Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue

Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue
	; Main street of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue
Location in Quebec
	Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue
	Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue
State :	Canada
Province :	Quebec
Administrative region :	Montreal
Coordinates :	45 ° 24 ′ N , 73 ° 57 ′ W Coordinates: 45 ° 24 ′ N , 73 ° 57 ′ W
Height :	26 m
Area :	10.57 km²
Residents :	5073 (status: 2006)
Population density :	479.9 inhabitants / km²
Time zone :	Eastern Time ( UTC − 5 )
Municipality number:	66117
Postal code :	H9X
Area code :	+1 514
Mayor :	Francis Deroo
Website :	www.ville.sainte-anne-de-bellevue.qc.ca
	; Location of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue in the Montreal agglomeration

Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue is a city in the southwest of the Canadian province of Québec . It is located on the Île de Montréal west of Montreal . The city has an area of 10.57 km² and has 5073 inhabitants (2011).

geography

Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue is located in the west of the Île de Montréal ( West Iceland region ) directly opposite the Île Perrot , on a short arm of the Ottawa river between the lakes Lac des Deux Montagnes and Lac Saint-Louis . The community borders on Senneville to the west, the Montreal borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro to the north, Kirkland and Beaconsfield to the northeast, and Baie-D'Urfé to the east . McGill University's Agriculture Faculty campus takes up over half of the community area. Downtown Montreal is around 31 kilometers away.

history

Galipeault Bridge (1948)

In 1677, French Sulpizian monks set up the Saint-Louis-du-Bout-de-l'Île mission station on the western tip of the island to convert the Algonquin . Due to repeated attacks by the Iroquois , it had to be relocated to a more defensible place near Senneville in 1703. In 1712 Pastor René-Charles de Breslay suffered a riding accident in a snowstorm and is said to have been saved by an apparition of Saint Anne . A little later, the Sainte-Anne church was built on this site and a settlement was created. In 1878 the municipality was founded, which received city rights in 1895. The opening of the Grand Trunk Railway (1855) and the construction of the Macdonald Campus of McGill University (1905-1907), a veterans hospital (1917) and John Abbott College (1971) led to accelerated growth. Since 1843 the rapids between the two lakes have been overcome with a lock .

On January 1, 2002, 27 parishes on the island were merged with Montreal. Resistance arose especially in communities with a high proportion of English speakers, as this measure had been ordered by the provincial government of the separatist Parti Québécois . From 2003, the Parti libéral du Québec provided the government and promised to reverse the merger of the municipalities. On July 20, 2004, referendums were held in 22 former municipalities. In Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, 82.3% of voters were in favor of the separation. The community was re-established on January 1, 2006, but had to cede numerous competencies to the community association.

population

According to the 2011 census, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue had 5,073 inhabitants, which corresponds to a population density of 479.9 inh / km². 41.6% of the population stated English as their main language, while French accounted for 37.6%. 2.6% said they were bilingual (French and English), other languages and multiple answers accounted for 18.2% (including 2.5% Italian , 1.8% Spanish and 1.2% each German and Polish ). Only English spoke 15.8%, only French 6.9%. In 2001, 61.7% of the population were Roman Catholic , 16.5% Protestant , 3.3% Muslim and 14.1% without religious affiliation.

traffic

Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue is on Autoroute 20 , the freeway that runs between Montreal and Toronto . This crosses the river on the Pont Galipeault, opened in 1925, to the Île Perrot . A little further north, Autoroute 40 runs towards Ottawa . The junction for local public transport is the station on the main Montreal – Toronto railway line; AMT local trains run from the Montreal train station Lucien-L'Allier to Vaudreuil-Dorion . Several bus lines from the Société de transport de Montréal provide connections with neighboring communities.