Lachine

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Lachine
Location of Lachine in Montreal
city Montreal
surface 17.7 km²
Residents 41,616  (2011)
native language French : 58.2%
English : 23.7%
Others: 18.1%
Community number REM27
Website Arrondissement

Lachine [ la.ʃin ] is one of 19 arrondissements of the city of Montreal in the Canadian province of Quebec . Before 2002 it was a separate municipality. In 2011 the 17.7 km² district had 41,616 inhabitants.

geography

Lachine is located in the south-western part of the Île de Montréal , at the starting point of the Lachine Canal . This was built to bypass the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence River .

Independent neighboring communities are Dorval in the west, Côte-Saint-Luc in the north and Montréal-Ouest in the northeast. Neighboring arrondissements of the city of Montreal are Saint-Laurent in the northwest, Le Sud-Ouest in the east and La Salle in the southeast. The southern limit is the Lac Saint-Louis , part of the St. Lawrence River.

history

Fur Trade Museum

Jacques Cartier was the first European to see the rapids in 1535. Samuel de Champlain reached it in 1603. On another trip, Champlain described the rapids in detail in 1611.

René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle received in 1667 from Sulpizianerorden the manorial Côte-Saint-Sulpice awarded. The first French colonists settled here in 1669 and established a settlement. Under the impression of reports of a large river system that would supposedly flow into the Pacific and thus open a connection to Asia , La Salle sold his property and set off on a voyage of discovery. The place therefore received the derisive name of la Chine (China).

In 1689, at the beginning of the King William's War, the Lachine massacre occurred . In May of that year France and England declared war on one another. English colonists in New York convinced the Mohawk , allied with them, to attack the mostly unfortified French settlements. In the early hours of August 5, 1,500 mohawks attacked Lachine. Several dozen of the 375 inhabitants were killed or abducted, and almost all of the houses burned down.

Factories on the Lachine Canal, ca.1875

From 1805 a street linked Lachine with Montreal. In 1825, the Lachine Canal was opened, which enabled a direct connection between Lac Saint-Louis and the port of Montreal , bypassing the rapids. This also removed the main obstacle for cargo ships between the Atlantic and the Great Lakes . As a result, numerous industrial companies settled there. Lachine was connected to the railway network in 1847 and was given the status of an independent municipality; the manor was dissolved seven years later. In 1872 the community received city rights.

The replacement of the Lachine Canal by the St. Lawrence Seaway , opened in 1959 and running further south, resulted in a gradual decline in industry. In 2002 the canal was reopened for tourist use. The municipality of Saint-Pierre, a small enclave , merged with Lachine in 2000. In 2002 Lachine merged with Montreal and has since formed an arrondissement.

population

According to the 2011 census, Lachine had 41,616 inhabitants, which corresponds to a population density of 2351 inhabitants / km². Of the respondents, 58.2% said French and 23.7% said English as their mother tongue. Other important languages ​​include Spanish (2.4%), Italian (2.1%) and Chinese (1.5%).

Attractions

Saints-Anges Gardiens church

Personalities

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Otto Meissner : Scouts at St. Lorenzstrom. The adventures of Samuel de Champlain . Cotta Stuttgart 1966, p. 50.
  2. ↑ Hans-Otto Meissner: Scouts at St. Lorenzstrom . Cotta Stuttgart 1966, p. 148.
  3. ↑ Lachine. Commission de toponymie Québec, accessed June 15, 2011 (French).
  4. ↑ 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 ° 26 ′ 31 ″  N , 73 ° 41 ′ 33 ″  W.