Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec
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Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue () is an on-island suburb located at the western tip of the
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in southwestern
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, Canada. It is the second oldest community in Montreal's
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, having been founded as a parish in 1703. The oldest,
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, was founded in 1667. Points of interest include the
Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal The Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal is a canal and set of Lock (water transport), locks linking Lake Saint-Louis and Lake of Two Mountains at Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, the very westernmost point of Island of Montreal ...
(a
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), the Sainte-Anne Veterans' Hospital, the
Morgan Arboretum The Morgan Arboretum is a forested reserve, on the McGill University Macdonald Campus in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue on the western tip of the Island of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Arboretum is a mixed-use woodland and recreational area, with an ...
, and the L'Anse-à-l'Orme Nature Park. Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue is also home to
John Abbott College John Abbott College ( French: ''Collège John Abbott)'' is an English-language public college located in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada, near the western tip of the Island of Montreal. John Abbott College is one of eight English publ ...
and
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's
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, which includes the
J. S. Marshall Radar Observatory The J.S. Marshall Radar Observatory (or MRO) is a McGill University facility in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada housing several weather radars and other meteorological sensors, many of them running around the clock. It is one of the compon ...
and the
Canadian Aviation Heritage Centre The Montreal Aviation Museum (french: Musée de L'aviation de Montréal), formerly the Canadian Aviation Heritage Centre (french: Centre canadien du patrimoine aéronautique), is an aviation museum located in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canad ...
as well as about of farmland which separates the small town from neighbouring
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.


History

Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue was established on a location once known and frequented by both the
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and
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peoples. Situated between two important lakes (Lac des Deux-Montagnes and Lac Saint Louis) and near the confluence of two important rivers (the Saint Lawrence River and the Ottawa River) both nations recognized its natural strategic advantages and had names for the place. The oral records show that it was named “Tiotenactokte” by the Algonquin, which means "place of the last encampments" and that the Iroquois called it “Skanawetsy” meaning "white waters, after the rapids". In 1663, the Saint-Louis Mission was founded in the west end of Montreal Island at Pointe-Caron (site of the present-day
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yacht club), and was led by
François-Saturnin Lascaris d'Urfé François-Saturnin Lascaris d'Urfé, S.S. (1641 – June 30, 1701) was a French nobleman and Sulpician priest who became the first resident pastor of the parish of Saint-Louis-du-Haut-de-l'Île (in what is now the town of Baie-D'Urfé) on the Islan ...
. At that time, the mission included the entire area from the tip of Montreal Island to Pointe-Claire, Île Perrot, Soulanges, Vaudreuil, and Île aux Tourtes."History", City of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue
/ref> In 1672, King
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granted fiefdoms bordering on Lake of Two Mountains and Lake Saint-Louis to Louis de Berthé, Lord of Chailly, and to his brother Gabriel, Lord of La Joubardière. One of these adjacent fiefdoms was called Bellevue, due to its good views to the east and west. In 1677, the Parish of Saint-Louis-du-Bout-de-l'Île, sometimes also called Saint-Louis-du-Haut-de-l'Île, was founded. Jean de Lalonde was the first church warden. One September 30, 1687, Lalonde and four other parishioners were killed in a skirmish with the Iroquois. In 1703, the parish was closed and its registers moved to Lachine because of the constant threat from the
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. Around 1712, René-Charles de Breslay (1658–1735), local parish priest from 1703 to 1719, got caught in a fierce snowstorm. He fell from his horse, broke his leg on the ice, and lost the horse. Breslay was allegedly saved through the intervention by
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, after which he built a chapel dedicated to her at the westernmost point of Montreal Island next to
Fort Senneville Fort Senneville is one of the outlying forts of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, built by the Canadiens of New France near the Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue in 1671. The property was part of a fief ceded to Dugué de Boisbriant in 1672 by the Sulpicians. A l ...
and Tourtes Island (''Île aux Tourtes''). Two years later, the parish was reestablished and took the name Sainte-Anne-du-Bout-de-l'Île. From the early 1800s the town became a place of literary pilgrimage after
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the famous Irish composer wrote one of his most celebrated works ''Canadian Boat Song'' here. In 1835, the local post office opened. In 1843, the Sainte-Anne Canal was completed, resulting in a large number of travellers and merchants passing through the village. Another impetus to its development came a few years later in 1854, when the
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was built through the area, followed by the
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in 1887. In 1845, the place was first incorporated as the Municipality of Bout-de-l'Isle. This was abolished two years later, but in 1855, it was reestablished as the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Anne-en-l'Isle-de-Montréal. In 1878, the main settlement was incorporated as a separate village municipality, and the parish municipality was renamed to Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue that same year. The village municipality changed its status to town (''ville'') on January 12, 1895. The early 20th century saw several developments in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue: the
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(affiliated to the
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) was established in 1907; the Federal Government built Ste. Anne's Veteran Hospital in 1917; the
Galipeault Bridge The Galipeault Bridge is a bridge on the western tip of the Island of Montreal, spanning the Ottawa River between Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue and L'Île-Perrot, Quebec, L'Île-Perrot, Quebec, Canada. It carries four ...
was built in 1924 and doubled in 1964, linking Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue with
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. One of Canada's earliest Garden City experiments was undertaken in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue by John James Harpell, an industrialist, who around 1918 developed the neighbourhood of Gardenvale. The neighbourhood was granted its own post office in 1920. In 1911, the parish municipality lost part of its territory when
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 ...
became a separate municipality. In 1964, the town of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue annexed the parish municipality. On January 1, 2002, as part of the
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, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue was merged into the city of
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and became part of the borough of L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève–Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue. However, after a change of government and a 2004 referendum, it was re-constituted as an independent city on January 1, 2006.


Climate


Demographics

In the
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conducted by
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, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue 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

The current mayor of Saint-Anne-de-Bellevue is Paola Hawa. There are six city councilors: #Ryan Young (District 1) #Jean-Pierre Cardinal (District 2) #Dan Boyer (District 3) #Tom Broad (District 4) #Yvan Labelle (District 5) #Denis Gignac (District 6)


List of mayors

The mayors of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue have been: * Jules Tremblay, 1878–1879 * Thomas Grenier, 1880–1884, 1885–1886 * Antoine St-Denis, 1881–1883 * D. Lebeau, 1887 * L. Michaud, 1888–1897 * M. C. Bezner, 1898–1899, 1901–1905, 1909–10, 1915–1916 * L.N.F. Cypihot, 1900, 1921–1922 * J.A. Aumais, 1906 * Guis. Daoust, 1906, 1917–1920 * Bruno Lalonde, 1907–1908, 1913–1914 * J.S. Vallée, 1911–1912 * L.J. Boileau, 1923–1931, 1933–1934 * A.R. Demers, 1932, 1935–1938 * E.E. Deslauriers, 1939–1951 * Philippe Godin, 1951–1965 * J.L. Paquin, 1965–1973 * Alphonse Trudeau, 1973–1978 * Marcel Marleau, 1978–1984 * René Martin, 1984–1994 * Bill Tierney, 1994–2001, 2005–2009 * Francis Deroo, 2009–2013 * Paola Hawa, 2013–present


Transportation

Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue is traversed by Autoroute 40 (the
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) and Autoroute 20, which crosses the
Ottawa River The Ottawa River (french: Rivière des Outaouais, Algonquin: ''Kichi-Sìbì/Kitchissippi'') is a river in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. It is named after the Algonquin word 'to trade', as it was the major trade route of Eastern ...
over the
Galipeault Bridge The Galipeault Bridge is a bridge on the western tip of the Island of Montreal, spanning the Ottawa River between Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue and L'Île-Perrot, Quebec, L'Île-Perrot, Quebec, Canada. It carries four ...
linking it to
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 ...
. For public transit, the town is served by the Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue commuter train station on the Vaudreuil-Hudson Line. It also covered by the bus network of the
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. It is planned that Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue would be the westernmost terminus for the newly planned
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rapid transit system on the island of Montreal.


Education

The ''
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'' operates Francophone public schools, but were previously operated by the ''
Commission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys The Marguerite-Bourgeoys School Board (') was a French language public School Board on Montreal Island, Quebec, Canada. Its headquarters was in the Saint-Laurent borough of Montreal. Its education centre was in LaSalle, also in Montreal. It was ...
'' until June 15, 2020. The change was a result of a law passed by the Quebec government that changed the school board system from
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to
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. It operates the École primaire du Bout-de-l'Isle. The
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 ...
(LBPSB) operates Anglophone public schools in the area. It operates Macdonald High School. The zoned elementary school is 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 ...
School Board Map
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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 ...
. Retrieved on September 28, 2017.


See also

*
Ecomuseum Zoo The Ecomuseum Zoo (french: Zoo Ecomuseum) is a Canadian ecomuseum of zoological park in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec and was founded in 1988. It is accredited by the Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums (CAZA). It occupies of land on t ...
* List of former boroughs *
Montreal Merger Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-pe ...
*
Morgan Arboretum The Morgan Arboretum is a forested reserve, on the McGill University Macdonald Campus in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue on the western tip of the Island of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Arboretum is a mixed-use woodland and recreational area, with an ...
*
Municipal reorganization in Quebec A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...


References


External links


Official website

Ecomuseum

Parks Canada – Sante-Anne-de-Bellevue locks

Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue Rugby Club


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