Blainville, Quebec

Blainville is a city in the southwest of the Canadian province of Quebec. It is located in the administrative region of Laurentides, about 35 km north-west of Montreal. Blainville is part of the regional county municipality ( municipalité régional du comté ) Thérèse - De Blainville, has an area of ​​55.1 km ² and has 53 510 inhabitants ( 2011).

Geography

Blainville is located on the edge of the St. Lawrence lowlands in the region Rive- Nord, near the southern foothills of the Laurentian mountains. The terrain is mostly flat and wooded, it is dewatered in a southeasterly direction to the Rivière des Mille Îles out. Neighboring municipalities of Sainte- Anne -des- Plaines, north, Terrebonne and Lorraine in the east, Rosemère and Sainte -Thérèse in the south and Mirabel in the West.

History

Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France, rendered in 1683, the Mille Îles Seigneurie to Michel Sidrac Dugué, sieur de Boisbriand. 1718 Seigneurie was divided into two halves. The eastern part became the property of Suzanne Piot de Langloiserie, widow of Dugués son. 1743 named to the Seigneurie in Blainville order, in honor of Louis -Jean -Baptiste Celeron de Blainville, Langloiseries second husband. The previously uninhabited area was inhabited from about 1750. In 1845, the founding of the town of Sainte -Thérèse -de- Blainville was. This was awarded city status in 1968 and the new name Blainville. The city is a member of the administration union Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal since 2000.

Population

According to the 2011 census counted 53,510 inhabitants Blainville, which corresponds to a population density of 971.4 inh. / Km ². 89.5 % of the population reported French as the main language, the proportion of English was 3.2 %. As a bilingual ( French and English) is designated 0.9%, to other languages ​​and multiple responses accounted for 6.4%. Exclusively spoke French 49.0%. In 2001, 93.0 % of the population were Roman Catholic, 1.7 % Protestant, and 4.1 % non-denominational.

Traffic

The along the southwestern outskirts Autoroute 15, the highway from Montreal runs in the Laurentian mountains. The city's main street, the Boulevard Curé - Labelle, is part of the Route 117 from Montreal to Rouyn -Noranda. At the station of Blainville keep AMT commuter trains to Montreal and Saint- Jérôme. Several bus lines of the company CIT Laurentides Blainville connect with the surrounding communities.

Personalities

Postal codes in Canada North Shore (Montreal) Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec Statistics Canada
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