See also: Saint-Constant (homonymy)

Saint-Constant is a city in the regional Municipalité of county of Roussillon in Montérégie with the Quebec (Canada). The inhabitants of Saint-Constant name Constantins. The city is located on southern bank of the Fleuve the St. Lawrence vis-a-vis Montreal. The population of the city was estimated at 24.433 citizens in 2005. Typical city of suburbs, it is especially residential. The majority of the active population works in Montreal. The town of Constant Saint is an ideal city for the wind mills.

History

The establishment of the first colonists is carried out in 1725 by the opening of the Saint-Pierre concession. The mission of the Coast Saint-Pierre (the first name of the parish) begins in 1750 by construction from a church and the opening, two parochial years later, registers. The Saint-Pierre row was the central concession of the seigniory of Sault-Saint-Louis and was prolonged in the seigniory of LaSalle. In 1815, the Saint-Pierre row carried the nickname “Black Cattle Road”, that is to say the road of the traffickers of cattle of the State of New York with Montreal. Located at the center of the old county the Meadow, the village of Saint-Constant will be the single place of voting of 1829 to 1841. Residents will be pilot or take share with the rebellions of 1837-1838.

The local administrative structures will be born with Saint-Constant in 1845 by the introduction of the municipality of parish and the school commission. However, the vast territory of the parish of Saint-Constant was already subdivided in favor of Saint-Remi (1840), Saint-Edouard (1833), and Saint-Isidore (1833). This movement will continue with Saint-Michel (1854), Saint-Mathieu (1919) and Holy-Therese-of-Delson (1932).

Saint-constant will enter modernity by the construction of the railroads of CN and the CP the last quarter of the 19th century. The electrification of the village will be done about 1918 and rural electrification will finish in 1939. The street Saint-Pierre will be prolonged rises of the Birches and Holy-Catherine, in direction of the boulevard 9C (road 132), about 1950. Since the Fifties, the rise of domiciliary construction makes it possible Saint-Constant to obtain the statute of city in 1973.

From which does the name come from Saint-Constant?

At the time of the blessing of the church built by the inhabitants of the Saint-Pierre Coast in 1750, one was to find a name with the new parish. Bishop and lords agreed to name it Saint-Constant in order to commemorate the memory of Constant the Merchant of Lignery, father of the priest of the parish close to the Nativity-of-the-Holy-Virgin (Laprairie of Magdeleine). This priest, Jacques the Merchant of Lignery, appreciated of all his parishioners, was then the spiritual father of all the inhabitants of a broad territory which included the most distant concessions, like those of Saint-Constant and Saint-Philippe.

Source: Center of Montreal of the Public records of Quebec

Mayors

Municipal commission of Quebec (2005 -…)

Gilles Pip (2005 - 2007) On Wednesday, September 26, 2007, the Superior court of Quebec cancels the results of the municipal election of the town of Saint-Constant. The mayor Gilles Pip like five city council men, belonging to the Pip team, are relieved for electoral expenditure exceeding of 42% the allowed limit.

Daniel Ashby (- 2005)

Municipalities bordering

Sources

• Repertory of the municipalities of Quebec
• Commission of toponymy of Quebec
• municipal Businesses and areas - regional charts

External bonds

• Town of Saint-Constant

• Canadian railway Museum