Vaudreuil-Dorion is a Ville located in the county of Vaudreuil-Soulanges at the Quebec, located in the administrative area of the Montérégie. It is the fruit of a fusion between the old towns of Vaudreuil and Dorion, on March 16th 1994. Its inhabitants are the Vaudreuillois (be) - Dorionnais (be)

Geography

The town of Vaudreuil-Dorion is located at approximately 30 km in the west Montreal, on banks of the lake of the two Mountains (including/understanding the handle of Vaudreuil) and of bay of Vaudreuil, which belongs to the Rivière of Outaouais. The city includes/understands a multitude of small islands (of which some are inhabited) halfway located between its territory and the islands Perrot and of Montreal. With a surface of 72.47 km ², it is one of the five greater municipalities of Quebec.

History

At the end of the 17th century, the whole of the area in the west of the island of Montreal was an important center of draft of the fur. November 23rd, 1702, the governor Louis-Hector de Callière grants a Seigneurie to Philippe de Rigaud of Vaudreuil, then governor of Montreal and another, close, with his brother-in-law Joybert de Soulanges. In 1725, Vaudreuil, then general governor of the News-France, deposits an enumeration of its seigniory, in which it enumerates 38 inhabitants who would live there before dying in December of the same year. The area enters then a phase of decline, mainly due to its geographical distance of the agricultural area of Montreal. Towards 1742, the shift in population ends up reaching Vaudreuil: the area then makes moderate demographic great strides. In 1765, after the Conquest and the rendering of Montreal in September 1760, the population of Vaudreuil reaches 381 inhabitants. Consequently, agriculture gradually replaces the draft of furs like dominant economic activity. Starting from 1783 begins construction from the Église Saint-Michel of Vaudreuil, which will spread out until in 1789. Several years later, on July 14th, 1845 takes place the first assembly of the municipal council of the Paroisse of Vaudreuil. Construction, in 1853, of the railroad Grand Trunk (Canadian National) will be the pillar which will give rise to the town of Dorion (initially named Vaudreuil-Station because the two stations of Vaudreuil are in Dorion). In 1891, Dorion became officially a village. July 10th, 1963, the parish of Vaudreuil became the town of Vaudreuil. Then, on March 16th, 1994, the two municipalities are amalgamated to form the current town of Vaudreuil-Dorion.

The name Vaudreuil-Dorion comes from old the governor of the News-France, Philippe de Rigaud of Vaudreuil, as well as Sir Antoine-Aime Dorion, judge as a chief of the Cour of the Bench of the Queen of Quebec.

In 2004, the city celebrated its 10th birthday. For a few years, the municipality has developed the agricultural land located at the center of its territory. Many residential projects were born there in addition to the innumerable trade at large surface, distributed in a commercial pole located in the axis of the new Felix-Leclerc boulevard. Those do not achieve the unanimity of the citizens, who see the principal artery of the city, the avenue Saint-Charles, increasingly blocked by a very dense motor vehicle traffic at the rush hour. This emergence of trade at large surface decrease the commercial importance of the avenue Saint-Charles, where the local small shopkeepers are done increasingly rare.

This fast development causes many nuisances, that it is on the level of the protection of the historic sites that environment. Thus, the Société of safeguard of the memory of Felix Leclerc in Vaudreuil-Dorion was created on the initiative of citizens anxious to preserve the vestiges of the life of the singer at Vaudreuil-Dorion. The organization acquired the house where the singer resided on October 29th, 2006 and hopes to make it available to the public in 2008.

Events

October 7th, 1966, a bus filled of teenagers ran in direction of the town of Hudson, when it was violently struck by a train, killing 19 young people and by wounding 24 others. The driver did not survive the accident. The collision took place with the junction between the rail of the Canadian National (CN) and the current street Saint-Charles. Witnesses said to have seen children playing with the barriers little time before the arrival of the goods train. The bus, decree with the barrier, awaited the passage of a train coming from the west; once this one passed, it engaged on the way without seeing the train coming from the east. The tragedy made the cuff throughout the world: following that, a viaduct was built in order to make safe the crossing. The precise cause of the accident is always ignored and this, several years after the drama. A stone commemorative of this tragedy was set up on the site of the secondary school of the City-of-Youths (in the past secondary school Vaudreuil) a few years ago.

Economy

It is in Dorion in 1991 that the Boulangerie First Harvest was founded. The products Cake X, Pastry making S and Viennoiserie S, are always prepared there then distributed in its various branches through the province.

Since May 18th, 2005, the city is equipped with a joint transport system by minibus (CIT Peninsula). It is connected to the downtown area of Montreal by the Dorion line/Rigaud of the line, suburban trains on which it has two stations, are those of Vaudreuil and Dorion. The city is crossed by two major road axes, the Autoroute 40 in north (Transcanadienne) and the Autoroute 20 in the east, like by the railroads of the the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian National.

Culture and communications

The city has some historical monuments and bâtments the such church Saint-Michel, the Maison Trestler or the Maison Valois (maintaining the House of Arts and the Culture). It shelters the regional Museum of Vaudreuil-Soulanges and current the secondary school of the City-of-Youths, school which was the cradle of the reform of education in Quebec, in the Années 1960.

Since 1981, date on which the towns of Vaudreuil and Dorion rented a room common to the Corporation of the City of the Young people , the city has its public library. In 1993, vis-a-vis the exiguity of the buildings, the city decides to build a building to shelter the new library, inaugurated in August 1995. Since December 10th, 1998, the residents of the city have an free access to Internet and the collections of the library, the adoption of the Québécois Politique of the reading and book .

During the Years 1950 and 1960, the large poet Felix Leclerc resided at Vaudreuil. One can see always there two of the three houses which he lived, all located on the way of the Handle, in edge of the Lac of the Two-Mountains. One among it was repurchased besides by the town of Vaudreuil-Dorion recently, while the other belongs to a private individual.

Municipalities bordering

Sources

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

External bonds

• Official site of Vaudreuil-Dorion
• Chart Google

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