Dollard-Des Ormeaux
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| Province : | Quebec | ||
| Administrative region : | Montreal | ||
| Coordinates : | 45 ° 30 ′ N , 73 ° 49 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 32 m | ||
| Area : | 15.1 km² | ||
| Residents : | 49,637 (as of 2006) | ||
| Population density : | 3,287.2 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern Time ( UTC − 5 ) | ||
| Municipality number: | 66142 | ||
| Postal code : | H9J | ||
| Area code : | +1 541 | ||
| Mayor : | Edward Janiszewski | ||
| Website : | www.ville.ddo.qc.ca | ||
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Dollard-Des Ormeaux is a city in the southwest of the Canadian province of Quebec . It is located on the Île de Montréal west of Montreal . The city has an area of 15.10 km² and has 49,637 inhabitants (2011).
geography
Dollard-Des Ormeaux is located in the west of the Île de Montréal, in the West Iceland region . The community is bordered to the north by the Montreal borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro , to the southwest by Kirkland , to the south by Beaconsfield and to the southeast by Dorval . Downtown Montreal is around 18 kilometers away.
history
The current municipality originally belonged to the municipality of Sainte-Geneviève , which was founded in 1741 and which has been reduced in size several times over the decades. The Dollard-Des Ormeaux community was founded in 1924. It is named after the French soldier Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, who was killed in an attack on advancing Iroquois in 1660 west of the city of Montreal . Like other communities in the west of the island, Dollard has always had an above-average proportion of English-speaking residents. In 1960 the community was elevated to a city. On the occasion of the centenary of the Canadian Confederation in 1967, a 48-hectare landscape park, the Centennial Park / Parc du Centenaire, was created .
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 Dollard-Des Ormeaux, 85.2% of the electorate voted in favor of the separation, although the required quorum of 35% of all eligible voters was only slightly exceeded. 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, Dollard-Des Ormeaux had 49,637 inhabitants, which corresponds to a population density of 3,287.2 inh / km². 41.3% of the population stated English as their main language, while French accounted for 16.1%. 1.6% said they were bilingual (French and English), other languages and multiple answers accounted for 41.0%. The most important non-official major languages included Arabic (6.0%), Italian (3.0%), Greek (2.7%), Chinese (2.1%), Spanish (2.4%) and Punjabi (2, 2%). Only English spoke 25.5%, only French 5.0%. In 2001, 39.3% of the population were Roman Catholic , 21.1% Jewish , 12.7% Protestant , 7.9% Orthodox , 5.5% Muslim and 5.9% non-denominational.
traffic
Autoroute 40 , the highway between Montreal and Ottawa, runs just outside the southern city limits . Important cross connections are the Boulevard Saint-Jean and the Boulevard des Sources between Kirkland and Pierrefonds-Roxboro . Sunnybrooke station is located on the north-eastern city limits on the AMT suburban line from Montreal Central Station to Deux-Montagnes . Several bus lines from the Société de transport de Montréal provide connections with neighboring communities.
Web links
- Official website of Dollard-Des Ormeaux
- Dollard-Des Ormeaux ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dollard-Des Ormeaux. Commission de toponymie Québec, accessed August 17, 2011 (French).
- ↑ Référendums du 20 juin 2004. Directeur général des élections du Québec, accessed on August 17, 2011 (French).
- ↑ Population profile of the community of Dollard-Des Ormeaux. In: 2011 Census. Statistics Canada , 2011, accessed January 5, 2014 (French).
- ↑ Population profile of the community of Dollard-Des Ormeaux. In: 2001 Census. Statistics Canada , 2001, accessed January 5, 2014 (French).