Terrebonne, Quebec
Terrebonne is a city in the southwest of the Canadian province of Quebec. It is located in the administrative region of Lanaudière, about 20 km north of the center of Montreal. Terrebonne is the administrative seat of the regional county municipality ( municipalité régional du comté ) Les Moulins, has an area of 154.74 km ² and has 106 322 inhabitants ( 2011). The current city was created in 2001 through the merger of three communities.
Geography
Terrebonne is located on the north shore of the Rivière des Mille Îles along a tributary of the Ottawa River. The town consists of three distinctly separate settlements. In the middle of the elongated city area, near the mouth of Rivière Mascouche, is the main settlement Terrebonne. Almost 15 km north- west of it is La Plaine, about 10 km east Lachenaie (opposite the mouth of the Rivière des Prairies ). In the Rivière des Mille Îles are several islands, including Ile Saint -Jean, Ile aux Vaches, Île Saint -Pierre and Ile des Moulins; with the exception of the Ile Saint -Jean they are largely uninhabited. The terrain is mostly flat and partly wooded.
Neighboring communities are Saint- Lin - Laurentides Saint -Roch -de- l'Achigan in the north, Mascouche in the northeast, Repentigny and Charlemagne in the East, Montreal in the Southwest, Laval in the south, Bois -des- Filion and Lorraine in the southwest, Blainville and Sainte -Anne -des- Plaines Sainte -Sophie in the west and the northwest.
History
André Daulier - Deslandes, Secretary General of the French West India Company, was awarded the 1673 Seigneurie Terrebonne. The name means " good earth " and refers to the fertility of the soil. After the Seigneurie was sold in 1681 to Louis Lecompte Dupré, gradually began the colonization. The first mill on the Île des Moulins took in 1710 to operate on 1731 followed by the first church. Joseph Masson, who is regarded as the first French-Canadian millionaire who acquired the Seigneurie in 1832 and promoted their economic development, including in particular the construction of the first bridge in 1834 contributed. A year after the abolition of the seigneurial regime in 1855 founded the town Terrebonne, which in 1860 received the city status. 1922 a major fire destroyed a part of downtown. Since the 1950s, Terrebonne developed into a major suburb of Montreal.
Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye, the richest merchant of New France, in 1670 acquired a portion of the Seigneurie Repentigny. Two years later, the eponymous settlement Lachenaie arose. However, the place name is also a reference to the many oak groves (French chênaies ). The founding of the parish was in 1683. During the Beaver Wars of the place was one of the most hotly contested and counted the peace treaty of 1701, less than half of the original inhabitants. Some importance was the place 1731 as the starting point of the Chemin du Roy. A year after the abolition of the feudal domain was founded in 1855 the municipality of Saint -Charles -de- Lachenaie. This was awarded in 1972 the town status and renamed itself in Lachenaie.
The settlement La Plaine was built around 1840 at the intersection of two country roads. Due to the continued growth of the settlement whose inhabitants called for the establishment of an independent municipality in 1912. This was done ten years later, by cession of territory of the municipalities of Saint- Lin, Mascouche and Sainte -Anne -des- Plaines. The new church was named Saint -Joachim -de -La Plaine, 1969, it changed its name to La Plaine.
On 1 January 2001 merged Lachenaie (then 20,000 inhabitants) and La Plaine ( 17,000 ) with Terrebonne ( 46,000 ). The city is a member of the administration union Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal
Population
According to the 2011 census counted 106 322 inhabitants Terrebonne, which corresponds to a population density of 687.1 inh. / Km ². 90.5 % of the population reported French as the main language, the proportion of English was 2.1 %. As a bilingual ( French and English) is designated 0.6 %, to other languages and multiple responses accounted for 6.8%. Only 59.4 % spoke French. In 2001, 93.5 % of the population were Roman Catholic, 1.9 % Protestant, and 3.9 % non-denominational.
Traffic
Two important traffic routes through Terrebonne are the Autoroute 25 and Route 125 Both connect Montreal with the northern Laurentian Mountains. On the northern outskirts of Terrebonne Autoroute crosses 640 This highway connects the cities of the Rivière de Mille Îles together and meets east of Lachenaie onto Autoroute 40 through Terrebonne runs the railway line Laval Trois- Rivières, on the only freight traffic is handled. 2014 go a AMT suburban line from Montreal to Mascouche in operation, with a railway station in Lachenaie. Several bus lines of the company CRT Lanaudière connect Terrebonne with surrounding communities as well as with Laval and Montreal.
Sister City
Since 1983 is twinned with Vitre in France.
Personalities
- Alphonse Desjardins (1841-1912), politician and businessman
- Thomas Nicholson Gibbs (1821-1883), politician
- Louis -François Rodrigue Masson - (1833-1903), politician
- Louis -Olivier Taillon (1840-1923), politician
Pictures
New Mill
Church of Saint- Louis-de -France
Collège Saint- Sacrement
Former Anglican Church of St. Michael