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, one of the

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. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 26,107. It merged with Longueuil 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 and Ski Mont Saint-Bruno, 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

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and the Montarville

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

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of the city could be explained by the sale of the seigneury to François-Pierre Bruneau, 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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Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil. 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 François-Pierre Bruneau 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

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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

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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 Ignace Bourget,

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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 Durham Report'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 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 Longueuil. 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 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, 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

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as a

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(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 Italian. Mother tongue language (2006)2006 Statistics Canada Community Profile: Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec
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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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. Local bus service is provided by the

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Education

The

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previously served the municipality. The French language school board Commission Scolaire des Patriotes 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 Mont Saint-Bruno, one of the mountains that make up the

. The mountain is home to a provincial park, '' Parc National du Mont-Saint-Bruno'', as well as a ski hill, Ski Mont Saint-Bruno.

Notable people

The following are notable residents or past residents of Saint-Bruno: *

Maryse Andraos Maryse Andraos (born 1988) is a Canadian writer from Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec,Joël Bouchard Joël Bouchard (born January 23, 1974) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played in the National Hockey League with eight teams for parts of 11 seasons. He was most recently the head coach of the American Hockey Leag ...

, retired professional NHL hockey player *

Claude Crépeau Claude Crépeau is a professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University. Ηe was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1962. He received a master's degree from the Université de Montréal in 1986, and obtained his Ph.D. in Computer ...

, computer scientist * L. Denis Desautels, former

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, shareholder and founder of Cirque du Soleil *

Georges Larivière Georges Larivière (born 1942) is a Canadian retired ice hockey coach, professor, writer, and sports administrator. He was the director of the Faculty of Physical Education at the Université de Montréal, researched the development of ice h ...

, professor, writer, ice hockey coach *

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, pop singer *

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, retired professional NHL hockey player *

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, Canadian heavy metal band * Maxime Talbot, professional NHL hockey player *

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, retired professional tennis player * Annette and Cécile Dionne, first quintuplets known to have survived their

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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 *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 Longueuil'' *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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