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Sainte-Rose is a district in Laval,

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. It was incorporated as a village in 1850, and was a separate town until the municipal mergers on August 6, 1965 which amalgamated all the municipalities on

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into a single City of Laval. Ste-Rose is best known for the parish church, erected 1740, which contains a

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organ and hosts numerous concerts every year, and for "Vieux Ste-Rose", an area known for its old houses and its restaurants. Other districts that are also part of Sainte-Rose are Champenois (located between Boulevard Curé-Labelle and Autoroute 15, to the west of "Vieux Ste-Rose") and Champfleury, also known as Des Oiseaux (after the name of the district's main thoroughfare), to the south, near the border with Chomedey.

Transportation

It is served by city bus lines operated by the Société de transport de Laval and by commuter trains of the Saint-Jerome line 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 ...

(RTM). The Sainte-Rose station on that line is located just east of "Vieux Ste-Rose", on the border with Auteuil.

Geography

Sainte-Rose is delimited on the north by the Rivière des Mille-Îles, on the west by Fabreville, on the north-east by Auteuil, on the south-east by Vimont and on the south by Chomedey.

Education

Commission scolaire de Laval The Centre de services scolaire de Laval (CSSDL) is a French-language school service centre in the Canadian province of Quebec. It is headquartered in Laval. As of 2011, the board of the predecessor, ''Commission scolaire de Laval'', managed fifty- ...

operates French-language public schools. * Écoles secondaire Curé-Antoine-Labelle * École primaire Demers * École primaire Des Cardinaux * École primaire Du Parc * École primaire L’Envolée * École primaire L’Aquarelle * École primaire Villemaire * École primaire Le Baluchon (alternative school)Le Baluchon (école alternative)
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. Retrieved on September 24, 2017. Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board operates English-language public schools. All sections of Laval are zoned to Laval Junior Academy and

Laval Senior Academy Laval Senior Academy (LSA) is an English-language senior high school in located in Laval, Québec. It is operated by the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. It was created on July 1, 2015, by the merger of Laval Liberty High School and Laurier Senio ...

Trivia

Antoine Labelle François-Xavier-Antoine Labelle (November 24, 1833 – January 4, 1891) was a Roman Catholic priest and the person principally responsible for the settlement (or "colonization") of the Laurentians. He is also referred to as "Curé Labelle" an ...

, priest and proponent of the settlement of the Laurentians, was born and lived there. His house is classified as an

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. * It is also the birthplace of painter

Marc-Aurèle Fortin Marc-Aurèle Fortin (March 14, 1888 – March 2, 1970) was a Québécois painter. Career Marc-Aurèle Fortin was born in 1888 in Ste-Rose, Quebec, son of Thomas Fortin. He studied in Montreal under Ludger Larose and Edmond Dyonnet, then un ...

. * Les Patriotes of the

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gathered at a hotel on a road that is known today as the "rue des Patriotes" (street of the Patriots).

References

Sainte-Rose at the Commission de toponymie du Québec

External links

City of Laval, official website
{{Laval, Quebec Neighbourhoods in Laval, Quebec Former municipalities in Quebec Populated places disestablished in 1965 Canada geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia