Saint-Clet is a municipality located in the

Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality 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 ...

within the

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region of Quebec, Canada. The population as of the

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was . Completely surrounded by agricultural land (mostly corn fields), the town is centred on the intersection of two main provincial highways. The north–south Route 201 is known as rue Principale within the town limits, and the east–west Route 340 is known as Boulevard de la Cité des Jeunes.

History

The parish of Saint-Clet was established in 1849 by its detachment from the parish of Saint-Ignace-du-Coteau-du-Lac at the request of residents who had to go all the way to

Coteau-du-Lac Coteau-du-Lac is a small city in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality. The name of the town comes from the French word ''Coteau'' which meant "sl ...

to attend mass. The first resident pastor of Saint-Clet was appointed in 1851 and four years later in 1855, the Parish Municipality of Saint-Clet was created. There were some mergers and demergers of territory over the ensuing years until August 31, 1974, when the current municipality of Saint-Clet was created through the merger of the Parish and Village Municipalities of Saint-Clet. The Canadian composer and music educator,

Achille Fortier Achille Fortier (23 October 1864 – 19 August 1939) was a Canadians, Canadian composer and music educator. His compositional output includes a modest amount of choir, choral and chamber music, chamber works, several songs and motets, and a small ...

, was born in Saint-Clet in 1864.

Events in the news

On 17 February 1954, a collision of two Canadian Pacific trains took place in Saint-Clet. It was a time when train travel was quite popular, and it was common for a train to travel in two separate sections. The impact occurred when the second section of the Toronto-Montreal train rear-ended the first section at the village station, where it had stopped because of a snowstorm. The accident caused one death and 73 injuries. Another event occurred on 14 March 1985, when heavy rains caused flooding, resulting in the evacuation of many homes. Heavy flooding again affected the town on 8 April 2014, when light rains and abruptly mild temperatures resulted in the rapid melting of a large volume of snow in a short period of time. The elevated railbed passing east–west through the town forms an artificial berm, impeding the flow of meltwater runoff from north to south. With only a couple of culverts to let the runoff go under the railbed, they were quickly overwhelmed and many basements north of the tracks were flooded.

Demographics

Language

Local government

List of former mayors (since formation of current municipality): * Joseph Ferdinand Charles Edouard Leduc (1974–1977) * Joseph Paul Arthur André Leroux (1977–1994) * Joseph Théophile Gaétan Pilon (1994–1995) * Joseph-Aldema-Guy-Gilles Farand (1995–2013) * Nicole Loiselle (2013) * Daniel Beaupré (2013–2021) * Mylène Labre (2021–present)

Education

Commission Scolaire des Trois-Lacs operates Francophone schools. * École Cuillierrier

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.School Board Map
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. Retrieved on 28 September 2017. * Evergreen Elementary and Forest Hill Elementary (Junior Campus and Senior campus) in Saint-Lazare or Soulanges Elementary School in

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* {{Authority control Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality