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Pierrefonds-Roxboro
Pierrefonds-Roxboro () is a borough of the city of Montreal. It was created January 1, 2006, following the demerger of parts of the city. Geography It is composed of the former municipalities of Pierrefonds and Roxboro, spanning the northern part of the West Island. Besides its land borders with the borough of L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève, as well as the boroughs of Saint-Laurent and Ahuntsic-Cartierville to the east, it borders the municipalities of Senneville, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Kirkland, and Dollard-des-Ormeaux. The borough has an area of 27.1 km2 (10½ sq. mi.) and a population of 69,297. Pierrefonds has the largest nature park in the City of Montreal, the Cap-Saint-Jacques Nature Park. It is also home to several English elementary schools (St. Anthony School, St. Charles School, Greendale, Terry Fox School, Kingsdale Academy) as well as the public English high school, Pierrefonds Community High School. There are also three French private schools, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierrefonds, Quebec
Pierrefonds () is a former city in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is located along the Rivière des Prairies on the western shore of the southern part of the Island of Montreal (part of what is colloquially called the West Island). It was merged into Montreal on January 1, 2002, and is today part of the borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro. History Its origin dates back to the eighteenth century, and is intimately linked to that of Sainte-Geneviève, Quebec, Sainte-Geneviève, which was composed at the time of Pierrefonds, L'Île-Bizard, Quebec, L'Île-Bizard, Sainte-Geneviève, Quebec, Sainte-Geneviève, Roxboro, Quebec, Roxboro and Dollard-des-Ormeaux. In 1904, following several previous divisions, the Town of Sainte-Geneviève was split into two new villages: Sainte-Geneviève and Sainte-Geneviève de Pierrefonds. This was the first appearance of the name Pierrefonds. At the heart of the conflict leading to the separation was the notary and local member of the Legislative Assem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Island
The West Island (, ) is the unofficial name given to the city, towns and boroughs at the western end of the Island of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada. It is generally considered to consist of the Lakeshore municipalities of Lachine (specifically the Western Lachine area, also known as Dixie and later Summerlea), Dorval, Pointe-Claire, and Beaconsfield, the municipalities of Kirkland, Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Baie-D'Urfé, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, the village of Senneville, and two North Shore boroughs of the city of Montreal: Pierrefonds-Roxboro and L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève. Historically, there was a linguistic division of the island of Montreal into French and English 'halves', with Francophones typically inhabiting the eastern portion of the island and Anglophones typically inhabiting the western half. The West Island's population is approximately 238,000 and although the overwhelming majority of its residents are today bilingual if not multi-lingual (given the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ensemble Montréal
Ensemble Montréal is a municipal political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its elected officials are present in many districts in Montreal and represent the boroughs of Montréal-Nord (mayor, Christine Black), Saint-Léonard (mayor, Michel Bissonnet), Saint-Laurent (mayor, Alan DeSousa) and Pierrefonds-Roxboro (mayor, Dimitrios (Jim) Beis). Since November 16, 2021, Aref Salem is the interim leader and the 23 elected officials who sit on the Montreal City Council form the Official Opposition. The party held power from 2013 until 2017 during the administration of Denis Coderre, at the time known as Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal. Following Coderre's defeat to Projet Montréal's Valérie Plante in the 2017 election, Coderre left municipal politics, and the candidates that had been elected under the party's banner changed its name to Ensemble Montréal. He returned in the 2021 election but resigned following his mayoral defeat. MP Soraya Martinez Ferrada was elected lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roxboro, Quebec
Roxboro () was a city on the Island of Montreal. It was founded in 1914, and ceased to exist on 1 January 2002 as a result of municipal reorganization in Quebec. The town was located along the Rivière des Prairies. At the time of the merger with Montreal, its population was 6,000. Geography The area north of the train tracks was subject to many floods. Roxboro Island In 1974 the town of Roxboro decided to purchase the island (Lot 311) at the North end of 5th Avenue North and paid $46,130.36 to the former owner in a court expropriation decision . Archives de Montréal has an aerial photo of the island from the year 1947. It is one of islands in the Hochelaga Archipelago. The Federal and Provincial government named the island on 12 April 1991. The island has a bridge, lighting for night and garbage disposal. Roxboro Woods There is a section of land named "Boisé de Roxboro" designated 22 August 2001 as protected woodland. The Quebec and Federal governments do not actively p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boroughs Of Montreal
The city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada is divided into 19 boroughs (in French language, French, ''arrondissements''), each with a mayor and council. Powers The borough council is responsible for: *Fire prevention *Removal of household waste and residual materials *Funding of community *Social and local economic development agencies *Planning and management of parks and recreational facilities *Cultural and sports facilities, organization of recreational sports and sociocultural activities *Maintaining local roads *Issuing permits *Public consultations for amendments to city planning bylaws *Public consultations and dissemination of information to the public *Land-use planning and borough development. List of Montreal boroughs List of former boroughs Map See also * List of neighbourhoods in Montreal * History of Montreal * 2000–2006 municipal reorganization in Quebec References External links Official portal of Montréal {{Montreal Boroughs of Montreal, Former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelligan (electoral District)
Nelligan is a provincial electoral district in the Montreal (region), Montreal region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It comprises most of the Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough and all of the L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève borough of Montreal, and the city of Kirkland, Quebec, Kirkland. It was created for the 1981 Quebec general election, 1981 election from parts of Pointe-Claire (provincial electoral district), Pointe-Claire and Robert-Baldwin (provincial electoral district), Robert-Baldwin electoral districts. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Senneville, Quebec, Senneville to the Jacques-Cartier (provincial electoral district), Jacques-Cartier electoral district but gained from it the part of Kirkland that it did not already have. It also lost a small part of Pierrefonds-Roxboro to the Robert-Baldwin (provincial electoral district), Robert-Baldwin electoral district. It was named after the noted Quebec poet � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève
L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève () is a Boroughs of Montreal, borough (''arrondissement'') of the city of Montreal. History On 24 October 1678, the government of Louis de Buade de Frontenac granted Île Bizard, then named Île Bonaventure as a seigniory to Jacques Bizard. This was the first concession on the West Island of Montreal. The village of Sainte-Geneviève, Quebec, Sainte-Geneviève was born in the early eighteenth century. Antoine Faucon, father of Saint-Sulpice, participated in the construction of the first church in the village's history. The Municipality of the Village of Sainte-Geneviève was created in 1859. During the first half of the twentieth century, farmers in Île Bizard and Sainte-Geneviève were then oriented toward gardening. The territory was thus transformed into a garden of Montreal. In 1959, it was incorporated as Ville Sainte-Geneviève. From the late 1950s, the creation of two major golf courses opened the door to massive sales of land and the aba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert-Baldwin
Robert-Baldwin is a provincial electoral district in the Montreal region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It includes a portion of the Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough of Montreal as well as the city of Dollard-des-Ormeaux. It was created for the 1966 election from a part of Jacques-Cartier. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it gained a small additional part of Pierrefonds-Roxboro from the Nelligan electoral district. It was named after former Prime Minister of the United Province of Canada, Robert Baldwin. Linguistic demographics *Anglophone: 38.9% *Allophone: 39.0% *Francophone: 22.1 Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly Election results * Result compared to Action démocratique , - , - , New Democratic Party of Quebec (1963), New Democratic , René Boulard , align="right", 1,068 , ... [...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] |
Saint-Laurent, Quebec
Saint-Laurent () is a Montreal borough, borough of the city of Montreal, Canada, located in the northern part of the Island of Montreal, island. Although it is no longer an independent city, it is still commonly known as Ville Saint-Laurent (''City of Saint-Laurent'') or by its initials, ''VSL''. Saint-Laurent is the largest of Montreal's boroughs by land area. Its population was 98,828 inhabitants in 2016. History The history of Saint-Laurent begins in the end of the 17th century with the settling of the lands given by Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, Maisonneuve, first governor of Montreal, then by the Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice, Sulpicians, lords of Montreal's island, to Jean Descarie. His three sons were the first to settle on the lands of Cote Saint-Laurent in 1687. After the signing of the Great Peace of Montreal in 1701, 19 other settlers joined them and built a chapel the next year. The Parish of Saint-Laurent On September 20, 1720, Saint-Laurent w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lac-Saint-Louis
Lac-Saint-Louis () is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, which has been represented in the House of Commons since 1997. It is on the southwestern tip of the Island of Montreal, encompassing a small part of the city of Montreal. Its population was 108,579 at the 2016 Canadian census. Since 2004, its Member of Parliament (MP) has been Francis Scarpaleggia of the Liberal Party. Geography The district includes the cities of Beaconsfield, and Pointe-Claire; the towns of Baie-d'Urfé, Kirkland and Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue; the municipality of Senneville; and the western part of the borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro of the city of Montreal. The neighbouring ridings are Pierrefonds—Dollard, Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle and Vaudreuil. History The electoral district was created in 1996 from Lachine—Lac-Saint-Louis and Vaudreuil ridings. This riding was largely untouched by the 2012 electoral redistribution, gaining a small territory from Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierrefonds—Dollard
Pierrefonds—Dollard () is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1988. Its population was 108,587 at the 2016 Canadian Census. This riding occupies the northwest part of the Island of Montreal on Lac des Deux-Montagnes and Rivière des Prairies. It contains the cities of Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Pierrefonds, Roxboro and L'Île-Bizard. This riding is home to a number of pharmaceutical companies. Manufacturing is the main industry, followed by retail trade. Over 17% of the population has a university degree, while just over 4% has less than a Grade 9 education. The average family income is $75,497 with an unemployment rate of 6.5%. According to the 2001 Canadian census, 37% of the population lists English as their mother tongue, while French is the first language for 32%. The total immigrant population is almost 30%. Geography The district includes the Montreal borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro, L'Île-Bizar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
