Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville is an off-island suburb of

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, in southwestern

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, Canada, on the south bank of the

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just east of

. It lies on the west flank of

Mont Saint-Bruno Mont Saint-Bruno is part of the Monteregian Hills in southern Quebec, Canada. Its summit stands high and lies east of downtown Montreal. This mountain has a ski resort, a natural area, and an apple orchard. Forests of beech, maple, oak, hicko ...

, one of the

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. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 26,107. It merged with

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in 2002 but de-merged in 2006. The city is well known to

ers and its neighbouring population for Mont Saint-Bruno, location to both

Mont-Saint-Bruno National Park Mont-Saint-Bruno Provincial Park (french: Parc Provincial du Mont-Saint-Bruno) is a small national park of Quebec located near the municipality of Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, to the east of Montréal on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence Ri ...

and

Ski Mont Saint-Bruno Ski Mont Saint-Bruno is a Canadian alpine ski facility. It is located on the slopes of Mont Saint-Bruno, in the city of Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec. It is located right next to Parc national du Mont-Saint-Bruno, a Quebec provincial park I ...

, a ski facility and school.

Etymology

There are two prevailing hypotheses on the origin of the city's name: * That the city was named after

Bruno of Cologne Bruno of Cologne, O.Cart. (german: Bruno von Köln, it, Bruno di Colonia;c. 1030 – 6 October 1101), venerated as Saint Bruno, was the founder of the Carthusian Order. He personally founded the order's first two communities. He was a celebrate ...

and the Montarville

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. The name "Montarville" is a homonym of a village of

Eure-et-Loir Eure-et-Loir (, locally: ) is a French department, named after the Eure and Loir rivers. It is located in the region of Centre-Val de Loire. In 2019, Eure-et-Loir had a population of 431,575.Montharville, whose etymology is uncertain. The name was written in its Latin form, ''Mons Harvilla'' in the 12th century – in other words "''Harics farm's mount", a name of Germanic origins also found in Harville (''Hairici villa'', 9th century). However, this uncommon composition of a Roman appellation ("mont") associated with the

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"-ville" place name casts doubts on this explication. It could be the name of an unidentified Germanic individual. * Quebec's toponymy commission suggests another hypothesis to explain the origin of the city's name. "Montarville" could be a

portmanteau A portmanteau word, or portmanteau (, ) is a blend of wordsPierre Boucher de Boucherville, the region's first

seigneur ''Seigneur'' is an originally feudal title in France before the Revolution, in New France and British North America until 1854, and in the Channel Islands to this day. A seigneur refers to the person or collective who owned a ''seigneurie'' (or ...

. The hypothesis rests on the fact that the descendants of de Boucherville were named Montarville, Niverville, etc. The

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of the city could be explained by the sale of the seigneury to

François-Pierre Bruneau François-Pierre Bruneau (July 24, 1799 – March 4, 1851) was a lawyer, seigneur, businessman and political figure in Canada East. He was born in Montreal in 1799, the son of François-Xavier Bruneau, and studied at the Petit Séminaire de M ...

, whose name was slightly transformed.

History

The seigneury of Montarville

Pierre Boucher de Boucherville Junior was granted the Montarville

in 1710 by the governor of

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. In 1723, it was noted that clearing had not begun and no one was inhabiting the seigneury yet. The ownership remained in the Boucher family until 1829, when René Boucher de la Bruère sold half his land and his rights as a seigneur to

of Montréal. He died in 1851 and his brother Oliver-Théophile Bruneau (who was the first professor of anatomy at

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), was the last seigneur of Montarville from 1851 until the seigneural system was abolished in 1854. While agriculture was the primary subsistence and economical activity of the region, the seigneury of Montarville, thanks to its proximity to Mount Saint-Bruno, benefited much from the industrial activity that developed around the hydraulic power it could harvest from the mountain's many ponds and streams. The first water mill was erected in 1725 and in the 19th century, they numbered six in the territory and permitted such activities as grinding grain, milling wood, tanning leather and carding and spinning wool. The 19th century also saw the diversification of the seigneury's agricultural activities through increased animal husbandry, orchards, and maple syrup collection.

From parish to village to city

At the beginning of the 19th century, families residing on the western flank of the mountain were under the clerical responsibility of the parish of Boucherville while families from the southern flank were under the responsibility of the parish of Saint-Joseph de Chambly. As a consequence, the tithe was being paid to two different parishes, so in 1809 a first request to transform the seigneury into a parish was made to M^gr Joseph-Octave Plessis, Archbishop of Quebec. This request was met with a refusal. It would be thirty-three years before the Montarvillans attempted to form into their own parish again. It is worth mentioning that in 1838 during the Patriotes Rebellion, François-Pierre Bruneau's manor was occupied by the Patriotes and that one of them, André Proteau, was from the seigneury. In 1842, a petition totaling about sixty signatures was presented to M^gr

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of Montreal who agreed to the demand, and in the same year he signed a canonical decree officiating the creation of the parish of Saint-Bruno. François-Pierre Bruneau was honored with the choice of the titular saint, Saint Bruno. In line with the

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's recommendation to modernize municipal structures in 1840 (culminating in the abolition of the seigneury system in 1854) and the ''Acte pour abroger certaines ordonnances et pour faire de meilleures dispositions pour l'établissement d'autorités locales et municipales dans le Bas-Canada'' (Act to abrogate certain ordinances and to make better dispositions to establish local and municipal authorities in Lower-Canada), on 1 July 1845 the Legislative Assembly created more than 325 municipal corporations in eastern Canada of which Saint-Bruno, then with a population of 800, was a part. The following year on 9 October 1846, the parish municipality of Saint-Bruno was born through an official proclamation. Centre-ville de Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville 2021

Centre-ville de Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville 2021

For a few years, Saint-Bruno remained part of the municipality of Chambly but in 1855, as mandated by the ''Loi constituant en municipalités toutes paroisses de plus de 300 personnes'' (Law making into a municipality every parish of more than 300 persons), the parish municipality became fully autonomous and its two names, "Saint-Bruno" and "Montarville", were joined into the designation still used to this day. It incorporated as a city in 1958.

Merger and demerger

In 2000, the

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governments of

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and

Bernard Landry Bernard Landry (; March 9, 1937 – November 6, 2018) was a Canadian politician who served as the 28th premier of Quebec from 2001 to 2003. A member of the Parti Québécois (PQ), he led the party from 2001 to 2005, also serving as the leader o ...

introduced a series of legislative measures with the intent of reorganizing and merging many of Quebec's municipalities. In 2002, following the adoption of bill 170, Saint-Bruno merged with other municipalities on

's south shore to form the city of

. Following public outcry and a referendum, the city demerged from Longueuil and was reconstituted on 1 January 2006, but remained within the agglomeration of Longueuil, which remains responsible for a series of services to the population.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville 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. ;Language The 2006 census found that about 85% of residents spoke French as a mother tongue (including persons who had more than one mother tongue), and that about 11% of residents spoke

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as a mother tongue (also including persons who had more than one mother tongue). The next most common mother tongue was

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Transportation

Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville is served by the Saint-Bruno

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station on the

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Mont-Saint-Hilaire line Mont-Saint-Hilaire (also designated exo3) is a commuter railway line in Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by Exo, the operator of public transport services across this region. The Mont-Saint-Hilaire line was operated by the Can ...

. Local bus service is provided by the

Réseau de transport de Longueuil Réseau de transport de Longueuil (RTL) ( en, Longueuil Transit Network) is a public transit system in the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada, and nearby communities on the South Shore of Montreal. The RTL had an annual ridership of 34,447,686 in ...

Education

The

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previously served the municipality. The French language school board

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oversees 3 primary education schools (École Albert-Schweitzer, École De Montarville and École Monseigneur-Gilles-Gervais) and one secondary education school (École Secondaire du Mont-Bruno). The English language school board

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oversees primary schools Mount Bruno School and Courtland Park International.

Mont Saint-Bruno

The town resides at the foot of

, one of the mountains that make up the

. The mountain is home to a provincial park, ''

Parc National du Mont-Saint-Bruno Mont-Saint-Bruno Provincial Park (french: Parc Provincial du Mont-Saint-Bruno) is a small national park of Quebec located near the municipality of Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, to the east of Montréal on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence Ri ...

'', as well as a ski hill,

Notable people

The following are notable residents or past residents of Saint-Bruno: * Maryse Andraos, writer * Joël Bouchard, retired professional NHL hockey player * Claude Crépeau, computer scientist *

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, former

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, shareholder and founder of Cirque du Soleil * Georges Larivière, professor, writer, ice hockey coach *

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, pop singer *

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, retired professional NHL hockey player * Sword, Canadian heavy metal band *

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, professional NHL hockey player * Sébastien Leblanc, retired professional tennis player * Annette and Cécile Dionne, first

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known to have survived their infancy

List of former mayors

*1866-1868: Joseph-Octave Leduc *1868-1870: Antoine-Dominique Hurtubise *1870-1872: Joseph-Octave Leduc *1872-1874: Tancrède Boucher de Grosbois, M.D. *1874-1877: Timothé Sauriol *1878: Jérémie Huet *1879-1886: Timothé Sauriol *1886: Michel Provost *1887-1891: Toussaint Bachand *1891-1893: Frank Bruneau *1893: Vital Delière *1894: Louis Baillargeon *1895-1902: Vital Delière *1903-1906: Ephrem Huette *1907: Clovis Mongeau *1908: Stanislas Boissy *1909-1910: Lucien Caillé *1911-1912: Philias Grisé *1913-1916: Oscar Berthiaume *1917-1920: Louis-Arthur Léonard *1921-1932: Armand Huet *1933-1939: Paul-Émile Huet *1939-1949: Ernest Dulude *1949-1952: J. Donat Fournier, M.D. *1952-1953: Ernest Dulude *1953-1955: Henri C. Bois *1955-1959: Hubert Kéroack *1960-1968:

Gérard Filion Gérard Filion, (August 18, 1909 – March 26, 2005) was a Canadian businessman and journalist. Born in L'Isle-Verte, Quebec, the youngest of 17 children, he received a Bachelor of Arts from Université Laval in 1931 and a diploma in 1934 f ...

*1968-1969: Claude Allard *1969-1971: Gérard Lepage *1971-1975: J. James Verge *1975-1979: J. Y. Serge Dazé *1979-2001: Marcel Dulude *2002-2006: ''Merged with the city of

'' *2007-2013: Claude Benjamin *2013-2021: Martin Murray *2021-current: Ludovic Grisé Farand

Gallery

File:centre marcel dulude 2010.jpg, Centre Marcel-Dulude Community Centre File:hotel de ville st bruno 2010.jpg, City Hall File:Eglise-unie-mount-bruno-2010.jpg, United Church File:Parc Rabastaliere Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville 2021.jpg, Rabastalière park

References

External links

City web site
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