-à-Blondeau (East Hawkesbury, Ontario, East Hawkesbury), near Pointe-Fortune, Quebec, Pointe-Fortune use numbers from the Rigaud, Quebec, Rigaud exchange 451. History Area code 514 served the entire Montreal area for over half-a-century. However, by the mid-1990s, it was on the ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of H Postal Codes Of Canada
__NOTOC__ This is a list of postal codes in Canada where the first letter is H. Postal codes beginning with H are located within the Canadian province of Quebec, except for H0H. Only the first three characters are listed, corresponding to the Forward Sortation Area (FSA). Canada Post provides a free postal code look-up tool on its website, via its mobile apps for such smartphones as the iPhone and BlackBerry, and sells hard-copy directories and CD-ROMs. Many vendors also sell validation tools, which allow customers to properly match addresses and postal codes. Hard-copy directories can also be consulted in all post offices, and some libraries. Montreal, Laval, and Akwesasne There are currently 123 FSAs in this list. No postal codes yet exist that start with H6*. H0M is an arbitrary FSA assignment, over 100 km from the centre of Montreal, as is H0H (representing the North Pole The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Postal Code
A Canadian postal code () is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. Like British, Irish, Dutch, and Argentinian postcodes, Canada's postal codes are alphanumeric. They are in the format ''A1A 1A1'', where ''A'' is a letter and ''1'' is a digit, with a space separating the third and fourth characters. As of October 2019, there were 876,445 postal codes, using ''forward sortation areas'' (FSAs), from A0A in Newfoundland to Y1A in Yukon. Canada Post provides a postal code look-up tool on its website and via its mobile application, and sells hard-copy directories and CD-ROMs. Many vendors also sell validation tools, which allow customers to properly match addresses and postal codes. Hard-copy directories can also be consulted in all post offices, and some libraries. In writing out the postal address for a location within Canada, the postal code follows the abbreviation for the province or territory. History City postal zones Numbered post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Daylight Time
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico. * Eastern Standard Time (EST) is five hours behind Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC−05:00). Observed during standard time (late autumn/winter in the United States and Canada). * Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) is four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC−04:00). Observed during daylight saving time (spring/summer/early autumn in the United States and Canada). On the second Sunday in March, at 2:00 a.m. EST, clocks are advanced to 3:00 a.m. EDT, creating a 23-hour day. On the first Sunday in November, at 2:00 a.m. EDT, clocks are moved back to 1:00 a.m. EST, which results in a 25-hour day. History The boundaries of the Eastern Time Zone have moved westward since the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) took over time-zone management from railroads in 1938 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 U.S. states, states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico. * Eastern Standard Time (EST) is five hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−05:00). Observed during standard time (late autumn/winter in the United States and Canada). * Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) is four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−04:00). Observed during daylight saving time (spring/summer/early autumn in the United States and Canada). On the second Sunday in March, at 2:00 a.m. EST, clocks are advanced to 3:00 a.m. EDT, creating a 23-hour day. On the first Sunday in November, at 2:00 a.m. EDT, clocks are moved back to 1:00 a.m. EST, which results in a 25-hour day. History The boundaries of the Eastern Time Zone have moved westward since the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) took over time-zone management from railroads in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada 2021 Census
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canada, Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is slightly lower than the response rate for the 2016 census. It recorded a population of 36,991,981, a 5.2% increase from 2016. It will be succeeded by 2026 Canadian census, Canada's 2026 census. Planning Consultation on census program content was from September 11 to December 8, 2017. The census was conducted by Statistics Canada, and was contactless as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. The agency had considered delaying the census until 2022. About 900 supervisors and 31,000 field enumerators were hired to conduct the door-to-door survey of individuals and households who had not completed the census questionnaire by late May or early June. Canvassing agents wore masks and maintained a physical distance to comply with COV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vimont (provincial Electoral District)
Vimont () is a provincial electoral district in the Laval region of Quebec, Canada, that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It consists of part of the city of Laval. It was created for the 1981 election from parts of Fabre and Mille-Îles electoral districts. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost much of its territory to the newly created Sainte-Rose electoral district, but gained some territory to the east from Mille-Îles. Members of the National Assembly Election results 2014 Elections Quebec reference: ^ Change is from redistributed results. CAQ change is from ADQ. , - , Liberal , Vincent Auclair , align="right", 16,217 , align="right", 47.78 , align="right", +11.81 , - , - , - , Liberal , Vincent Auclair , align="right", 14,936 , align="right", 35.97 , align="right", -10.34 , - , - , - * Increase is from UFP , - , Liberal , Vincent Auclair , align="rig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
