Pont-Viau, Quebec is a district in the southern part of

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 C ...

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tota ...

. It was a town before August 6, 1965. It was named after

Viau Bridge The Viau Bridge (officially in french: Pont Viau; formerly called the Ahuntsic Bridge, french: Pont Ahuntsic) was built in 1930, rebuilt in 1962 and widened in 1993. The bridge spans the Rivière des Prairies between the Montreal borough of Ah ...

, which links it to

Ahuntsic-Cartierville Ahuntsic-Cartierville ( (local accent)) is a borough ('' arrondissement'') of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The borough was created following the 2002 municipal reorganization of Montreal. It comprises two main neighbourhoods, Ahuntsi ...

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple- ...

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Government of Canada, Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is ...

Geography

It is deliminated by the

Rivière des Prairies The Rivière des Prairies (; ), called the Back River in English, is a delta channel of the Ottawa River in southwestern Quebec, Canada. The Kanien'kehá:ka called it ''Skowanoti'', meaning "River behind the island". The river separates the citi ...

to the south, by Duvernay to the east, by Vimont to the north and by

Laval-des-Rapides Laval-des-Rapides is a district in Laval, Quebec, Canada. It was a separate city until the municipal mergers on August 6, 1965. Geography The neighbourhood is delimited on the north, north-west and west by Chomedey, on the east and north-eas ...

to the west.

Education

Commission scolaire de Laval The Centre de services scolaire de Laval (CSSDL) is a French-language school service centre in the Canadian province of Quebec. It is headquartered in Laval. As of 2011, the board of the predecessor, ''Commission scolaire de Laval'', managed fifty ...

operates French-language public schools. * École primaire Saint-Gilles * École primaire Saint-JulienSaint-Julien
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. Retrieved on September 24, 2017.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board The Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board (SWLSB, french: Commission scolaire Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier, CSSWL) is a school board headquartered in Rosemère, Quebec in Greater Montreal. It officially came into existence in July 1998 when English-language sc ...

operates English-language public schools. All sections of Laval are zoned to Laval Junior Academy and

Laval Senior Academy Laval Senior Academy (LSA) is an English-language senior high school in located in Laval, Québec. It is operated by the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board The Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board (SWLSB, french: Commission scolaire Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier, ...

References

External links

City of Laval, official website
Neighbourhoods in Laval, Quebec Former municipalities in Quebec Populated places disestablished in 1965 Canada geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Quebec-geo-stub