Mont-Saint-Hilaire
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 Mont-Saint-Hilaire as seen from Belœil |
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| Province : | Quebec | ||
| Administrative region : | Montérégie | ||
| MRC or equivalent : | La Vallée-du-Richelieu | ||
| Coordinates : | 45 ° 34 ′ N , 73 ° 11 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 20 m | ||
| Area : | 44.29 km² | ||
| Residents : | 18,200 (as of 2011) | ||
| Population density : | 410.9 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern Time ( UTC − 5 ) | ||
| Municipality number: | 57035 | ||
| Postal code : | J3H | ||
| Area code : | +1 450 | ||
| Mayor : | Yves Corriveau | ||
| Website : | www.ville.mont-saint-hilaire.qc.ca | ||
 Located in the MRC La Vallée-du-Richelieu |
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Mont-Saint-Hilaire is a city in the southwest of the Canadian province of Québec . It is located in the administrative region of Montérégie , about 30 kilometers east of Montreal . Mont-Saint-Hilaire belongs to the regional county municipality (municipalité régionale du comté) La Vallée-du-Richelieu , has an area of 44.29 km² and has 18,200 inhabitants (2011).
geography
Mont-Saint-Hilaire is located in the Rive-Sud region , on the right bank of the Rivière Richelieu . This tributary of the St. Lawrence River also forms the western city limits. The outstanding topographical feature is the 414 meter high Mont Saint-Hilaire , which is part of the Montérégie hills . It projects almost 400 meters from the surrounding plane, forms a highly visible landmark and is a biosphere reserve of UNESCO . The mountain has several peaks that are grouped around a central lake, Lac Hertel. Mont-Saint-Hilaire has grown together with Belœil , McMasterville and Otterburn Park to form an agglomeration with over fifty thousand inhabitants.
Neighboring municipalities are Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu in the north, Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in the northeast, Saint-Jean-Baptiste in the southeast, Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu in the south, Otterburn Park in the southwest, Belœil in the west and Saint-Marc -sur-Richelieu in the north-west.
history
The officer Joseph-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville was awarded the Seigneurie Rouville in 1694 , but the first farmer did not settle down until 1731. Around 1745 a small village emerged on the mountain flank, where the stream that rises in the higher Lac Hertel drove several mills. However, most of the colonists preferred land near the river, so the original settlement was abandoned towards the end of the 19th century. The parish of Saint-Hilaire, named after Saint Hilary of Poitiers , was founded in 1795. In December 1848, the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad (later Grand Trunk Railway ) put the Montreal to Saint-Hyacinthe railway into operation, the first section of the Montreal – Island Pond railway . One year after the Seigneurie was dissolved, the municipality of Mont-Saint-Hilaire was founded in 1855. This was given a direct road connection to Montreal in 1941 and city status in 1963. Since 2000, the city has been a member of the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal association .
population
According to the 2011 census, Mont-Saint-Hilaire had 18,200 inhabitants, which corresponds to a population density of 410.9 inh / km². 94.0% of the population stated French as their main language, the share of English was 3.1%. 0.7% said they were bilingual (French and English), other languages and multiple answers accounted for 2.2%. Only French spoke 45.7%. In 2001, 90.1% of the population were Roman Catholic , 3.3% Protestant and 5.3% of no religion.
traffic
Route 116 runs through Mont-Saint-Hilaire in a west-east direction from Montreal to Lévis , one of the most important national highways in the province. The Autoroute 40 , the highway between the two cities, runs about five kilometers to the north. Route 133 crosses these two traffic axes between Sorel-Tracy and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu . Mont-Saint-Hilaire is the terminus of an AMT suburban railway line to Montreal. In addition, several bus routes run by the CIT de la Vallée du Richelieu company connect the city with the surrounding communities, Montreal, Longueuil and Saint-Hyacinthe .
Personalities
- Laurent Duvernay-Tardif (born 1991), football player
- Paul-Émile Borduas (1905–1960), painter
- Ozias Leduc (1864–1955), painter
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Mont-Saint-Hilaire. Commission de toponymie du Québec, accessed January 18, 2014 (French).
- ↑ Une petite histoire de Mont-Saint-Hilaire. Société d'histoire de Belœil-Mont-Saint-Hilaire, 2009, accessed January 18, 2014 (French).
- ↑ Population profile of the municipality of Mont-Saint-Hilaire. In: 2011 Census. Statistics Canada , 2011, accessed January 20, 2014 (French).
- ↑ Population profile of the municipality of Mont-Saint-Hilaire. In: 2001 Census. Statistics Canada , 2001, accessed January 20, 2014 (French).