Vaudreuil-Dorion () is a

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of Greater Montreal, in the

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region of southwestern

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, Canada. The result of the merger of two towns, Vaudreuil and Dorion, it is located in the

Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality Vaudreuil-Soulanges () is a regional county municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is located on a triangular peninsula in the western Montérégie region of Quebec, formed by the confluence of the Ottawa River to the north, and the St. Lawrence River ...

History

On 23 November 1702, governor of

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Louis-Hector de Callière Louis-Hector de Callière or Callières (12 November 1648 – 26 May 1703) was a French military officer, who was the governor of Montreal (1684–1699), and the 13th governor of New France from 1698 to 1703. During his tenure as governor of ...

gave a seigneury to Philippe de Vaudreuil, who was governor of Montreal at the time. Rigaud de Vaudreuil later became governor of New France. In 1725, the region had only 38 inhabitants. About 1742 people began to be interested in the region and Vaudreuil's population rose. 381 people lived in Vaudreuil in 1765. With the creation of the Grand Trunk Railway, people began to live in Dorion, which was called Vaudreuil Station. Dorion became a village in 1891. Dorion was bisected by Autoroute 20 which links

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and

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via

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in Ontario. The

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and

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links between Toronto and Montreal are located in Dorion. Housing developments began in the 1950s and continued well into the 1970s. Throughout the 1980s and the 1990s, housing began sprouting north and east of Dorion. Vaudreuil and Dorion merged in 1994, becoming the City of Vaudreuil-Dorion.

Geography

Vaudreuil-Dorion is located on the south shores of the Lake of Two Mountains at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers, just off the western edge of Île Perrot. The city consists of two non-contiguous parts: its eastern part is the larger main area along Lake of Two Mountains where the population centres of Vaudreuil and Dorion are located; the western portion is a smaller rural area that borders Rigaud, and is separated from the eastern portion by Saint-Lazare and Hudson.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Vaudreuil-Dorion 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

List of former mayors: * Jean Lemaire (1994–1998) * Réjean Boyer (1998–2005) * Guy Pilon (2005–present)

Transportation

The city is the point of intersection for two of Canada's busiest highways: Autoroute 40/ Autoroute 30/ Autoroute 20 (connecting the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor) and Highway 417 connects to

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and Arnprior, Autoroute 20 and

connects Toronto to Montreal and Autoroute 30 is Montreal's Southern Bypass. Local bus service is operated by Exo La Presqu'Île, connecting to the Vaudreuil and Dorion stations on the Vaudreuil-Hudson commuter rail line.

Media

CJVD-FM operates studios in Vaudreuil-Dorion, broadcasting at 100.1 FM in Vaudreuil-Soulanges, the

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and Valleyfield. On the air since 2008, CJVD airs a French and English hits format spanning from the 1960s to 1995.

Education

Commission scolaire des Trois-Lacs operates Francophone public schools: *École Brind'Amour Pavillon P *École Sainte-Madeleine *École Saint-Michel *École Harwood (serves sector Dorion-Garden) *École du Papillon-Bleu (pavillon St-Jean-Baptiste and pavillon Sainte-Trinité) *École Hymne-au-Printemps * École Secondaire de la Cité-des-Jeunes

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 ...

operates Anglophone public schools: *Pierre Elliott Trudeau Elementary School *Other sections are zoned to Mount Pleasant Elementary School in Hudson, St. Patrick Elementary School in Pincourt, and Birchwood Elementary School and Evergreen Elementary School in Saint-Lazare.School Board Map
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. Retrieved on 28 September 2017.

Notable people

* Christian Chagnon -

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* André Hainault - soccer player,

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and Houston Dynamo * Constant Montpellier - jockey * Norbert Murphy - archer, Paralympic bronze medalist * Hormisdas Pilon - Quebec politician *

Sasha Pokulok Alexandre Grenier-Pokulok (born May 25, 1986 in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Québec) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for Bâtisseurs de Montcalm of the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey. Playing career Pokulok played one ...

- ice hockey

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* Marc-André Servant - ice dancer *

Maxime Deschamps Maxime Deschamps (born December 20, 1991) is a Canadian pair skater. With his skating partner, Deanna Stellato-Dudek, he is the 2023 Four Continents bronze medalist, 2022 Grand Prix de France champion, 2022 Skate America silver medallist, 202 ...

- figure skater

References

External links

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Ville de Vaudreuil-Dorion
{{Authority control Cities and towns in Quebec Incorporated places in Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality Canada geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia