Longueuil

See also: Longueuil (homonymy)

Longueuil is a Québécois city Canada, on southern bank of the Fleuve the St. Lawrence, in the southern suburbs of Montreal.

Geography

Longueuil has a surface of 116 square kilometers. The city is served by the network of subway of Montreal.

History

The name of the city comes from the name of a village close to Dieppe in Normandy from where Charles Moyne (1626 - 1685), lord of Longueuil in 1657, comes.

It is by error that the city was named Longueuil. That should have been Longueil.

The village of Longueuil was officially created in 1848, which will become a city in a 1874 then city in 1920. It amalgamated with the town of Montreal-South in 1961 and kept its name. It still kept this name in 1969 after its fusion with Ville Jacques-Cartier. It took again its statute of city thereafter.

A new fusion took place on January 1st, 2002 implying the city of the same name and the towns of Boucherville, Brossard, Greenfield Park, LeMoyne, Saint-Bruno-with-Montarville, Saint-Hubert and Saint-Lambert. January 1st, 2006, the towns of Boucherville, Brossard, Saint-Lambert and Saint-Bruno-with-Montarville were detached again.

Dated May 10th, 2004, Douglas Robert Watt, Herald of Canada, conceded the heraldic emblems of the Town of Longueuil. The armorial bearings of Longueuil are described as follows: of azure with three gold pinks, the bent chief of mouths charged with a crescent alongside with two stars, the gold whole.

Administration

The current city, following the municipal défusions, is now made up of the district of the Old man-Longueuil (the old town of Longueuil), of that of Saint-Hubert and Greenfield Park. The section of the ex-city of LeMoyne now makes integral part of the district of the Old man-Longueuil. The four other cities, is Boucherville, Brossard, Saint-Bruno-of-Montarville and Saint-Lambert left Longueuil dated January 1st, 2006. These municipalities now form part of the Council of agglomeration where sit of the representatives of these various cities of the agglomeration of Longueuil. Thus, the défusionnées cities have still their word to say in what it remains of these various components of the agglomeration of Longueuil. It should be noted that a myriad of services are provided by Longueuil to the other municipalities in order to avoid the dismantling of the current system. For example, the Grid system of Longueuil will keep its current name.

Here are some trade of 1930 to 1960 http://marigot.ca/bms/commerces.htm

Demography

Ethnic origins of the citizens of the districts (to be noted, this table presents the demographic statistics of the town of Longueuil amalgamated. Thus, data of the following cities: Saint-lambert, Brossard, Boucherville and Saint-Bruno-of-Montarville should not be any more taken into account at the time of the statistical studies carried out after the défusions of January 1st, 2006.

Language

Ethnic membership

Schools

Higher learning

CÉGEP S

technical and professional Schools

  • College TDCI-Delta
  • Professional training center Pierre-Dupuy
  • College Information-Technique

University campuses

  • Campus of the University of Montreal
  • Campus of the University from Quebec in Montreal (UQAM)
  • Campus of the University of Sherbrooke

Secondary schools

French-speaking

  • College Charles-LeMoyne
  • French College
  • College Our-Lady-of-Doors
  • secondary School Andre-Laurendeau
  • secondary School Gerard-Filion
  • International secondary School St-Edmond
  • secondary School Jacques-Rousseau
  • secondary School Mgr-A.M. - Relative
  • Participative secondary School the secondary Agora
  • School St-Jean-Baptist
  • Center of the adults 16-18ans (ECA)

Anglophone

  • secondary School Regional Centennial
  • secondary School Regional Heritage (in the past MacDonald-Cartier)

Economy

Transport

  • Highways 10, 15, 20,25 and 30
  • Roads 112,116,132 and 134
  • Bridge Jacques-Cartier; bridge Champlain; bridge Victoria; Bridge-tunnel Louis-Hippolyte-Lafontaine
  • Terminus of Longueuil: by the station Longueuil-University-with-Sherbrooke, access to the network of the subway of Montreal (STM)
  • Public transport: partly ensured by the Network of the transport of Longueuil (RTL)
  • Airport of Saint-Hubert de Longueuil
  • Train: Line Montreal/Mount-Saint-Hilaire by the metropolitan Agency of transport

Administration

Health

Spirituality

  • Diocese Saint-Jean-Longueuil
  • Cocathédrale Saint-Antoine-with-Padoue
  • Church New Life of Longueuil

Media

  • Mail of the South, free weekly magazine distributed in all the agglomeration of Longueuil
  • Hebdos montérégiens, family of weekly magazines distributed in Montérégie, whose agglomeration of Longueuil
  • Not Southern, newspaper which appears at the two weeks and which is distributed on the territory of Longueuil
  • CHAA 103,3 FM, Community radio station which serves Longueuil and its area

Famous characters

Municipalities bordering

External bonds

  • Town of Longueuil
  • historical and cultural Company of the Backwater
  • Company of history of Longueuil
  • Longueuil and the Bank-South before the bridge Jacques-Cartier

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