Vaudreuil-Soulanges (electoral District)
Vaudreuil-Soulanges may refer to: * Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality, Quebec * Vaudreuil—Soulanges, a federal electoral district coterminal with the aforementioned Regional County Municipality * Vaudreuil-Soulanges (provincial electoral district) Vaudreuil-Soulanges was a provincial electoral district in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It was created for the 1939 election from parts of Vaudreuil and Soulanges electoral districts. Its final election was in 1985 The ...

Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality, Quebec
Vaudreuil-Soulanges () is a regional county municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is located on a triangular peninsula in the western Montérégie region of Quebec, formed by the confluence of the Ottawa River to the north, and the St. Lawrence River to the south. Ontario is located west of here. Geography Vaudreuil-Soulanges is part of the St Lawrence Valley. Two million years ago the region was subject to a series of glaciations that covered much of North America. The last in the series was the Wisconsin glaciation. The ice sheet weighed down the landscape. This created the depressions in the land that created the basins for Lake Saint-Louis, Lac des Deux-Montagnes and Lake Saint-Francis. As the ice sheet eroded, the region was mostly submerged 12,000 years ago by an inland saltwater sea known as the Champlain sea. Once the glacier was melted, the land rose again, pushing the saltwater into the sea. 10,000 years ago the body of water, now a fresh water lake, has been named by sch ...
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Vaudreuil—Soulanges
Vaudreuil—Soulanges is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1914 to 1968 and since 1997. It consists of the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality. The neighbouring ridings are Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation, Lac-Saint-Louis, Salaberry—Suroît, Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, and Glengarry—Prescott—Russell. Profile In recent electoral history, the Liberals have been dominant after taking the riding from the NDP in 2015. Their strength comes particularly from Vaudreuil, Dorion and Ile Perrot. The Bloc has its best showings in the south of the constituency, in Les Cèdres, with pockets in Vaudreuil and Rigaud. The Conservatives have also historically done relatively well, with notable showings in 2006 and 2008 (when they came second to the Bloc). Demographics According to the 2016 Census, 58% had French as their mother tongue, 26% spoke English as their mother tongue, 2% combi ...
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