Bois-des-Filion, Quebec

Bois -des- Filion is a city in the southwest of the Canadian province of Quebec. It is located in the Montérégie administrative region, about 25 km north-west of Montreal. The administrative headquarters of the regional county municipality ( municipalité régional du comté ) Thérèse - De Blainville has an area of ​​4.28 km ² and has 9,485 inhabitants ( 2011).

Geography

Bois -des- Filion in the region Rive -Nord on the northern shore of the Rivière des Mille Îles, a tributary of the Ottawa River. The city area also includes two wooded river islands, Ile Garth and the Ile Lamothe. The terrain is slightly rising towards towards the northwest. Neighboring municipalities are in northern and eastern Terrebonne, Laval in the south and Lorraine on the west.

History

End of the 17th century, the current urban area on the border of two manors, Blainville lay to the west and Terrebonne in the east. As the first French settlers settled in 1684 the carpenter Antoine Feuillon down, which was granted the right to use a maple forest. Feuillon could neither read nor write, and therefore did not notice that the authorities his name often misspelled. As soon sat down by the form of the name Filion. Through the forest of Filion (French bois des Filion ) family led a much-used path, but only at the beginning of the 20th century, a significant settlement began to develop. 1925, the bridge over the Rivière des Mille Îles was built in 1949 by the founding of the Bois-des - Filion community. This was awarded in 1980 the city status. Since 2000, Bois -des- Filion is part of the purpose association Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal.

Population

According to the 2011 census counted Bois -des- Filion 9,485 inhabitants, which corresponds to a population density of 2216.1 inh. / Km ². 91.3 % of the population reported French as the main language, the proportion of English was 2.9 %. As a bilingual ( French and English) is designated 0.8 %, to other languages ​​and multiple responses accounted for 5.0%. Only 52.8 % spoke French. In 2001, 94.1 % of the population were Roman Catholic, 1.6% Protestant, and 3.3% non-denominational.

Traffic

The Route 335 connects Bois -des- Filion with the city of Laval, where it merges into Route 19. The river is bridged by the Pont Athanase - David. In southwest-northeast direction Autoroute 640 runs; this highway connects Bois -des- Filion with the other communities on the north shore of the Rivière des Mille Îles.