Mascouche () is an off-island suburb of

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, in southern

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, Canada. The city is located on the Mascouche River within the Les Moulins Regional County Municipality and has a population of 51,183, ranking 20th among Quebec municipalities. The name comes from Algonquin word meaning "bear plain" in singular. Compare plural form to for the Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality located nearby.

History

Mascouche (Then known as Saint-Henri-de-Mascouche ) received city status on December 9, 1970, under mayor Gilles Forest. On June 21, 2021, the city was struck by an EF2 tornado killing one person.

Infrastructure

Montréal/Mascouche Airport Montréal/Mascouche Airport, formerly , was a small, general aviation airport located southeast of Mascouche and approximately northeast of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was reached by Autoroute 640 at exit 44. The runway was parallel to Autoro ...

, the largest regional airport in Quebec, is three kilometres southeast of the city. Autoroutes

640 Year 640 (Roman numerals, DCXL) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 640 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar er ...

and 25, both major national transportation routes, meet just south of the centre of the city. Mascouche is connected to Montreal's Central Station by commuter rail via the

Mascouche station Mascouche station is a commuter rail station operated by Exo in Mascouche, Quebec, Canada, a suburb north of Montreal, Quebec. It is the northern terminus of the Mascouche line. The station is located parallel to Rue de la Gare in Mascouche. It ...

of the

Réseau de transport métropolitain Exo, officially known as Réseau de transport métropolitain (RTM; en, Metropolitan Transportation Network), is a public transport system in Greater Montreal, including the Island of Montreal, Laval (Île Jésus), and communities along both t ...

Mascouche line Mascouche (also designated exo5, known during planning as Repentigny–Mascouche) is a commuter railway line in Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by Exo, the organization that operates public transport services across this reg ...

. L'Étang-du-Grand-Coteau, an urban park situated in the city centre on Mascouche Boulevard, has the same area as

Mount Royal Park Mount Royal (french: link=no, Mont Royal, ) is a large intrusive rock hill or small mountain in the city of Montreal, immediately west of Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The best-known hypothesis for the origin of the name Montreal is the hi ...

in Montreal.

Demographics

In the

2021 Census of Population The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...

conducted by

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, Mascouche 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.

Mayors

#André Duval (1955–1965) #Gilles Forest (1965–1983) #Bernard Patenaude (1983–1992) #Richard Marcotte (1992–2012) #Denise Paquette (2012–2013) #

Guillaume Tremblay Guillaume Tremblay (born April 14, 1984) is a Canadian politician. Formerly a Parti Québécois member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 2008 to 2012, he is currently serving as the mayor of Mascouche. Born in Mascouche, Quebec, Tremblay ...

(2013–present)

Education

The

Commission scolaire des Affluents The Commission scolaire des Affluents is a former francophone school district in the Canadian province of Quebec, headquartered in Repentigny.Home ...

operates Francophone public schools. They include: Primary schools: *L'école Aux 4 Vents *L'école De la Source *L'école La Mennais *L'école des Hauts-Bois *L'école Soleil-Levant *L'école Le Rucher *L'école de La Seigneurie Secondary schools : *

École secondaire Le Prélude École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Sav ...

* École secondaire Du Coteau One professional school, École L'Impact.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board The Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board (SWLSB, french: Commission scolaire Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier, CSSWL) is a school board headquartered in Rosemère, Quebec in Greater Montreal. It officially came into existence in July 1998 when English-language sc ...

operates Anglophone public schools: * Pinewood Elementary School in Mascouche serves the western portion * Franklin Hill Elementary School in Repentigny serves the eastern portion *

Rosemere High School Rosemere High School (RHS) of the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board is a high school located in the town of Rosemère, Québec, Canada. It is housed in a two-story structure with enrollment of approximately 1,200 students. The building is adjacent ...

(all areas) in RosemereRosemere High School Zone
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. Retrieved on December 8, 2014.

Famous residents

Mascouche is the hometown of baseball player

Éric Gagné Éric Serge Gagné (; born January 7, 1976) is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher who played 10 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), most notably for the Los Angeles Dodgers. After signing with the Dodgers as a free agent in 1995 ...

. It is also

Émilie Mondor Émilie Mondor (April 29, 1981 – September 9, 2006) was a Canadian Olympic athlete, who was a two-time national champion in the women's 5,000 metres. Early life She was born in Mascouche, Quebec in 1981. Mondor studied at McGill University, ...

's hometown, a Canadian Olympic athlete, who was a two-time national champion in the women's 5,000 metres.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Cities and towns in Quebec