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Joliette
Joliette is a city in southwest Quebec, Canada. It is approximately northeast of Montreal, on the L'Assomption River and is the seat of the Regional County Municipality of Joliette. It is considered to be a part of the North Shore of Greater Montreal. The city is home to the Joliette Art Museum, whose works of art include paintings, sculptures, paper artwork and a large collection of art from the French Middle Ages. Joliette has 3 Francophone high schools and 1 Anglophone high school, as well as the Joliette campus of the Cégep régional de Lanaudière. It was founded as L'Industrie by businessman Barthélemy Joliette in 1823 and was incorporated as a city in 1863. The city's economy is mainly in the manufacturing and service sectors. The largest gravel manufacturer in the area, Graybec, is located in Joliette and exploits a huge quarry just outside the city. Joliette is the seat of the judicial district of Joliette. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joliette (electoral District)
Joliette is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1935 and since 1968. Geography This electoral district, located northeast of Montreal in the Quebec region of Lanaudière, currently consists of: *the Regional County Municipality of Matawinie, including Communauté Atikamekw de Manawan indian reserve *the Regional County Municipality of Joliette. It is bounded by the: * electoral district of Repentigny and Berthier—Maskinongé and the Saint Lawrence River to the south * electoral district of Saint-Maurice—Champlain to the east and north * Lac Nemiscachingue and the electoral districts of Rivière-du-Nord, Montcalm and Laurentides—Labelle to the west History It was created by the British North America Act of 1867 which preserved existing electoral districts in Lower Canada. In 1933, Joliette became part of the new electoral district of Joliette—L'Assomption—Montcalm. It was cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joliette (provincial Electoral District)
Joliette is a provincial electoral district in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably includes the cities of Joliette and Saint-Charles-Borromée. It was created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada). Its final election was in 1970. It disappeared in the 1973 election and its successor electoral district was Joliette-Montcalm. However, Joliette-Montcalm disappeared in the 1981 election and Joliette was recreated from parts of Joliette-Montcalm and Berthier electoral districts. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare to Berthier electoral district but gained Sainte-Mélanie from that same electoral district. In the change from the 2011 to the 2017 electoral map, the riding will lose Saint-Jacques, Saint-Liguori and Sainte-Marie-Salomé to the riding of Rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notre-Dame-des-Prairies, Quebec
Notre-Dame-des-Prairies is a town in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Joliette Regional County Municipality. It is a suburb of Joliette, located along the eastern shores of the L'Assomption River. History In 1950, the Parish of Notre-Dame-des-Prairies was established. The name refers to the prairies or planes of the Saint-Lawrence Lowlands that characterize the landscape. In 1957, the municipality was formed by separating from the Parish Municipality of Saint-Charles-Borromée-du-Village-d'Industrie. In 2005, the municipality changed statutes and became the City of Notre-Dame-des-Prairies. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Notre-Dame-des-Prairies had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Population trend: * Population in 2016: 9273 (2011 to 2016 population change: 4.6%) * Population in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Paul, Quebec
Saint-Paul is a municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Joliette Regional County Municipality. History Saint-Paul was born in the northeast of the former Lordship of Lavaltrie. The first settlers, mainly from Saint-Pierre-du-Portage (L’Assomption) and Saint-Sulpice, cleared the territory gradually. First along the L’Assomption River around 1748, then on the coast of the Ouareau River around 1750 and on the Saint-Pierre stream around 1765. The population grew rapidly. Then, the territory was known as Saint-Paul-de-Lavaltrie In 1855, the Parliament of United Canada passed the Lower Canada Municipalities and Roads Act to ensure the legal existence of many localities. That year, on July 1, a municipality was officially born under the name Conversion-de-Saint-Paul. In April 1922, the more urban sector of Conversion-de-Saint-Paul splitted away to form the new village municipality of Saint-Paul. That village changed its name seven years later to becom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Pierre, Quebec
Saint-Pierre is a village municipality in Joliette Regional County Municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Pierre had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Population: * Population in 2016: 276 (2011 to 2016 population change: -9.5%) * Population in 2011: 305 (2006 to 2011 population change: 0.3%) * Population in 2006: 304 * Population in 2001: 293 * Population in 1996: 357 * Population in 1991: 358 Mother tongue: * English as first language: 0% * French as first language: 100% * English and French as first language: 0% * Other as first language: 0% Education The Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board operates anglophone public schools, including: * Joliette Elementary School in Saint-Charles-Borromée * Joliette High School in Joliette [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barthélemy Joliette
Barthélemy Joliette (September 9, 1789 – June 21, 1850) was a notary, businessman, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada and Canada East. He was a descendant of Louis Jolliet. Early years He was born Barthélemy Jolliet in the parish of Saint-Thomas at Montmagny in 1789, a descendant of the explorer Louis Jolliet. After his father's death, his mother remarried and he grew up in L'Assomption. He articled as a notary with his uncle, Joseph-Édouard Faribault, was qualified to practice in 1810 and set up practice in L'Assomption. Career and marriage Joliette served as a captain in the local militia during the War of 1812. In 1813, he married Charlotte Lanaudière, daughter of Charles-Gaspard Tarieu de Lanaudière and received as dowry part of the seigneury of Lavaltrie. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Leinster in March 1820; however, parliament was dissolved shortly afterwards and he did not run in the election that followed later t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cégep Régional De Lanaudière
The Cégep régional de Lanaudière is a Cégep, made up of three constituent colleges in Joliette, L'Assomption and Terrebonne, located in Quebec, Canada. As of early 2014, there are over 2,500 students at the Joliette constituent college and over 1,700 at the L'Assomption and Terrebonne constituent colleges respectively. Admissions at the L'Assomption college are handled by the Service régional d'admission du Montréal métropolitain (or SRAM; eng: City of Montreal regional admission services). The Cégep régional de Lanaudière is a member of the ''Société de formation et d'éducation continue'' (or SOFEDUC; eng: Society for training and continuing education). The current director general of the Cégep régional de Lanaudière is Marcel Côté, who has held this position since 2011. History The Cégep régional de Lanaudière was founded in 1998 to provide accessible college-level education as well as continuing education opportunities to the Lanaudière region's yout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joliette Regional County Municipality
Joliette is a regional county municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is Joliette. The municipality has a land area of 417.41 km2 and its 2021 census population of 71,124 inhabitants. Subdivisions There are 10 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (3) * Joliette * Notre-Dame-des-Prairies * Saint-Charles-Borromée ;Municipalities (6) * Crabtree * Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes * Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare * Sainte-Mélanie * Saint-Paul * Saint-Thomas ;Villages (1) * Saint-Pierre Transportation Access Routes Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border: * Autoroutes ** * Principal Highways ** ** * Secondary Highways ** ** ** * External Routes ** None See also * List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec This is a list of the regional county municipalities (RCM or MRC) and equivalent territories (TE) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Area Codes 450 And 579
Area codes 450, 579 and 354 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan in the Canadian province of Quebec, encompassing the off-island suburbs of Montreal, as well as the rest of the Montérégie region southward to the border with New York state. Among the cities in the numbering plan area are Laval, Longueuil, Terrebonne, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Brossard, Repentigny, Saint-Jérôme, Granby, Blainville and Saint-Hyacinthe. Area code 450 is also shared by several small communities in an adjacent part of Ontario: some landline customers in Chute-à-Blondeau (East Hawkesbury), near Pointe-Fortune have +1-450-451-xxxx numbers from the Rigaud exchange. History Area code 514 served the entire Montreal area for over half-a-century. However, by the mid-1990s, it was on the verge of exhaustion because of Montreal's rapid growth and Canada's inefficient system of number allocation. All competitive local exchange carriers in Canada are allocated blocks of 10,0 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lanaudière
Lanaudière (, ) is one of the seventeen administrative regions of Quebec, Canada, situated immediately to the northeast of Montreal. It has a total population ( 2016 Census) of 494,796 inhabitants, an increase of 4.9% over the 2011 census. Geography The region of Lanaudière is part of central Quebec and is located between the Saint Lawrence River and the Laurentian Mountains, between Mauricie and the Laurentides. Lanaudière attracts a good deal of interest from vacationers due to its unique character founded largely on the harmony between its culture and the surrounding natural environment. Lanaudière's area of stretch northwest from a shoreline of on the Saint Lawrence River. Lanaudière is generally rural, while the urban areas are generally concentrated in the south of the region, such as Repentigny, Terrebonne and Berthierville. The altitude rises as one goes northwards; it is near the Saint Lawrence River to almost at the top of mountains near Saint-Donat and Sain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judicial Districts Of Quebec
The province of Quebec is divided into 36 ''judicial districts'' by the Territorial Division Act', R.S.Q., chapter D-11. Each district has a seat where the courthouse is located, although some have more than one courthouse, service point, or itinerant court location. {, border=1 !Judicial district !Seat and other courthouses !Municipalities served , - , valign=top, Abitibi , valign=top, Amos''Other courthouses: Chibougamau, Kuujjuaq, Val-d'OrJudicial service centre: La SarreItinerant services: Senneterre, Akulivik, Ivujivik, Kuujjuarapik, Puvirnituq, Salluit, Umiujaq, Kangiqsualujjuaq, Kangiqsujuaq, Kangirsuk, Quaqtaq, Chisasibi, Eastmain, Waskaganish, Wemindji, Mistissini, Nemiscau, Oujé-Bougoumou, Waswanipi'' , valign=top, Akulivik, Amos, Aupaluk, Authier, Authier-Nord, Baie-James, Barraute, Belcourt, Berry, Champneuf, Chapais, Chazel, Chibougamau, Chisasibi, Clermont, Clerval, Duparquet, Dupuy, Eastmain, Gallichan, Ivujivik, Kangiqsualujjuaq, Kangiqsujuaq, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Shore (Montreal)
The North Shore (french: Rive-Nord) is the general term for the northern suburbs of Montreal. The North Shore is located in southwestern Quebec on the northern shores of the Rivière des Prairies and the Rivière des Mille Îles, opposite the Island of Montreal and Île Jésus (the city of Laval). It consists of twenty municipalities that belong to the Laurentides and Lanaudière administrative regions. While the city of Laval is commonly associated with the North Shore, it is not considered part of the North Shore because of its status as an island. Included Municipalities Laurentians * Blainville *Bois-des-Filion *Boisbriand *Deux-Montagnes *Lorraine * Mirabel *Oka *Pointe-Calumet *Rosemère * Saint-Eustache *Saint-Joseph-du-Lac *Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines *Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac * Sainte-Thérèse Lanaudière *Charlemagne *L'Assomption *Mascouche * Repentigny * Saint-Sulpice *Terrebonne *Joliette See also *List of crossings of the Rivière des Prairies *List of cross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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