Saint-Laurent, Quebec
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Saint-Laurent is one of the largest boroughs of the city of Montreal. Population (2001): 77,391.
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Geography
The burrough of Saint-Laurent has a noted art museum, which is a featured stop on the free tour during Montreal Museum Day. This art museum is located on the campus of CEGEP Saint-Laurent, along with the bowling alley, and an indoor hockey rink, of the burrough's.
The burrough has many transportation links, with two Montreal Metro stations (du Collège, Côte-Vertu, the unbuilt projected Val-Royal and de Salaberry), three commuter train stations (Bois-Franc, du Ruisseau, Montpellier, and the projected de Salaberry), four autoroutes (Autoroute 15 (Decarie Expressway and Laurentian Autoroute, Autoroute 40 - Metropolitan Boulevard, Autoroute 520, and Autoroute 13), and a secondary highway (Route 117), in addition to major urban boulevards (Boul. Marcel-Laurin, Boul. Henri-Bourassa, Boul. de Salaberry, Boul. Cavendish, rue Côte-Vertu, rue Decarie, rue Thiemens). The former Cartierville Airport is no more, having been turned into a subdivision called Bois Franc. Part of Dorval Airport also lies withing the territory of Saint-Laurent.
The burrough has three fire stations and two police stations, one municipal court building, one library, the former City Hall, and two indoor hockey arenas (Raymond Bourque Arena named after the legendary NHL Hall of Famer Raymond Bourque and Bonaventure's Arena)
Saint-Laurent contains two CEGEPs, one English (Vanier College) and one French (CEGEP Saint-Laurent) showing the history of Saint-Laurent as a college town, ever since the founding of College Saint-Laurent. With one French and one English university, it also shows the ethnic diversity of the burrough, with sizable French, Jewish, South-Asian, East-Asian, Arab, Italian, Greek, and English communities.
History
Saint-Laurent was founded as the Parish of Saint-Laurent.
Merger and Demerger
Ville Saint-Laurent was one of the economic engines of metropolitan Montreal, which was forcibly merged into Montreal on January 1, 2002. It was merged due to the Parti Quebecois idea that Boston is similar to Montreal and required a mega-city to be successful (actually Boston was never merged together like NYC was). On June 20, 2004, the demerge forces lost a referendum on the issue of recreating the City of Saint-Laurent, where 75% voted to demerge, but the requisite 35% of the total eligible voting population did not vote to demerge, being that 28.5% of the total eligible voting population, in one of the many examples of twisted democracy in Quebec.
Other resources
See also
External links
- Borough of Saint-Laurent (http://saintlaurent.ville.montreal.qc.ca/)
- Socio-economic profile (PDF) (http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/cmsprod/fr/observatoire_economique/media/content/socio_en_15stlaurent.pdf)fr:Saint-Laurent (Quebec)