Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot is the largest of four municipalities located on

Île Perrot Île Perrot () is an island west of the island of Montreal in the Canadian province of Quebec. Part of the Hochelaga Archipelago, the island lies between Lake Saint-Louis and Lac des Deux-Montagnes. The island was granted by the Intendant Talon ...

, west of the island of

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. The population as of the

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was 10,654. It hosts the island's first church built in 1740 originally situated at Pointe-du-Moulin which was reconstituted as the Chapelle du Souvenir in 1953 beside the church of Sainte-Jeanne-de-Chantal across from the town hall.

History

The island was granted as a seigneury on October 29, 1672, to

François-Marie Perrot François-Marie Perrot (; 1644 – 1691) was born in Paris and Seigneur de Sainte-Geneviève. Biography He was appointed governor of Montreal by a royal commission in 1670 and arrived in New France that year. Records do show his tenure as 1 ...

(1644-1691), captain in the Picardy Regiment and governor of Montreal in 1670. In 1949, the Parish Municipality of Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot was formed out of the Parish Municipality of L'Île-Perrot. A year later, it lost part of its territory when the Village Municipality of Pincourt was created. On December 18, 1986, the Town of Pointe-du-Moulin (founded in 1958) was amalgamated into Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot, which changed statutes from parish municipality to (regular) municipality in 1998, and became a ''ville'' in 2004.

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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, Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot 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.

Local government

List of former mayors: * Michel Tarte (2001–2005) * Serge Roy (2005–2009) * Marie-Claude Nichols (2009–2014) * Danie Deschênes (2014–present)

Transportation

There is a shuttle bus service operated by

CIT La Presqu'Île CIT or cit may refer to: Organizations * CIT Group, an American banking and financial services company * CIT Bank, a subsidiary of CIT Group * Center for Information Technology, of the US government * Compagnia Italiana Turismo, an Italian trave ...

connecting to the Vaudreuil-Hudson commuter rail line.

Education

Commission Scolaire des Trois-Lacs operates Francophone schools. * École de la Samare * École Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde * Some areas are zoned to École La Perdriolle in L'Île-Perrot

Lester B. Pearson School Board The Lester B. Pearson School Board (LBPSB, french: Commission scolaire Lester-B.-Pearson, CSLBP) is one of the largest school boards on the island of Montreal and one of the nine English school boards in the province of Quebec. It is headquartere ...

operates Anglophone schools. A part of the community is zoned to Dorset Elementary School in

Baie-d'Urfé Baie-D'Urfé (; previously Baie d'Urfé or Baie d'Urfee) is an on-island suburb of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is part of the West Island area of the Island of Montreal. As part of the 2002–2006 municipal reorganization of Montreal, Baie-D'Ur ...

and another is zoned to Edgewater Elementary School and St. Patrick Elementary School in

Pincourt Pincourt () is a municipality on the island of Île Perrot, off the western tip of the island of Montreal, Quebec. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 14,305. The town shares the island with the three other municipalities of Notre-D ...

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. Retrieved on 28 September 2017.

References

External links

Official website
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