Anjou (Montreal)

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Anjou
Location of Anjou in Montreal
city Montreal
surface 13.7 km²
Residents 41,928  (2011)
native language French : 76.3%
English : 7.9%
Others: 15.8%
Community number REM09
Website Arrondissement

Anjou is one of the 19 arrondissements of the city of Montreal in the Canadian province of Quebec . Before 2002 it was a separate municipality. In 2011 the 13.7 km² district had 41,928 inhabitants.

geography

Anjou is located in the north of the Île de Montréal . Neighboring arrondissements of the city of Montreal are Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in the east, Saint-Léonard in the south, Montréal-North in the west and Rivière-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles in the northwest. Anjou borders in the northeast on the independent municipality of Montréal-Est . The district is characterized by two motorways that cross here, Autoroute 25 and Autoroute 40 . Due to the favorable traffic situation, numerous industrial and commercial enterprises have settled here.

history

In 1886 the Saint-Léonard-de-Port-Maurice district was founded . In 1915 the southern part split off and formed a city whose area today corresponds to the arrondissement of Saint-Léonard. The northern remaining area remained a rural district. In the 1950s, the area got sucked into the rapidly growing agglomeration. In 1956 the district became a municipality with town status. Associated with this was a renaming to Anjou. The name is reminiscent of the historic province of Anjou in western France , where many of the colonists in New France came from. The construction of the motorway resulted in a significant development boost; In the 1960s alone, the population more than tripled.

On January 1, 2002, Anjou merged with Montreal and has since formed an arrondissement. A referendum was held against the merger ordered by the provincial government. Although a majority voted in favor of detachment on June 20, 2004, the required quorum (approval of 35% of all voters) was not achieved.

population

According to the 2011 census, Anjou had 41,928 inhabitants, which corresponds to a population density of 3060 inhabitants / km². Of those surveyed, 76.3% said French and 7.9% said English as their mother tongue. Other important languages ​​include Spanish (3.6%), Arabic (2.1%), Italian (1.7%), Romanian (1.7%), Haitian (1.3%) and Vietnamese (1, 3%).

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Anjou  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Anjou. Commission de toponymie Québec, accessed September 2, 2011 (French).
  2. Référendums du 20 juin 2004. Directeur général des élections du Québec, accessed on September 2, 2011 (French).
  3. Annuaire statistique de l'agglomération de Montréal, recensement de 2011. (PDF, 728 kB) City Council of Montreal, Statistics Canada, 2011, accessed on February 25, 2014 (French, Statistical Yearbook of the Agglomeration of Montreal 2011).

Coordinates: 45 ° 36 ′ 19 ″  N , 73 ° 33 ′ 12 ″  W.