Sainte-Catherine is an off-island suburb of

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, in southwestern

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, Canada, on the St. Lawrence River in the Regional County Municipality of Roussillon. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 16,762.

History

The land had been occupied for more than three centuries, since the establishment of the

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mission in 1676, it is only in 1937 that the founding of la paroisse de Sainte-Catherine de Laprairie really marks a territorial organization. In 1973, a demographic boom finally granted the status of town to the village. In 2006, according to the city's official site, there were 17,000 inhabitants in Sainte-Catherine. The inauguration of the

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in 1934, and then of the Champlain Bridge in 1962, greatly boosted the local economy.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Sainte-Catherine 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.

Famous natives

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champion, Olympian

References

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History

Demographics

Famous natives

See also

References