Saint-Laurent () is a

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of the city of

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, Canada, located in the northern part of the

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. Although it is no longer an independent city, it is still commonly known as Ville Saint-Laurent (''City of Saint-Laurent'') or by its initials, ''VSL''. Saint-Laurent is the largest of Montreal's boroughs by land area. Its population was 98,828 inhabitants in 2016.

History

The history of Saint-Laurent begins in the end of the 17th century with the settling of the lands given by Maisonneuve, first governor of Montreal, then by the

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, lords of Montreal's island, to Jean Descarie. His three sons were the first to settle on the lands of Cote Saint-Laurent in 1687. After the signing of the

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in 1701, 19 other settlers joined them and built a chapel the next year.

The Parish of Saint-Laurent

On September 20, 1720, Saint-Laurent was founded as the Parish of Saint-Laurent. On March 3, 1722, its territory was defined, it then had 29 scattered dwellings. On August 10, 1735, a new church was erected next to the intersection of Montée Saint-Laurent (future Sainte-Croix boulevard) and Chemin de la Côte-Vertu. Its central location in the parish, halfway between the Côte Saint-Laurent and the Côte Notre-Dame, facilitating access, will become the heart of a village. Indeed, it was along Montée Saint-Laurent, the axis linking Ville-Marie to the North Shore, that the first businesses developed, notably inns and blacksmiths to serve travellers. Parish of St Laurent Atlas of the city and island of Montreal 1879

Parish of St Laurent Atlas of the city and island of Montreal 1879

By 1740, all the lands administered by the Sulpicians were granted to settlers. 162 families lived there in 1765. After the cession of

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, Saint-Laurent experienced no population exodus and Scottish families joined the French Canadians. In 1825, the parish was the most populated on the Island of Montreal outside of those of the city of Montreal. It was then an agricultural village, market gardening being the specialty of the place. In 1837, the church of Saint-Laurent, damaged by lightning in 1806, was rebuilt. On May 15 of the same year,

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made one of the most important speeches of his career there in front of his supporters gathered on the square. Musee college

The growth of the village began with the arrival of the Fathers of Sainte-Croix

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in 1847. They built their Canadian headquarters around the church and then, in 1852, an educational establishment: the Industrial Academy. The prestigious reputation of this bilingual school, which took the name of Collège de Saint-Laurent, would make that of the village. In 1885, the arrival of the

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between Saint-Laurent and Montreal attracted new industries complementing the exploitation of quarries which had been the main industry since 1860.

The city of Saint-Laurent

On February 27, 1893, the urbanized center of the parish obtained the status of city. There were then 225 houses for 1,225 inhabitants. During the 20th century, the parish was successively amputated of several territories, which would become the Town of Mount-Royal,

Cartierville Cartierville is a neighbourhood in the north end of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, located in the borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville. Cartierville is bordered to the north by the Rivière des Prairies, to the south by the borough of Saint-Laurent, to th ...

, as well as part of

Dorval Dorval (; ) is an Greater Montreal, on-island suburban City (Quebec), city on the island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. In 2016, the Canadian Census indicated that the population increased by 4.2% to 18,980. Although the city has t ...

. The city of Saint-Laurent and the parish of Saint-Laurent will coexist until 1954 and the complete annexation of the latter. Saint-Laurent Cartierville Airport 1929

In 1896, the Montreal Park and Island Railway Company tramway reached Saint-Laurent along the Grande-Allée-de-Florence (current Decarie Boulevard). The same year, at the instigation of the mayor and promoter Édouard Gohier, the city adopted an urban plan which grouped together the sectors of activity following the

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model. To attract Montreal families to the countryside, the establishment of certain polluting industries (slaughterhouses, distilleries, gasworks) was prohibited and the municipal territory was divided into deep plots bordered by wide tree-lined streets. The city was modernized with the arrival of electric lighting in 1900 and a complete aqueduct system the following year. A town hall, which also served as a fire station, was built in 1912 on the site of the current Vieux-Saint-Laurent library. Ten years later, a hospital opened its doors. On October 21, 1918, the

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of the

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, the first electrified railway line in Canada, directly linked Saint-Laurent to downtown Montreal. Three stations were built on the municipal territory: Vertu (renamed

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), Monkland and Lazard (renamed Val-Royal then Bois-Franc), the terminus. In 1911, an aerodrome, the Bois-Franc Field, was built west of the city. It became

Cartierville airport Cartierville Airport (formerly ) was an airport in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, now a borough of Montreal. The airport (Bois-Franc Field when it opened in 1911 and during World War I) was decommissioned in 1988 and turned into the Bois-Franc neighbou ...

. The aeronautical industry settled there in 1935 with the small factory of Noorduyn Aviation, joined in 1942 by that of

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which would become Canadair. It experienced considerable growth during

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. Tens of thousands of workers took part in the

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and a first residential suburb, the Norvick district (contraction of Noorduyn-vickers), was built on the model of garden cities to house some of them nearby. Garden

After the war, Saint-Laurent experienced an unprecedented economic and demographic boom. While agriculture was gradually disappearing, the expanse of land available in the immediate vicinity of Dorval airport and the metropolitan and Décarie highways favored industrial development to such an extent that Saint-Laurent became the second industrial city in Quebec, behind Montreal. Alongside the factories, new suburbs structured for cars were developing to the north and west of the historic centre. The reconstruction, in 1957, of the Town Hall on new land to the west testifies to the displacement of the center of gravity of the city. In 1968, the college became the

Cégep de Saint-Laurent Cégep de Saint-Laurent () is a public French-language college located in the Saint-Laurent borough in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located just south of the English-language Vanier College. History The college traces its origins to the mer ...

. Two years later, an English-speaking public college opened its doors:

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. In addition to bungalows, the 1960s and 1970s saw the construction of large modernist

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on the outskirts of the city.

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ceased to serve Saint-Laurent at the end of 1959 and were replaced by buses. On January 9, 1984, the

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replaced them with the opening of the Du Collège station. A second station,

Côte-Vertu Côte-Vertu may refer to: *Côte-Vertu Boulevard, in Saint-Laurent and Dorval (Montreal) * Côte-Vertu station, a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Saint-Laurent *Terminus Côte-Vertu, an Exo bus terminus partly north and partly south of the ...

, opened at the end of 1986. Two more were then planned but did not see the light of day following the budgetary restrictions of the 1990s. In the last decade of the 20th century, urban planning continued with projects inspired by

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that gave pride of place to green spaces and bodies of water. An industrial park, Technoparc Montréal, was inaugurated in 1992 with the aim of attracting high-tech companies. Today, the Technoparc is Canada's first science park. It is managed by the City of Montreal and brings together more than a hundred companies in the aeronautics, life sciences, pharmaceuticals and technology sectors. In March 1988, the town hall launched a vast housing construction project: the New Saint-Laurent. The same year, the Bombardier group took advantage of the closure of Cartierville airport, which it owned, to propose its conversion into a residential area. Construction of the Bois-Franc district officially began on August 6, 1993, but sales being slower than expected, a golf course was built on unsold land in June 2002. The golf closed in November 2011 and construction resumed.

The borough of Saint-Laurent

The City of Saint-Laurent or ''Ville Saint-Laurent'' was merged into the city of

on January 1, 2002, by the

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government. On June 20, 2004, the demerger forces lost a referendum on the issue of recreating Saint-Laurent as a city. While 75% of the turnout voted to demerge, this only represented 28.5% of the total eligible voting population, falling short of the requisite 35% as set by the province. The construction of the Reseau Express Metropolitan will add five

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stations to the borough in 2023, three of which will replace existing

commuter train Commuter rail or suburban rail is a passenger rail service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting commuters to a central city from adjacent suburbs or commuter towns. Commuter rail systems can use locomotive-hauled tr ...

stations.

Geography

Saint-Laurent is one of Montreal's outer boroughs located in the north central part of the island. It's bordered by

Pierrefonds-Roxboro Pierrefonds-Roxboro () is a borough of the city of Montreal. It was created January 1, 2006, following the demerger of parts of the city. Geography It is composed of the former municipalities of Pierrefonds and Roxboro, spanning the northern ...

to the west,

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to the north and east, and

Côte-des-Neiges Côte-des-Neiges (, ) is a neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at the geographic centre of the Island of Montreal on the western slope of Mount Royal and is part of the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. His ...

and the Town of Mount-Royal to the south. Saint-Laurent is home to many parks including the

Bois-de-Liesse Nature Park The Bois-de-Liesse Nature Park is a large nature park that spans several cities on the northwestern part of the Island of Montreal in Quebec, Canada. Most of the western reach of the park is in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, with a small part in Dorva ...

. Notable neighbourhoods include Bois-Franc, Vieux Saint-Laurent, Norgate and Saint-Laurent North.

Demographics

In 2016 the immigrant population was 54 percent. Villestlau

Economy

Saint-Laurent is the second-largest employment hub within the metropolitan region, after downtown Montréal. Air Canada Centre, also known as ''La Rondelle'' ("The Puck" in

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), is

Air Canada Air Canada is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Canada, by size and passengers carried. Air Canada is headquartered in the borough of Saint-Laurent in the city of Montreal. The airline, founded in 1937, provides scheduled and cha ...

's headquarters, located on the grounds of Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport and in Saint-Laurent.Detailed Map of Dorval
." City of Dorval. Retrieved on November 4, 2010. In 1990 the airline announced that it was moving its headquarters from

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to the airport to cut costs. In addition

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's headquarters and a regional office of

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are in Saint-Laurent and on the grounds of Trudeau Airport. Before its dissolution

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was headquartered in Saint-Laurent.

Bombardier Aerospace Bombardier Aviation, a division of Bombardier Inc., is headquartered in Dorval, Quebec, Canada. The company currently produces the Global and Challenger series of business jets. At its peak, Bombardier operated manufacturing plants in 27 c ...

has the Amphibious Aircraft Division in Saint-Laurent.

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) is the oldest

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. It was built in Saint-Laurent in 1949, is still operational, and was refurbished in the 2010s. From 1974 to 1979,

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buses were built in a plant in Saint-Laurent. Decarie Hot Dog (; founded 1969) is a

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counter restaurant and landmark located in Saint-Laurent.

Government

Municipal

Saint-Laurent is divided into two electoral districts: * Norman-McLaren (named for

Norman McLaren William Norman McLaren, LL. D. (11 April 1914 – 27 January 1987) was a Scottish-Canadian animator, director and producer known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).Rosenthal, Alan. ''The new documentary in action: a caseb ...

, a cinema pioneer at the

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, whose headquarters were located in the district from 1956 until 2019); * Côte-de-Liesse

Provincial

Provincially Saint-Laurent is divided into two ridings: * Saint-Laurent * Acadie

Federal

Federally the entire borough corresponds exactly to the federal riding of Saint-Laurent.

Infrastructure

Saint-Laurent has three fire stations and two police stations, one municipal court building, two libraries, the former City Hall (now the borough hall). There are two indoor hockey arenas, the municipal ''Raymond Bourque Arena'', named after

Raymond Bourque Raymond Jean Bourque (born December 28, 1960) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He holds records for most career goals, assists, and points by a defenceman in the National Hockey League (NHL). He won the James Norris Memorial ...

a former NHL player and

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member and a Multipurpose Sports Complex. There is also the commercial ''Bonaventure's Arena'' which has rinks available for rent.

Transportation

Saint-Laurent is served by two metro stations, Du Collège and

, the latter of which also serves as a major bus terminus. There are plans to extend the metro's Orange line to the Bois-Franc REM station with a station at Poirier. Three light metro stations from the

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, Bois-Franc, Du Ruisseau and

, are also located in Saint-Laurent. Autoroutes include Autoroute 15 (Décarie Expressway), Autoroute 40 (Trans Canada), Autoroute 520, and Autoroute 13, and a secondary highway ( Route 117). in addition to major urban boulevards ( Marcel-Laurin Boulevard, Henri Bourassa Boulevard, Cavendish Boulevard,

Côte-Vertu Boulevard Côte-Vertu Boulevard () is a boulevard in the Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Saint-Laurent borough in Montreal, Quebec. It crosses the borough from north-east to south-west of the Air Canada Technical Center to the west of the Chomedey Highway Quebec ...

Decarie Boulevard Autoroute 15 is a Autoroute (Quebec), highway in western Quebec, Canada. It is also called the Décarie Expressway (English) or (French) between the Turcot Interchange, Turcot and Décarie Interchange, Décarie Interchanges in Montreal and th ...

, Thimens Boulevard). The former

Cartierville Airport Cartierville Airport (formerly ) was an airport in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, now a borough of Montreal. The airport (Bois-Franc Field when it opened in 1911 and during World War I) was decommissioned in 1988 and turned into the Bois-Franc neighbou ...

is no more, having been turned into a residential subdivision called '' Bois-Franc''. Part of Trudeau International Airport also lies within the territory of Saint-Laurent.

Education

Saint-Laurent contains two CÉGEPs within its limits, one English (

) and one French (

). An art museum, the Saint-Laurent Museum of Art, is located on the campus of Cégep de Saint-Laurent, along with an indoor college hockey rink. Formerly, there was also a bowling alley on the campus. The '' Commission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys'' (CSMB) operates Francophone public schools.

Elementary

* ''École Beau-Séjour'' * ''École des Grand Etres'' * ''École Enfant-Soleil'' * ''École Jean-Grou'' * ''École Laurentide'' * ''École Bois-Franc-Aquarelle'' * ''École Édouard-Laurin'' * ''École Jonathan'' * ''École Hébert'' * ''École au Trésor-du-Boisé'' * ''École Cardinal-Léger'' * ''École Enfants-du-Monde'' * ''École Henri-Beaulieu'' * ''École Katimavik''

High school

* ''École Secondaire Saint-Laurent'' (''Édifice Émile-Legault'' and ''Édifice Saint-Germain'')

Specialized

* ''Centre de formation professionnelle Léonard-De Vinci'' (''Édifice Côte-Vertu'' and ''Édifice Thimens'') The

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(EMSB) operates the following Anglophone public schools

Elementary

* ''Parkdale Elementary School'' * ''Cedarcrest Elementary School'' * ''Gardenview Elementary School''

High school

* '' LaurenHill Academy''

Specialized

* ''St. Laurent Adult Education Centre''
Trans-Canada Driving School Saint-Laurent
Courses Class 1, 2, 3, 5. For Auto, Bus and Heavy Trucks for over 25 years on Decarie Boulevard.

Private schools

*''École Alex Manoogian de l'U.G.A.B'' (

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) *'' École Maïmonide, Campus Jacob Safra'' *''École

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Ville-Marie'', ''Campus Saint-Laurent'' *''École bilingue Notre-Dame de Sion'' *''École Education Plus'' Previously it housed a campus of the

United Talmud Torahs of Montreal United Talmud Torahs of Montreal (, ) (also known as The Azrieli Schools, in French: Les écoles Azrieli) is a private co-educational Jewish day school system that includes an elementary school, United Talmud Torah, and a high school, Herzliah H ...

Jewish school.

Kativik School Board The Kativik School Board (KSB; , Kativik Ilisarniliriniq) is a school district with territory in Nunavik in northern Quebec; it has an office in the Saint-Laurent area of Montreal and one in Kuujjuaq. While most Quebec school boards are categor ...

, which operates schools in

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, has its main office here.

Public libraries

The

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operates the Vieux-Saint-Laurent Branch and the Du Boisé Branch in Saint-Laurent.

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Saint-Laurent is twinned with: * Mérignac,

Gironde Gironde ( , US usually , ; , ) is the largest department in the southwestern French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Named after the Gironde estuary, a major waterway, its prefecture is Bordeaux. In 2019, it had a population of 1,623,749.

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, France *

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, Alberta,

Notable people

Ray Bourque Raymond Jean Bourque (born December 28, 1960) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He holds records for most career goals, assists, and points by a defenceman in the National Hockey League (NHL). He won the James Norris Memorial ...

, former NHL player. A member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. * Anthony Lukca, professional Canadian football player *

Pierre Houde Pierre Houde (born 14 July 1957) is a Canadian play-by-play sports announcer for Réseau des sports (RDS). He has announced broadcasts of Montreal Canadiens games since 1989, and received the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award in 2024, in recognit ...

, a play-by-play sports announcer for RDS. *

Raoul Jarry Raoul Jarry (1885 – January 23, 1930) was a Canadian politician and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec. Background Raoul Jarry was born in 1885 to Stanislas Bleignier Jarry Sr (1844-1901) and Delphine Jasmin (1855-1942). Jarry had brothers, ...

, Montreal city councillor and descendant of early settler Berndard Bleignier dit Jarry and son of former village mayor Stanislas Jarry Sr.

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The Parish of Saint-Laurent

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The borough of Saint-Laurent

Geography

Demographics

Economy

Government

Municipal

Provincial

Federal

Infrastructure

Transportation

Education

Elementary

High school

Specialized

Elementary

High school

Specialized

Private schools

Public libraries

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Notable people

See also

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